Hi this is Tutor Nick p and this is Suffix 15. The suffix today is cast , c-a-s-t as a word ending.
Okay. If somebody wants a screenshot, do right now. Let's get right to it. The suffix -cast is used
to form words for any audio or visual content that is made available to an audience. Okay.
The origin of the suffix is a backward formation of the word broadcast. So broadcast was the
original one. And then they formed these other words using the -cast from broadcast. Okay. And
we do have a number of examples for these today. The first one we're going to do of course is
broadcast since especially since it's the original one. Broadcast basically, you could say to air
too. Sending out messages or programs to radios or television. So this is the oldest one. We
often say something is broadcast. All right and we have an example for that. The baseball game
is going to be broadcast tonight on the sports channel. You know, at 8pm or something like that.
Okay. Good. Our next one podcast. Yeah. Podcast is very, very common today. A lot of people don't
really know podcasts yet, but if you go to like YouTube and you you click on a video where you
only see the picture. You only see the thumbnail and then all you do is listen to it. You don't see
a video moving this is like a podcast. So let's look at it. So it's an audio program produced
regularly on the Internet like a radio show. So all you're really doing is listening to it.
So it's one that if you're walking in the street it's pretty good. You could actually
listen to it you don't have to keep looking at the screen. So where you might you know
bump into something. You could just listen to it. Just like you listen to a regular radio program,
but you can you know, get it from the Internet. So you just listen. You don't actually watch a video.
Okay. And here's the example sentence. There are a couple of podcasts I listen to
on a daily basis. So somebody could say that. Or number two. Oh oh to get back to this one.
This term is a mixture of ipod and broadcast. That's where this one originally came from.
Believed to be coined by Ben Hammersley. He's the one that actually came up with this term.
Okay. Let's continue. All right. Now narrowcast. To send a program to a
selected to selected individuals or to selected TV. So this would be like on cable. You know it
could be like pay-per-view or somebody just bought. You know one channel like
maybe somebody bought the porn channel. You know, the dirty channel or or an HBO or one that wasn't
normally included in your regular cable. So it's only to those people that pay the extra
for that one. So that would be narrow. So it's not everybody. Not everybody who gets cable gets
this one. It's narrow because it's just limited to the people who probably pay for it. Okay.
That cable company has a number of channels for, for narrow-casting. So they're basically you know,
again maybe you get so many channels with the basic service , but then if you want these extra
channels you have to pay an extra fee. Probably for each channel. All right. Let's continue.
If we say simulcast. Yeah. We hear this a lot. To broadcast the program or event across more than
one medium or service at a time. So remember medium is you know the singular of media.
So here's our example. That baseball game will be simulcast on both TV and radio live. So it's on TV
and the radio. So those are two different you know, this is two different mediums or
you could say media. So two forms of media. Okay. Good. And last one here is webcast.
A performance or public event sent out to a wide audience on the Net or on the Internet.
There will be a live webcast of that event over the Internet. So this one. If they decided to
do it kind of recently, they're not actually you know, going to have it on TV or anything
or on cable. They're going to just send it over the Internet for everybody to see.
If they get ... if you can see this event that's live and this would be a webcast. Okay. Anyway,
I hope you got it. I hope it was clear. I hope it was informative. Thank you for your time. Bye-bye.