broadcasting station
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3.8
- noun
- /ˈbrɔːdˌkæstɪŋ ˈsteɪʃən/
:
estación de radiodifusión
- Listeners can tune into the local broadcasting station to hear the latest news.
- a public broadcasting station
Examples
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Congress's basic concern was to assure the continued financial viability of the local over-the-air broadcasting stations that serve the 40 percent of the American public that do not subscribe to cable television.
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With their money, they took control of the world media, news agencies, the press, publishing houses, broadcasting stations, and others.
Blog text (17) -
Why don't you all go to the broadcasting station?
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Stay tuned to the broadcasting stations in your local area for this list of rescue stations.
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I sincerely hope you get a job fast, because any broadcasting station should be begging you to work for them.
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By the mid-1920s, there were eleven commercial and two state broadcasting stations.
Academic text (1993) -
The rights to use the videos were granted to the public broadcasting stations by WTTW of Chicago and Bill Kurtis Productions, coproducers of the series.
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In FY 2010 (information available to date), the CPB subsidies amounted to only 15 percent of public broadcasting stations' total funding.
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The media imperialism position investigates the structural links between Mexican broadcasting stations and foreign networks and attempts to account for the growing influence of North American radio program models on Mexican broadcasters.
Academic text (1993) -
Protect noncommercial educational broadcasting stations from being coerced, as a result of federal financing, into becoming vehicles for government propaganda or the objects of governmental influence; and, second, to keep these stations from becoming convenient targets for capture by private interest groups wishing to express their own partisan viewpoints.
Academic text (1996)
Synonyms
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1.6
A television station that shows programs like news
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1.3
A place that makes and sends shows you hear on radio or online, like news and music
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1.4
A company that makes and broadcasts TV programs for people to watch
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1.4
A company that makes and sends video programs for people to watch at home
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1.1
A television station and the programs it shows
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2.1
A TV station that shows programs on one number
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3.1
A place that sends radio or TV programs to many people
How Wide
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'broadcasting' (sending audio/video to a large audience) combined with 'station' (a place or channel for broadcasts) yields a facility that broadcasts programs. This transparent noun–noun composition is common across languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents can readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
The phrase broadcasting station comes from an old farming word broadcast, which meant to throw or 'spread' seeds by hand over a wide area, and station, which means a 'place'. So a broadcasting station is the 'place' that 'sends out' radio or TV programs to many people.