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Broadcaster communities and identity groupings
Broadcaster communities and identity groupings are the ways broadcasters are grouped, by employer classification, license, community of practice, and identity, with measurable workforce gaps in the UK and US.
Broadcasting
Broadcasting: one-to-many transmission of audio or video to the general public, per the ITU definition. Covers radio and television history, digital transition (DVB, DAB, SFNs), and national regulation including the UK Media Act, Canada's Online Streaming Act, and Australia's BSA 1992.
Broadcasting (networking)
Broadcasting is a networking method in which a single packet reaches every device on a local network segment, used by protocols like ARP and DHCP.
Broadcasting Acts of the United Kingdom
The Broadcasting Acts of the United Kingdom are the 1990 and 1996 statutes that replaced the Independent Broadcasting Authority, required the BBC to commission 25% independent output, and provided for digital broadcasting.
Broadcasting contracts in cricket
Cricket broadcasting contracts: the three-layer market of board home-series rights, centralised ICC tournament rights, and league rights such as the IPL, whose 2023–27 sale reached INR 48,390.5 crore, with Viacom18, Disney Star, Sky, SuperSport, and Amazon as key buyers.
Broadcasting House
Broadcasting House is the BBC's headquarters on Portland Place in central London, opened in 1932 and now home to BBC Radio, BBC News, and the World Service.
Broadcasting of sports events
Broadcasting of sports events, also called sportscasting or sport on television, transmits sporting competitions to audiences and is now the main revenue source for most sports organizations.
Broadcasting Services Act 1992
The Broadcasting Services Act 1992 is the main Australian law regulating television and radio broadcasting. It established the Australian Broadcasting Authority, which merged into the ACMA in 2005.
Broadchurch
Broadchurch is a British ITV crime drama (2013-2017) created by Chris Chibnall, starring David Tennant and Olivia Colman as detectives investigating the murder of 11-year-old Danny Latimer in a Dorset seaside town; three eight-episode series, BAFTA-winning, remade as Gracepoint.
Broadcom
Broadcom Inc., formerly Avago Technologies, is an American semiconductor and infrastructure-software company that supplies Ethernet switching silicon for data centers and bought VMware in 2023.
Broadcom Corporation
Broadcom Corporation was an American fabless semiconductor company founded in California in 1991 by Henry Samueli and Henry Nicholas, acquired by Avago Technologies in 2016 for $37 billion.
Broadcom custom AI accelerators
Broadcom custom AI accelerators, called XPUs, are customer-specific AI chips Broadcom co-designs with hyperscalers like Google and OpenAI, fabricated at TSMC with Broadcom Ethernet networking.
Broader Approach
The Broader Approach is a 2007 fusion energy research agreement between Euratom and Japan, funding three joint projects in Japan that support ITER and a future DEMO power plant.
Broader autism phenotype
Broader autism phenotype (BAP), or broad autism phenotype: subclinical autistic traits in undiagnosed relatives of autistic people, reflecting shared genetic liability; measured with AQ, BAPQ, SRS-A; not an official diagnosis.
Broadmeadow Coal Mine
Broadmeadow Coal Mine is an underground longwall coking coal mine in Queensland's Bowen Basin, north of Moranbah, operated by BMA and producing since August 2005.
Broadmoor Hospital
Broadmoor Hospital, historically the Broadmoor Asylum for the Criminally Insane, is a high secure psychiatric hospital at Crowthorne, Berkshire, England, opened in 1863 and holding up to 210 male patients.
Broadsheet
Broadsheet: large-format newspaper format, traditionally about 12 x 21 inches in the US and six columns wide, associated with serious, in-depth, original reporting; contrasted with the half-size tabloid and shaped by Britain's 1712 page tax and later compact conversions.
Broadside ballad
A broadside ballad is a narrative song printed on one side of a cheap sheet, sold for a penny in the streets of Britain from the sixteenth century onward.
BroadVail Capital Partners
BroadVail Capital Partners is a private equity firm founded in 2014 and headquartered in Houston, Texas, that invests growth capital to build commercial real estate investment platforms.
Broadvail Growth Equity
Broadvail Growth Equity is the growth equity fund series of BroadVail Capital Partners, a Houston firm founded in 2014 whose funds reported $833 million sold through March 2025.
Broadwater, Harry, Glendower Gas Field
Broadwater, Harry, Glendower Gas Field is the combined name for three coal seam gas fields in Queensland's Surat Basin, near Dalby and Tara, operated by Shell QGC.
Broadway (Manhattan)
Broadway is Manhattan's oldest major thoroughfare, a former Native American trail that predates the 1811 grid and cuts diagonally across it, creating Union, Madison, Herald, and Times Squares and anchoring the 39-theatre Broadway Theater District.
Broadway Danny Rose
Broadway Danny Rose is Woody Allen's 1984 black-and-white comedy about a hapless New York talent agent, starring Allen, Mia Farrow, and Nick Apollo Forte, told in flashback at the Carnegie Deli and nominated for the Best Original Screenplay Oscar.
Broadway Limited
The Broadway Limited, originally the Pennsylvania Special, was the Pennsylvania Railroad's flagship extra-fare overnight train between New York and Chicago from 1912, running under Amtrak until 1995.
Broadway Macau Casino
Broadway Macau (百老匯娛樂場), Casino Broadway, is a Galaxy Entertainment Group casino, hotel, 3,000-seat theatre, and hawker-style food street in Cotai, Macau, opened 27 May 2015 on the rebranded Casino Waldo site.
Broadway theatre
Broadway theatre: professional live theatre in New York City's 41 large (500-plus-seat) midtown theatres, defined by venue, not style. Records show $1.91 billion gross and 14.6 million attendances in 2025–2026; counterpart market is London's West End.
Broadwell (microarchitecture)
Broadwell, also known as Intel Broadwell, is Intel's microarchitecture that shrank the Haswell design to the 14 nm process, launching in late 2014 with the Core M.
Broca's area
Broca's area, Brodmann areas 44 and 45 in the left inferior frontal gyrus, is a brain region named for Paul Broca, classically the motor speech center and now viewed as part of distributed language and cognitive-control networks.
Brocade
Brocade (Italian broccato, 'embossed cloth') is a richly decorative fabric woven with supplementary, non-structural wefts, often silk with gold or silver thread; continuous or discontinuous, on draw or jacquard looms.
Brocade Communications Systems
Brocade Communications Systems was a San Jose, California company that built Fibre Channel switches for storage area networks, later acquired by Broadcom for about $6.1 billion in 2017.