broadcaster
Americannoun
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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.
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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It’s time to reveal memories, laughs and crazy times from Randy Rosenbloom’s 55 years as a TV/radio broadcaster in Los Angeles.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 19, 2026
A federal judge halted the $6.2 billion merger of television station giants Nexstar Media Group and Tegna after eight states and satellite broadcaster DirecTV sued to block the deal on antitrust grounds.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 18, 2026
Per the BBC, oil and gas tanker companies aren’t rushing to run through the strait, telling the broadcaster that the news “doesn’t change anything.”
From Slate • Apr. 17, 2026
It had been announced in January that the broadcaster had been diagnosed with cancer and was unable to walk.
From BBC • Apr. 17, 2026
That’s what this woman does, this mad American broadcaster, though her wages get paid by the Nazi Minister of Propaganda in Berlin—she walks hold as brass into prisons and prison camps and finds people.
From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein
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