Interest
Proportion of Hacker News items mentioning "broadcast" over time.
Mentions
Total number of Hacker News items mentioning "broadcast" over time.
Broadcasting is the distribution of audio and audiovisual content to dispersed audiences via an electronic mass communications medium, typically using radio waves in a one-to-many model. Broadcasting began with AM radio, which became popular around 1920 with the spread of vacuum tube radio transmitters and receivers. Before this, most implementations of electronic communication were one-to-one, with the message intended for a single recipient. Read more on Wikipedia