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单词 narrowcast
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Definition of narrowcast in English:

narrowcast

verbnarrowcasted ˈnarə(ʊ)kɑːstˈnɛroʊˌkæst
[no object]
  • Transmit a television programme, especially by cable, or otherwise disseminate information, to a comparatively localized or specialist audience.

    the channel narrowcasts to over 5,800 pubs and clubs
    Example sentencesExamples
    • In the near future, candidates will face the ultimate narrowcasting society.
    • We're narrowcasting; there's any number of simultaneous streams we can send out to homes.
    • Cable television and the prospects of its narrowcasting have also played an important role, making the three networks truly dinosaurs and largely the buffoons of fettered broadcasting.
    • The set-up is one of the longest-running examples of an in-store media network, sometimes referred to as narrowcasting, or digital advertising networks.
    • Now there are hundreds of channels narrowcasting to every conceivable interest.
    • Apparently the implications for broadcasting and narrowcasting, for social glue and public ethos, are enormous.
    • Some people call it niche retailing while others refer to it more colourfully as narrowcasting.
    • For some Canadian independent labels, narrowcasting - by genre and even by locale - has taken them right around the world.
    • That means developing contact lists of the public, broken down per marginal electorate; broken down per issue - so that they can narrowcast.
    • And advertisers might be able to narrowcast commercials made specifically for a particular type of viewer.
    • Some banks narrowcast ads for other products on their ATM screens while you wait for your cash.
    • It doesn't just understand one of the fundamental of that what the web is incredibly good at, narrowcasting.
    • But there's an alternative role for Internet Protocol television, or IPTV: narrowcasting.
    • In this sense, it is closer to narrowcasting than to broadcasting even while maintaining the possibility of broadcasting.
    • I feel like I've had a college course education in narrowcasting and building a Web presence.
    • Most important, direct-mail consultants are in the business of narrowcasting rather than broadcasting.
    • Broadcasting has turned into narrowcasting now, especially in the context of FM.
    • When I was a kid, the big, bold promise of cable TV was that there would be narrowcasting.
    • The company has an almost fetishistic attachment to narrowcasting.
    • If there was an emerging trend it was about narrowcasting to specific audiences based on particular issues or demographics relevant to these audiences.
noun ˈnarə(ʊ)kɑːstˈnɛroʊˌkæst
mass noun
  • Transmission by narrowcasting.

    as modifier dozens of narrowcast niche channels
    Example sentencesExamples
    • It can also use existing broadcast infrastructure, so it needs neither the infrastructure of narrowcast nor the construction of new broadcast infrastructure.
    • Here, the news isn't just partisan but gleefully partisan: conservative, red-in-the-face news narrowcast to the red states.
    • One of the significant cultural aspects of the Internet is that, given its narrowcast properties, it's been able to open up the discussion.
    • ‘Although cable can't hit this narrowcast level it can complement the message by providing more details via television,’ he added.
    • With sufficient bandwidth could IP spell the end of traditional broadcast video delivery and become strictly videostreaming or mediastreaming to the end goal of personal narrowcasts?

Derivatives

  • narrowcaster

  • noun
    • He was a broadcaster, not a narrowcaster.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The Internet is the first communication tool that allows every user to be a sender, receiver, narrowcaster and broadcaster in a global sphere.
      • As a narrowcaster, you can spread the information and create more critical mass.
      • We describe several scenarios where a system based on the model enables novel interaction between the narrowcaster and consumer.
      • So the TV advertising folks are literally broadcasters, and the direct mail folks are narrowcasters.

Origin

1930s: back-formation from narrowcasting, on the pattern of broadcasting.

 
 

Definition of narrowcast in US English:

narrowcast

verbˈnerōˌkastˈnɛroʊˌkæst
[no object]
  • Transmit a television program, especially by cable, or otherwise disseminate information, to a comparatively small audience defined by special interest or geographical location.

    the channel is licensed to narrowcast only to nondomestic outlets
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The company has an almost fetishistic attachment to narrowcasting.
    • Broadcasting has turned into narrowcasting now, especially in the context of FM.
    • That means developing contact lists of the public, broken down per marginal electorate; broken down per issue - so that they can narrowcast.
    • For some Canadian independent labels, narrowcasting - by genre and even by locale - has taken them right around the world.
    • I feel like I've had a college course education in narrowcasting and building a Web presence.
    • Some people call it niche retailing while others refer to it more colourfully as narrowcasting.
    • If there was an emerging trend it was about narrowcasting to specific audiences based on particular issues or demographics relevant to these audiences.
    • Apparently the implications for broadcasting and narrowcasting, for social glue and public ethos, are enormous.
    • In this sense, it is closer to narrowcasting than to broadcasting even while maintaining the possibility of broadcasting.
    • But there's an alternative role for Internet Protocol television, or IPTV: narrowcasting.
    • We're narrowcasting; there's any number of simultaneous streams we can send out to homes.
    • Most important, direct-mail consultants are in the business of narrowcasting rather than broadcasting.
    • Now there are hundreds of channels narrowcasting to every conceivable interest.
    • The set-up is one of the longest-running examples of an in-store media network, sometimes referred to as narrowcasting, or digital advertising networks.
    • In the near future, candidates will face the ultimate narrowcasting society.
    • When I was a kid, the big, bold promise of cable TV was that there would be narrowcasting.
    • Some banks narrowcast ads for other products on their ATM screens while you wait for your cash.
    • And advertisers might be able to narrowcast commercials made specifically for a particular type of viewer.
    • Cable television and the prospects of its narrowcasting have also played an important role, making the three networks truly dinosaurs and largely the buffoons of fettered broadcasting.
    • It doesn't just understand one of the fundamental of that what the web is incredibly good at, narrowcasting.
nounˈnerōˌkastˈnɛroʊˌkæst
  • Transmission by narrowcasting.

    Colorado women's volleyball narrowcasts
    as modifier narrowcast specialty channels
    Example sentencesExamples
    • It can also use existing broadcast infrastructure, so it needs neither the infrastructure of narrowcast nor the construction of new broadcast infrastructure.
    • Here, the news isn't just partisan but gleefully partisan: conservative, red-in-the-face news narrowcast to the red states.
    • With sufficient bandwidth could IP spell the end of traditional broadcast video delivery and become strictly videostreaming or mediastreaming to the end goal of personal narrowcasts?
    • ‘Although cable can't hit this narrowcast level it can complement the message by providing more details via television,’ he added.
    • One of the significant cultural aspects of the Internet is that, given its narrowcast properties, it's been able to open up the discussion.

Origin

1930s: back-formation from narrowcasting, on the pattern of broadcasting.

 
 
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