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narrowcast

Syllabification: (nar·row·cast)
Pronunciation: /ˈnarōˌkast/
Definition of narrowcast

verb (past and past participle narrowcast or narrowcasted)

[no object]
  • transmit a television program, especially by cable, or otherwise disseminate information, to a comparatively small audience defined by special interest or geographical location:the channel is licensed to narrowcast only to nondomestic outlets (as noun narrowcasting)one journal has avoided the narrowcasting that seems to enslave so many mainstream magazines

noun

  • transmission by narrowcasting:Colorado women’s volleyball narrowcasts [as modifier]:narrowcast specialty channels

Derivatives

narrowcaster

noun

Origin:

1930s: back-formation from narrowcasting, on the pattern of broadcasting

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