colorcast
Americannoun
verb (used with or without object)
Etymology
Origin of colorcast
First recorded in 1945–50; color + (broad)cast
Example Sentences
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Adman Blake Johnson of Kenyon & Eckhardt reported that the commercials, which were colorcast, cost five times more than usual and were rehearsed for three days instead of the customary few hours.
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NBC will colorcast the convention proceedings from start to finish with Huntley, Brinkley, McGee, Vanocur, Chancellor and Newman reporting; CBS will do the same, with Cronkite leading Analysts Mudd and Sevareid, Reporters Wallace and Reasoner.
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And off prime time, NBC will continue to colorcast the Johnny Carson Show and at least 18 daytime hours each week.
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NBC began the sixth year of its outstanding TV Opera series with a capable colorcast of Mozart's Abduction from the Seraglio; it did even better with the returning cultural show, March of Medicine.
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NBC showed a satisfying colorcast of the opera Carmen to hundreds of invited guests in Manhattan, and last week followed it with the first closed-circuit broadcast from New York to Hollywood, where a group of moviemen were unhappily impressed by the vivid picture and surprisingly fine texture of color TV.
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