narrowcast

present singular third person narrowcasts · participle present narrowcasting · common error unknown tag participle past proscribed sometimes narrowcasted · common error unknown tag past proscribed sometimes narrowcasted

1. To transmit a programme to selected individuals or groups, especially via cable.
2. To send out a message or disseminate information to a specific narrow audience rather than the general public.

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   As much as Israeli media outlets and politicians are narrowcasting their ideologies every day, Israel’s emerging blended society is on full display every night on prime-time TV — an ultra-Orthodox female celebrity chef on one channel, an Israeli Druze female celebrity chef on another, an Israeli Arab star journalist on another.

   2023 June 6, Thomas L. Friedman, “From Tel Aviv to Riyadh”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

3. medicineTo transmit a medical intervention to a specific organ or type of tissue.

   Cancer therapies can be narrowcasted to the unique genetic signature of a tumor instead of poisoning every dividing cell in the body.

   2018, Steven Pinker, Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress, →ISBN

plural narrowcasts

1. A programme transmitted in this manner.