newscast

[ nooz-kast, -kahst, nyooz- ]

noun

1. a broadcast of news news on radio or television.

newscast

/ ˈnjuːzˌkɑːst /

noun

1. a radio or television broadcast of the news

Derived Forms

• ˈnewsˌcaster, noun

Other Words From

• newscaster noun
• newscasting noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of newscast¹

First recorded in 1925–30; news + (broad)cast

Word History and Origins

Origin of newscast¹

C20: from news + ( broad ) cast

Example Sentences

Alexander later said on a newscast that he also received a call from Guilfoyle that same evening.

From ProPublica

By mid-November, that number had grown steadily to 13% while driving economic issues to absorb almost a quarter of newscasts.

From Time

What we have to do is build a great newscast… and then eventually people will come to that or they won’t.

From The Daily Beast

The most dramatic and violent events were described in newspapers and on newscasts in sentences ending with the words according to police.

From Time

While at Ohio State University, he scored a job as a writer and producer at one of the three networks that had a 15-minute newscast.

From Washington Post

World News is the only evening newscast to improve on its news demo performance from the previous season compared to NBC and CBS.

From The Daily Beast

Winstead insisted that the show would be a newscast written by comedians.

From The Daily Beast

On it, a newscast showed images from ongoing clashes in Alexandria, in which the Muslim Brotherhood offices had been torched.

From The Daily Beast

“I mean, we started doing puppet news,” the staffer said, recalling a video feature in which puppets anchored a fake newscast.

From The Daily Beast

A member of Friends of Forrest, Todd Kiscaden, told a local TV newscast that he thinks Forrest was a hero.

From The Daily Beast

The newscast stopped and a commercial called the attention of listeners to the virtues of an anti-allergy pill.

From Project Gutenberg

So it was that I caught an item in a newscast, probably unheard by most, or smiled aside, if heard.

From Project Gutenberg

Well, this was brought out in the newscast at the time of his arrest.

From Project Gutenberg

"We interrupt the program for an important newscast of a sensational development in the Salgath affair," he said.

From Project Gutenberg

But there isn't a word of truth in that statement you just heard on the Herald-Guardian newscast.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• advertisement
• announcement
• performance
• program
• publication
• show
• simulcast
• transmission