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▪ I. telecast, n. orig. U.S.|ˈtɛlɪkɑːst, -æ-|
[f. tele- + broadcast n.]
The action or an act of broadcasting by television; a television broadcast or programme.
1937Atlantic Monthly CLIX. 531/2 He can be assured that any receiver he buys will give him the telecasts sent out by all the major systems of transmission. 1951M. Ehrlich Big Eye i. 11 The Telecast Building way downtown. 1954‘J. Christopher’ 22nd Cent. 21 Within three hours of the Atomics telecast there were riotous assemblies in Canberra. 1961G. Millerson Technique Television Production iii. 32 The forms of perspective-distortion introduced by narrow-angle lenses are a familiar feature in telecasts where the camera has to be positioned some way from the subject. 1978J. Irving World according to Garp xvi. 349 Except for the fact that there had been no nudity in the telecast, the event was an X-rated soap opera from start to finish. 1980Daily Tel. 12 July 5/1 The Minister also said in a telecast that value-added tax would be applied to more products.
▪ II. telecast, v. orig. U.S.|ˈtɛlɪkɑːst, -æ-|
[f. tele- + broadcast v. 3: cf. prec.]
trans. To broadcast by television.
1940Topeka (Kansas) Daily Capital 25 Mar. 1/4 Easter Services..were telecast today. 1949R. Graves Seven Days in New Crete iv. 44 The garish, raucous, three-dimensioned cartoon-comedies telecast every hour in mid-air over the harbour. 1952Economist 26 July 228/1 Old films..are telecast over 49 stations. 1968Globe & Mail (Toronto) 13 Jan. 26/3 In Saint Joan (telecast last month) I searched through myself for parts I could put into Joan. 1978G. Vidal Kalki viii. 182 Since the networks refused to telecast the Kalki–Arlene Wagstaff interview, Giles was obliged to buy thirty minutes of prime-time television.
So ˈtelecasting vbl. n. and attrib. or as ppl. a.; ˈtelecaster, one who broadcasts on television.
1937Electronics Sept. 13/1 (caption) ‘Telecasting’ in Great Britain. 1940A. H. Morton in Porterfield & Reynolds We present Television i. 47 Television standards in the United States must be uniformly adopted by all telecasters. 1945F. Brown Angels & Spaceships (1955) 90 Every major broadcasting and telecasting station in the world has gone off the air. Ibid. 92 With telecasting suspended there were no pictures on their screens. 1951M. Ehrlich Big Eye i. 26 News of the world!..Here is your telecaster—Arthur Morrow! 1957Observer 25 Aug. 11/1 This was a commendable piece of telecasting, though a military exercise unopposed..is always a bit of an anticlimax. 1974Times 8 Jan. 13/7 The 10.30 shut-down has shortened the telecasting day. |