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▪ I. rebroadcast, v.|riː-|
[re- 5 a.]
trans. To broadcast again; spec. to broadcast (a programme received from another station).
1923Daily Mail 14 Aug. 5/3 A special orchestral concert..will be relayed to all the broadcasting stations in Britain, and thence be re-broadcast by them on their own particular wave-lengths. 1939Sun (Baltimore) 9 Feb. 1/2 Several hours after the vessel's first distress call, she rebroadcast her SOS appeal. 1948John o' London's Weekly 10 Dec. 598/3 The difficulty in receiving the Scottish station makes it unlikely that more than a handful of Scott's English admirers will be able to judge how Waverley sounds on the air, but perhaps the serial will be re-broadcast later on another wavelength. 1951A. C. Clarke Sands of Mars viii. 94 It was a live programme, beamed to Mars..picked up and rebroadcast. 1965Economist 9 Oct. 152/3 Plays supplied by the networks to their provincial affiliates, and already censored in Madrid, must be recensored before being rebroadcast. 1974P. Gzowski This Country 12/2 What I said live to the Maritimes was recorded in Toronto and rebroadcast an hour later, then recorded in Winnipeg and so on.
Hence reˈbroadcast ppl. a., reˈbroadcasting vbl. n.; also reˈbroadcaster, a station that rebroadcasts material received from elsewhere.
1956Nature 10 Mar. 451/2 There are fuller accounts of the External Services and of the re-broadcasting of the B.B.C. programmes throughout the world. 1957BBC Handbk. 38 Programmes of this kind may be conveyed to the rebroadcaster either by short-wave transmission or as recordings by sea or airmail. 1962Ibid. 102 The local station may record the BBC transmission for rebroadcasting later. 1969Listener 17 July 91/3 The rebroadcast Morals and Medicine debate on abortion was a sterilised, factual affair by comparison. 1973Ibid. 13 Sept. 348/3 No one could tell which programmes might one day be required..for rebroadcasting. 1974BBC Handbk. 273/1 Every programme chosen for distribution to re-broadcasters is of the highest quality.
▪ II. reˈbroadcast, n.|riː-|
[f. the vb.]
A repeat broadcast, esp. one of a programme received from another station; also, the action of broadcasting again.
1927Observer 24 July 4/5 Rebroadcasts can be made on both sides of the Atlantic and..though they are interesting the quality is usually painful and always bad. 1939Sun (Baltimore) 9 May 2/4 Thousands of British subjects heard the message as broadcast by the French stations or picked up through the short-wave rebroadcast from the United States. 1940Ibid. 23 Feb. 1/4 Explaining the experiment, involving receipt of National Broadcasting Company programs from New York city by a receiver 130 miles distant, and simultaneous rebroadcast by Station W2XB, Dr. Baker said [etc.]. 1943R. Chandler High Window x. 79 This ball game is a studio re-broadcast. 1963Guardian 19 Apr. 12/2 The National Aeronautics and Space Administration had promised to allow some broadcasts direct from the capsule as well as the rebroadcast of television tapes. 1965Economist 9 Oct. 152/2 Even [Spanish] commercials taped for rebroadcast day after day must be vetted daily. 1974Radio Times 14 Mar. 30/3 Re-broadcasts of programmes from a fortnightly series on the arts. |