broadcast area
- noun
- /ˈbrɔːdˌkæst ˈɛəriə/
- Specialized
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área de transmisión
- It aired from one to three, and he imagined he was the only man over forty in the whole broadcast area up and listening to sex.
Examples
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I live outside of the Eagles broadcast area now, so if the game isn't on at my house, I go down to South Jersey to watch the games at my family's house.
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The new radio station greatly expanded its broadcast area, reaching more listeners.
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Now, whether the broadcast area picked it up or not is another question.
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Either way, you will want to have proxy servers and ways to stream your programming while you're off the air (if those services are available in your broadcast area).
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Many viewers in the broadcast area enjoyed the special event last night.
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Due to technical issues, some residents in the broadcast area missed the live show.
How Wide
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'the geographic region over which a radio or television transmission can be received' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'broadcast' (to transmit) with 'area' (region). This noun phrase follows a common compounding/modification pattern (think 'coverage area' or 'transmission area') that is cross-linguistically familiar, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
The noun broadcast area comes from the picture of a radio or TV station sending a broadcast like waves from a tower across a wide area. So the broadcast area is the part of the land where the signal can be 'received', and people outside it cannot 'tune in'.