# Broadcast term

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/broadcast-term/5108>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [December 4, 1999, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/broadcast-term/5108 "1999-12-04T22:50:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Poto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ab992/32.png) [@Poto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poto)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 1999, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/broadcast-term/5108/1 "1999-12-04T22:50:00Z")

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You get a satellite signal from your network and either broadcast it locally or broadcast through cable.What’s the verb for this “relay” broadcast? Rebroadcast would imply a delay or a rerun.

My wife needs this term for a document.

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**Author:** ![funneefarmer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9fc348/32.png) [@funneefarmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/funneefarmer)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 1999, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/broadcast-term/5108/2 "1999-12-04T22:54:00Z")

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Closest I know of is maybe “network feed”.

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**Author:** ![Andy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/aeb1de/32.png) [@Andy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 1999, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/broadcast-term/5108/3 "1999-12-04T22:57:00Z")

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I used to use military radio equipment. We often used an intermediate piece of equipment to boost our range…it was called a rebroadcast station and there was no delay involved.

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**Author:** ![whitetho](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whitetho/32/1059_2.png) [@whitetho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whitetho)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 1999, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/broadcast-term/5108/4 "1999-12-04T23:06:00Z")

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Your question could be a little clearer, but some possibilities are relay, distribute, redistribute, carry, carriage (over cable), transmit and retransmit.

(My favorite, from 1913, is: “…fired out into the illimitable ether to be picked up and made use of by anybody who has the will and the apparatus to possess himself thereof”.)

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**Author:** ![Ursa\_Major](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/a88e57/32.png) [@Ursa\_Major](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ursa_Major)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 1999, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/broadcast-term/5108/5 "1999-12-04T23:18:00Z")

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“End user feed”

A facility that broadcasts (through the air) an end user feed is called a “repeater”. A facility that pumps it into a cable system is called a “headend”.

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**Author:** ![Poto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ab992/32.png) [@Poto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poto)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 1999, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/broadcast-term/5108/6 "1999-12-04T23:45:00Z")

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Thanks, all.I can’t quote the exact text, but retransmit sounds professional enough and yet covers the possibilities.