broadcaster
Americannoun
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broadcasters
plural
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a person or thing that broadcasts.
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a person or organization, as a network or station, that broadcasts radio or television programs.
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Etymology
Origin of broadcaster
Explanation
A person whose job involves speaking on television, the radio, or online is a broadcaster. Your favorite TV meteorologist is a broadcaster, and so is the DJ with the jazz show your grandpa loves. A broadcaster is someone who broadcasts, or transmits information. This can mean reading the evening news for an internet streaming station or narrating a high school basketball game for a local radio station. Another meaning of broadcast is "scatter seed widely," and for a farmer, a broadcaster is a machine (or person) that does the job. The seed meaning is older; the media definition comes from the idea of spreading information widely.
Example Sentences
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The broadcaster additionally cited Americans’ continuous deluges of supportive comments when it asked the regulatory agency, in June, to drop its license order.
From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2026
For the first time since beating his cancer into remission, radio play-by-play broadcaster Charley Steiner called a complete game for the Dodgers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
Residents should "move away from the shore, either by going more than two kilometres inland or by moving up into hilly areas more than 10 meters high," he told local broadcaster Kompas TV.
From Barron's ● Aug. 15, 2026
He specialises in space flight and astronomy and presented BBC's live webcast from Zambia in 2001 and was also in the Faroe Islands for the broadcaster in 2015.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
The broadcaster clearly had never met Mrs. Sharpe.
From "Chasing Vermeer" by Blue Balliett
"Everybody sees the uniqueness of The Hundred, and that's one of the big appeals to broadcasters," he adds.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
Radio Caroline noted Ofcom received only two complaints about the incident and said the station is "100% volunteer-led" without the resources of larger broadcasters.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
“Eliminating the cap does not free local broadcasters from economic pressure, it just changes who is doing the squeezing,” Gomez said in a statement issued ahead of the vote.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
“Repealing the national cap will provide essential relief for local broadcasters by restoring a healthy counterbalance to the growing leverage of national programmers,” Carr said at the meeting.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
Persuasive communication is no longer the preserve of professionals—be they politicians, broadcasters, or advertisers.
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
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