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rediffusion Broadcasting.|riːdɪˈfjuːʒən|
[re- 5 a.]
a. The dissemination, broadcasting, or rebroadcasting of a programme by (a) reproduction on loudspeakers and screens in public places, (b) transmission by a broadcasting company which was not responsible for making it, or (c) publication by other media of items from a radio or television programme.
1927Observer 13 Nov. 19/5 The best programmes of the British service will be available for re-diffusion throughout the Continent as well as throughout the Empire and the rest of the world. 1933B.B.C. Year-bk. 1934 28 It was found possible to apply the [Copyright] Act..to public loud⁓speaker ‘rediffusion’. 1948Daily Tel. 9 June 6/5 The Association for the Protection of Copyright in Sport set out to secure certain safeguards, particularly against general ‘rediffusion’ of television on big cinema screens. 1950Sport 7–11 Apr. 22/4 Sporting events will, I think, be among the most popular types of rediffusion. 1967W. Soyinka Kongi's Harvest 2 Who but a lunatic Will bandy words with boxes With government rediffusion sets Which talk and talk and never Take a lone word in reply.
b. spec. The distribution of radio or television transmissions within a community by cable from a single receiver.
1935Nature 2 Feb. 196/1 ‘Rediffusion’ is a method of distributing a broadcast programme over an independent line network to a number of subscribers. 1968Bethell & Burg tr. Solzhenitsyn's Cancer Ward I. xix. 295 Vadim..was happily surprised to discover there was no radio... (The reason for this omission was that for years they had been planning to move the clinic into better-equipped quarters, and the new place..was going to be wired with rediffusion points throughout.) 1975C. Stuart in J. Reith Diaries ii. 179 Wireless or relay exchange (also called rediffusion) was the practice of wiring broadcast programmes to individual subscribers by commercial companies operating under licence from the Post Office. |