Vol. 10 · Portmanteaus ·Mid-century: TV and science ·1948
Simulcast
simultaneous broadcast
- Meaning
- A programme broadcast simultaneously on multiple channels or media.
- Source words
- simultaneous + broadcast
- Coined by
- unknown
- Year
- 1948
Background
First recorded in US radio-and-television trade press. Originally described the early practice of sending identical audio on AM radio and the new FM band at once; later stretched to any multi-channel simultaneous transmission.
Mid-century: TV and science
Two engines dominated: television (sitcom, televangelist) and post-war big science (pulsar, transistor). Many mid-century coinages came from scientific style sheets and industry journals.
Two words, one coinage.
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