What's the difference between broadcast and documentary?

Broadcast


Definition:

  • (n.) A casting or throwing seed in all directions, as from the hand in sowing.
  • (a.) Cast or dispersed in all directions, as seed from the hand in sowing; widely diffused.
  • (a.) Scattering in all directions (as a method of sowing); -- opposed to planting in hills, or rows.
  • (adv.) So as to scatter or be scattered in all directions; so as to spread widely, as seed from the hand in sowing, or news from the press.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) BT Sport went down this route, appointing Channel 4 Sales, the TV ad sales house that represents the broadcaster and partners including UKTV.
  • (2) The Sports Network broadcasts live NHL, Nascar, golf and horse racing – having also recently purchased the rights for Formula One – and will show 154 of the 196 games that NBC will cover.
  • (3) The company also confirmed on Thursday as it launched its sports pay-TV offering at its new broadcasting base in the Olympic Park in Stratford, east London, that former BBC presenter Jake Humphrey will anchor its Premier League coverage.
  • (4) Living by the "Big River" as a child, Cash soaked up work songs, church music, and country & western from radio station WMPS in Memphis, or the broadcasts from Nashville's Grand Ole Opry on Friday and Saturday evenings.
  • (5) But she says she is totally convinced that, as a public broadcaster, RAI has an ethical responsibility to start showing women in a more realistic light.
  • (6) He continued: "I don't think there could be a better move for me: to retire from one of the world's best football clubs at the end of the season and then join one of the world's best broadcasters.
  • (7) "The level of the financial penalty to be imposed in this case should be sufficient to act as an effective incentive [to all broadcast licence holders] to continue to provide all elements of their respective licensed services throughout the licensed period, even if the licensee believes that there are commercial reasons for it to cease providing all or part of the licensed service during the licence period," the regulator added.
  • (8) Initial proceedings in Carl Pistorius' trial had focused on a request by South Africa's national broadcaster, SABC, to show the trial proceedings live on national television or record them for later use.
  • (9) The night's special award went to armed forces broadcaster, BFBS Radio, while long-standing BBC radio DJ Trevor Nelson received the top prize of the night, the gold award.
  • (10) Only "a tiny minority" of countries presently control space technologies, which play a major role in everything from broadcasting to weather forecasting, agriculture, health and environmental monitoring, the document notes.
  • (11) To which Salim replies: “But you do.” When such intimacy between two men can be broadcast to an audience of millions, we are shown that the ways of portraying gay sex can be reframed.
  • (12) Norwich Ownership Delia Smith and her husband Michael Wynn Jones own 53.1% of the club’s shares; deputy chairman Michael Foulger owns approximately 16% Gate receipts £12m Broadcasting and media £70m Catering £4m Commercial & other income £12m Net debt Not stated; £2.7m bank overdraft, no directors’ loans.
  • (13) There was also an OBE for Daily Mirror advice columnist and broadcaster, Dr Miriam Stoppard , while Dr Claire Bertschinger , whose appearance in Michael Buerk's 1984 reports from Ethiopia inspired Bob Geldof to organise Live Aid, was made a dame for services to nursing and international humanitarian aid.
  • (14) Cable news channels like Fox News and CNN carried the address, and some of the networks carried it on their digital platforms, but a network insider told Politico on Thursday the speech’s content was too “overtly political” to broadcast.
  • (15) It is trying to position Sky Arts as the country's premier cultural channel as it attempts to demonstrate to politicians and regulators that it can produce programming that was once the preserve of public service broadcasters like the BBC.
  • (16) The video is done in the style of a news report for Russia's Kremlin-controlled Channel One channel, which normally praises Putin in every broadcast.
  • (17) The old BBC Trust will be abolished and regulation will largely pass to Ofcom, which regulates commercial broadcasters.
  • (18) But DAB radio, the likely broadcast replacement for analogue AM and FM in the digital-only age, saw its share of listening drop, to 15.3% from 15.8% in the second quarter of 2010.
  • (19) The allegations come weeks after Top Gear executives expressed regret over a remark made by Clarkson on the show's Burma special, broadcast in March.
  • (20) There is an ongoing duel over whether Sky should offer its channels to BT's YouView service, while BT has yet to agree a deal with the cable operator Virgin Media to broadcast its channels.

Documentary


Definition:

  • (a.) Pertaining to written evidence; contained or certified in writing.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In a trailer shown Sunday for an upcoming documentary on state-run Rossiya-1 television called “Homeward bound”, Putin openly discusses Moscow’s controversial grabbing of Crimea a year ago.
  • (2) The solar hypothesis was championed publicly in March by the controversial Channel 4 documentary The Great Global Warming Swindle.
  • (3) Many drugs have been proposed although the documentary proof of their efficacy varies.
  • (4) The documentary was cleared of breaching Ofcom's broadcasting code.
  • (5) It means that I want to set a good example,” he told Swedish channel TV4, according to business daily Dagens Industri which viewed the documentary.
  • (6) Long before anyone had heard of Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth, she planned to make a low-budget documentary about oil and climate change.
  • (7) His decision to be filmed has echoes of the death of Guernsey-based hotelier Peter Smedley, whose assisted death in 2011 was screened in a documentary by the late Sir Terry Pratchett for the BBC .
  • (8) But if there's a piece you particularly enjoyed, or found interesting or useful, please add a comment below or tweet us: @GdnSocialCare At the start of the year, the BBC screened fly-on-the-wall documentary series Protecting Our Children , an authentic portrayal of the difficult decisions and situations social workers face every day.
  • (9) The German journalist whose documentary lifted the lid on claims of systematic doping in Russian athletics has said he is prepared to make a follow-up after receiving more evidence.
  • (10) Whereas a film documentary might piece together the sweatshop story through footage and anecdote, the game allows players to experience the system from the inside with all its cat's cradle of pressures and temptations.
  • (11) Years later, when Atkins' "Countrypolitan" touch was no longer fashionable, he was often asked by journalists and documentary-makers whether he and his fellow Svengalis had gone too far.
  • (12) Nominees: Sticks and Stones, Maroon Productions for Channel 4 Charlie and Lola "I am not sleepy and I will not go to bed", Tiger Aspect Productions for BBC Children's Breakthrough Award - Behind the Screen Jonathan Smith - Make Me Normal, Century Films for Channel 4 "The jury said that this year's winner had directed a moving and inspiring documentary which forced the audience to consider the impact of autism and Aspergers syndrome and how it can impact on the lives of those it affects."
  • (13) "I changed the names of the characters because I didn't want to make them more famous," she said, adding that it was "not a documentary" and that she was "not too concerned with the reactions" of the people on whom the story is based.
  • (14) Robert De Niro has appeared on US TV to defend documentary Vaxxed, which was pulled from this year’s Tribeca film festival after causing controversy.
  • (15) The documentary has its lighter moments, too – not all of them intentional.
  • (16) But he will also have seen Michael Cockerell's savage documentary on Saturday on How to be a Tory leader.
  • (17) Words like "trivialisation" and "stunt" were bandied about, especially after the Channel 4 documentary that dwelt as much on the players as the results.
  • (18) We’re prepared to inform international society about the steps we’re taking, the investigation, the decisions.” Pound’s report, commissioned in the wake of a devastating documentary by the German journalist Hajo Seppelt for ARD in December last year, outlined systemic cheating on a grand scale including a second “shadow lab” that was used to screen samples, anti-doping labs infiltrated by secret service agents and positive tests covered up for cash.
  • (19) Prior to BBC4 Hadlow was head of specialist factual at Channel 4, commissioning shows such as The 1940s House and acclaimed documentary The Boy Whose Skin Fell Off .
  • (20) A piece in the New York Times claimed that pressure from the league might have led ESPN to end their association with Frontline, a TV documentary series which was a few weeks away from airing two pieces looking at the NFL's handling of head injuries.