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| act |
to perform in plays, movies, or on television. [1/4 definitions] |
| acting |
created or suited for stage, film, or television performance. [2/5 definitions] |
| actor |
a person who performs in a play, a movie, or a radio or television program. |
| actress |
a woman or girl who performs in a play, a movie, or a radio or television program. |
| aerial |
a radio or television antenna. [1/3 definitions] |
| airing |
a broadcast, usu. of prerecorded material, on radio or television. [1/3 definitions] |
| airplay |
the broadcasting of a recording by a radio or television station. |
| airtime |
broadcast time allotted, as to an event or news story, on television or radio. |
| airwaves |
the media used for transmission of radio and television signals. |
| Alex Haley |
a U.S. author celebrated for his pulitzer prize-winning work of historical fiction, Roots: The Saga of an American Family (1976), a publication whose subsequent television broadcast adaptation spawned a national discussion about race and race relations (b.1921--d.1992). |
| anchor |
the main person who reports the news on a television or radio program. [1/2 definitions] |
| announce |
to report on the action of an event, often on radio or television. [1/2 definitions] |
| announcement |
a spoken commercial advertisement or other message, esp. on radio or television. [1/3 definitions] |
| announcer |
a person who presents programs or reads advertisements on radio or television. |
| antenna |
a metal device that sends or receives radio or television signals. [1/2 definitions] |
| audience |
the people reached by television, radio, newspapers, or magazines. [1/3 definitions] |
| biopic |
a biographical film or television program often containing scenes that are fictional in order to fill out the plot and add drama, humor, or suspense to make the real life subject compelling to an audience. |
| bleep |
to obscure (a recorded sound) by substituting a beep, as in censoring profanity on a television program; blip. [1/2 definitions] |
| blip |
an interruption in audio recording or transmission in television or radio. [1/5 definitions] |
| blooper |
esp. in radio and television, an embarrassing or amusing error in speech or action. [1/2 definitions] |
| broadcast |
to send over television or radio. [6/2 definitions] |
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