microbroadcasting

English

Etymology

micro- +‎ broadcasting

Noun

microbroadcasting (uncountable)

1. Synonym of microradio
   • 1998, Z Magazine - Volume 11, Issues 6-12, page 40:

     While the case lingered in the 9th Federal District Court, Dunifer used the protection of microbroadcasting's legal limbo to manufacture and distribute transmitters to fledgling stations, most of which broadcast between 10 and 30 watts and have a 2 to 5 mile range.

   • 2004, Jesse Walker, Rebels on the Air: An Alternative History of Radio in America, →ISBN, page 208:

     And it was with WTRA and its founder—M'banna Kantako, née DeWayne Readus—that the modern microbroadcasting movement begins.

   • 2009, David J. Hess, Robert Gottlieb, Localist Movements in a Global Economy, →ISBN, page 199:

     In addition to supporting licensed community radio, the Grassroots Radio Conference also supported microbroadcasting, or low-power FM broadcasting that generally can only reach a neighborhood or small city.