radiodiffusion

English edit

Etymology edit

From French radiodiffusion.

Noun edit

radiodiffusion (plural radiodiffusions)

(uncountable) The act of broadcasting by radio; transmission.
- 1967, Records of the Intellectual Property Conference of Stockholm, June 11 to July 14, 1967, volume I, Geneva: World Intellectual Property Organization, published 1971, document S/1, article 11bis, page 51:
  The provisions of paragraph (1) concern the exclusive right of the author to authorize the radiodiffusion of his works and the communication to the public of the radiodiffusion of these works.
- 2008, Fabrice Lequeux, “DTV in France”, in Wendy Van den Broeck, Jo Pierson, editors, Digital Television in Europe, Brussels: VUBpress, Academic and Scientific Publishers, →ISBN, page 81:
  On July 29, 1982 the Haute Autorité de la Communication Audiovisuelle (HACA) was created. It was the first institution for audiovisual regulation. Its aim was to protect the independency of the radiodiffusion public service and to attribute the terrestrial frequencies.
- 2018, Chris Hopkins, Walter Greenwood’s Love on the Dole: Novel, Play, Film, Liverpool University Press, →ISBN, page 281:
  […] been recalling the recent broadcast when he commented in his Radio column on 11 February 1945 that: listening to The Corn is Green or Love on the Dole I feel sure that the radiodiffusion of standard drama is a good thing.
(countable) A broadcast.
- 1956, Dulany Terrett, The Signal Corps: The Emergency (To December 1941), Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, published 1970, →LCCN, page 19:
  Signal Corps and Tank Corps men together devised equipment on the master-oscillator principle which the signalmen installed after the Armistice to make a radiotelegraph network connecting the Paris headquarters with the Army of Occupation. Of considerable extent and surely one of the earliest successes of the sort, the network engaged stations at Antwerp, Spa, Koblenz, Trier, Toul, and Chaumont at various stages between November 1918 and September 1919. The control was twenty miles outside Paris, at a site in the British zone far enough away to escape the radiodiffusion from the Eiffel Tower spark transmitter.
- 1995, Adrian Rifkin, Street Noises: Parisian Pleasure, 1900-40, Manchester University Press, →ISBN, page 45:
  Concomitant with this repression is an idealisation of one’s self, of a social sharing that was realised in the literature of intimacy with the Zone or the radiodiffusions of popular song.