news broadcast

IPA/ˈnjuːz ˌbrɔːd.kɑːst/
IPA/ˈnuːz ˌbrɑːd.kæst/

news broadcast — noun

1. a programme on television or the radio that tells people the latest news and wha

1.nounB1
Definition

a programme on television or the radio that tells people the latest news and what is happening in the world

Example

Fatima listens to the morning news broadcast on the radio while she gets dressed.

collocation: morning news broadcast

The evening news broadcast showed footage of rescue teams arriving at the flooded village.

Common collocations
  • morning news broadcast
  • evening news broadcast
  • local news broadcast
  • radio news broadcast
  • television news broadcast
  • watch a news broadcast
  • listen to a news broadcast
  • switch off the news broadcast
Synonyms
  • newscast

    mainly American English; used more often in US broadcasting contexts

  • news programme

    broader in scope; can cover discussion panels and magazine-format shows, not just straight reporting

  • news bulletin

    a much shorter update, typically only a few minutes long

Common Mistakes

I watched the news broadcast at midnight' (when you mean a 30-second headline update).
I watched the news bulletin at midnight.
A news broadcast is a full-length programme; a bulletin is a short summary.

Word family

Synonym discussion

Sense: noun/1

A news broadcast is the full scheduled programme — the whole half-hour or hour of televised or radio news. Newscast is its American counterpart and is used in much the same way, though it sounds slightly more technical and is rare in British English. A news programme is a looser term that can include interview shows, panel discussions, and magazine formats — not every news programme is a straight news broadcast. A news bulletin is a brief update, often just a few minutes long, inserted between other programmes; you would not call a 30-minute evening show a bulletin. Finally, a news report is a single story within a broadcast, not the whole programme: you might hear five different news reports during one news broadcast.

newscast ↗news programmenews bulletinnews report

Common collocations

Nouns

  • news broadcast journalist
  • news broadcast studio

Phrases

  • the main news broadcast
  • a live news broadcast

Prepositions

  • on a news broadcast
  • during a news broadcast

Etymology

Middle EnglishEnglish

A compound formed from news (from the plural of new, first used in the 14th century to mean 'new things, tidings') and broadcast (originally an agricultural term meaning 'to scatter seed widely over the soil'; it was adopted in the 1920s to describe the transmission of radio signals sent out to a wide audience). The combination news broadcast entered common usage as radio and later television became the main way people received daily news.