broadcasting 的詞源

1922年，動詞 broadcast 的名詞化。

Broadcasting, as distinct from wireless communication, may be said to have come into being about 1920. It may be defined as the systematic diffusion, by radio telephony, of music, lectures, drama, humour, news and information bulletins, speeches and ceremonies, pictures and other matter susceptible of appreciation by a scattered audience, individually or in groups, with appropriate receiving apparatus. [Encyclopedia Britannica, 1929]

廣播，與無線通信不同，可以說是在1920年左右出現的。它可以被定義爲通過無線電電話系統有計劃地傳播音樂、講座、戲劇、幽默、新聞和信息公告、演講和儀式、圖片和其他適合分散觀衆個人或團體欣賞的內容，需要相應的接收設備。[ Encyclopedia Britannica，1929年]