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Google in a wonderful thing anyone can use. Googling the history of the word broadcast one finds at http://earlyradiohistory.us/
Broadcast, in the sense of "distributing information widely", also was first used before Hertz ever discovered radio waves. An early example appears in Notes on the Writing of General Histories of Kansas, published in 1883: "...unscrupulous newspaper correspondents... sent broadcast over the country, contradictory or false reports of every new phase of the exciting contest as it developed". Also, beginning in 1894 a newspaper called the Twin City Broadcaster was published in Ardmore, Oklahoma. Because "broadcast" already meant distributing a message to various points, it was naturally applied to radio transmissions intended for multiple locations. Hence the October 14, 1898 The Electrician (London) comment that "there are rare cases where, as Dr. Lodge once expressed it, it might be advantageous to 'shout' the message, spreading it broadcast to receivers in all directions".
Jackie
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