Now updated for CSW19. New words, if any, and new inflections of existing words, are shown in red.
| aeradio | a Canadian radio service for pilots. |
| aircheck | a recording made from a radio broadcast. |
| airdate | the date on which a broadcast is scheduled to take place. |
| airplay | the broadcasting of a play etc. on the air. |
| airwave | a channel for broadcasting. |
| animatic | a section of animation in a TV commercial. |
| animatronic | relating to animatronics. |
| animatronically | (Adv.) ANIMATRONIC, relating to animatronics. |
| animatronics | a technique of constructing robot models in accurate likenesses of humans, animals, etc., which are programmed to perform intricate, lifelike bodily movements in synchronization with a prerecorded soundtrack. |
| atmospherics | audible disturbances produced in radio receiving apparatus by atmospheric electrical phenomena (as lightning). |
| autocue | (Tradename) a text device to assist newsreaders. |
| backlot | an outdoor area, often next to a TV studio, used for exterior scenes. |
| bandpass | the range of frequencies transmitted through a filter. |
| bandspreading | an additional tuning control in some radio receivers whereby a selected narrow band of frequencies can be spread over a wider frequency band, in order to give finer control of tuning. |
| bandwidth | the width of a band of radio or TV frequencies. |
| baseband | capable of operating only over a narrow range of frequencies; (noun) a device operating only over a narrow range of frequencies. |
| blipvert | a very short television advertisement. |
| blooper | a radio that makes a howling noise; a mistake. |
| boombox | a powerful portable radio and cassette recorder. |
| cablecast | to broadcast on cable. |
| cabler | a cable broadcasting company. |
| cablevision | television transmission by cable. |
| celebreality | a television genre that is unscripted and involves either the day-to-day documentation of a celebrity's life or competitive challenges that a celebrity or celebrities must perform. |
| chatline | a television service in which callers contact each other through a monitored central switchboard. |
| chromakey | a special television effect by which a coloured background can be removed from a picture and a different one substituted. |
| colorcast | to broadcast in colour. |
| colourcast | to broadcast (a television programme) in colour. |
| comm | as in comm badge, a small wearable badge-shaped radio transmitter. |
| directional | suitable for detecting the direction from which radio signals come or for sending out radio signals in one direction only. |
| doco | (Aust. sl.) a documentary. |
| docu | (Coll.) a documentary film. |
| docusoap | a television series that follows the lives of real people over a period of time. |
| emmy | (Tradename) a gold plated statuette awarded annually for television. |
| factsheet | a printed sheet containing information relating to items covered in a television or radio program. |
| flopover | a defect in television reception. |
| godslot | a religious broadcasting slot. |
| handset | a device for eg operating a video recorder remotely. |
| headend | a facility from which cable television is transmitted. |
| headphone | an audio receiver worn in pairs over the ears, esp for listening to a radio, cassette player, etc. |
| heterodyne | in radio communication, applied to a method of imposing on a continuous wave another of slightly different length to produce beats; (verb) to change the frequency of (a signal) by a heterodyne process. |
| homodyne | applied to the reception of waves strengthened by the imposition of a locally generated wave of the same length. |
| ident | a short visual image displayed between television programs that works as a logo to locate the viewer to the channel. |
| infotainment | television programming that presents information (such as news) in a way that is meant to be entertaining. |
| iso | (Short for) an isolated replay, a TV and film facility. |
| izvestia | (Russian) news, information. |
| kine | cattle a type of television tube |
| letterboxing | showing a film on television in its original wide screen format. |
| listenership | the audience for a radio program or recording. |
| miniseries | a short series eg on TV. |
| minisode | a heavily abridged version of a television episode, esp. as broadcast on the Internet. |
| multicast | a broadcast from one source simultaneously to several receivers. |
| narrowcast | to distribute material on video tapes, cassettes etc. |
| newsbeat | a particular area of news reporting. |
| newscast | a news broadcast or telecast. |
| newsclip | a brief extract from broadcast or published news. |
| newsfeed | a service that provides news articles for distribution. |
| newsflash | a brief preliminary dispatch about news just becoming known. |
| newsreel | a short movie presenting current events. |
| newsroom | a room where the news is gathered. |
| nonpeak | not peak (eg of television hours); (noun) a period of low demand. |
| nowcast | a report on current weather conditions. |
| nowcasting | broadcasting events as they happen. |
| overdub | to add sound to an existing recording. |
| playlist | those recordings selected to be broadcast regularly by a radio station; (verb) to feature on a playlist. |
| podcast | an audio file of a radio broadcast; (verb) to make a radio broadcast available as an audio file. |
| preradio | before the invention of radio. |
| preselector | a component of a radio receiver, improving reception. |
| radio | signalling through space, without connecting wires, by means of electromagnetic waves (verb) to transmit by radio |
| radiogoniometer | an instrument for finding direction through radio signals. |
| radiolocational | relating to radiolocation, position-finding by radio signals. |
| radioman | a radio operator. |
| radiopacity | the state of being radio-opaque i.e. not allowing radio waves through. |
| radiopager | a radio receiver which functions as a pager. |
| radiopaging | the use of a radiopager, a radio receiver which functions as a pager. |
| radiophoto | a picture transmitted by radio. |
| radiotelephony | coomunication by radiotelephone. |
| radiothon | a marathon talk-in on radio. |
| raster | a set of scanning lines on a receiver, on which the image is reproduced; (verb) to create an image by raster. |
| rasterise | to convert an image into raster form. |
| rasterize | to convert an image into raster form. |
| rebroadcast | to broadcast again (a radio or television program being simultaneously received from another source). |
| rescreen | to screen again. |
| romcom | a film or television comedy based on the relationship between the characters. |
| shortwave | a radio wave with a frequency of between 10m and 100m; (verb) to broadcast on shortwave. |
| shoutout | a public greeting, esp one broadcast via television or radio. |
| sideband | a radio frequency above or below the carrier frequency. |
| simulcast | to broadcast simultaneously on radio and television. |
| sitcom | (Coll.) a situation comedy. |
| soaper | (US) a soap opera. |
| soapie | (Aust. sl.) a soap opera. |
| soundbite | a brief section on radio or television in which eg a political leader makes a short succinct statement. |
| squarial | a flat diamond-shaped aerial for receiving satellite TV broadcasts. |
| sudser | (Sl.) a soap opera. |
| superhet | a type of radio transmitter. |
| superheterodyne | radio, applied to reception in which oscillations of slightly different frequency are imposed on the received oscillations, producing beats of a frequency above audio-frequency which are easily amplified. |
| supershow | an exceptional show. |
| syntonise | to adjust to agree in frequency. |
| syntonize | to adjust to agree in frequency. |
| syntony | the tuning, or agreement in resonance frequency, of radio apparatus. |
| talkback | a two-way radio system. |
| tapescript | a tape-recorded reading of a complete script. |
| telco | (Short for) a telecommunications company. |
| tele | (Short for) television. |
| telebridge | a television broadcast of a discussion between studio audiences in different countries linked by satellite. |
| telecamera | a television camera. |
| telecast | to broadcast or transmit by television. |
| telecine | the transmission of filmed material by television. |
| telecom | (Short for) telecommunications. |
| telecomm | (Short for) telecommunication. |
| telecon | (Short for) teleconference. |
| telecourse | a course of study conducted over television. |
| telefilm | a film made specially for television. |
| telegenic | well-suited to the medium of television, esp in having an appearance and manner that are markedly attractive to television viewers. |
| telegenically | (Adv.) TELEGENIC, well-suited to the medium of television. |
| telemeeting | a teleconference. |
| telepic | a feature-length motion picture made for TV. |
| teleplay | a play written for television. |
| telerecord | to make a telerecording, a recording for broadcast by television. |
| telerecording | a recording for broadcast by television. |
| telesale | a sale via television. |
| telescreen | a television screen. |
| teletext | a system by which an adapted television set is able to show alphanumeric information selected from displays transmitted using the spare capacity of existing television channels. |
| telethon | an exceptionally long television programme to raise money for a charity or cause. |
| teletron | a cathode-ray tube for synthesis of television images. |
| televerite | the televising of scenes from actual life to give a sense of heightened realism. |
| teleview | to view by television. |
| televiewer | one who views by television. |
| televise | to broadcast by television. |
| televiser | one who televises. |
| television | the transmission by radio waves, and reproduction on a screen, of visual images, usually accompanied by sound. |
| televisor | a receiver for television. |
| televisual | of, relating to, or suitable for broadcast by television. |
| televisually | (Adv.) TELEVISUAL, of, relating to, or suitable for broadcast by television. |
| telly | (Coll.) television. |
| transceiver | a radio transmitterreceiver that uses many of the same components for both transmission and reception. |
| transponder | a type of radio or radar transmitter-receiver that transmits signals automatically when it receives predetermined signals. |
| transpondor | a type of radio or radar transmitter-receiver that transmits signals automatically when it receives predetermined signals. |
| transverter | a piece of equipment attached to a radio transceiver to enable it to transmit and receive on additional frequencies. |
| travelog | a film, talk etc. on travel. |
| travelogue | a film, talk etc. on travel. |
| triniscope | a cathode-ray tube for colour television. |
| troposcatter | the propagation of radio waves by using irregularities in the troposphere to scatter the signals beamed up by means of high-powered uhf transmitters and parabolic antennas. |
| unicom | a designated radio frequency for communications at some airports. |
| vid | a short form of video. |
| videodisc | a compact disk on which video is stored. |
| videodisk | a compact disk on which video is stored. |
| videofit | a type of identikit picture put together on television. |
| videoland | television as a medium or industry. |
| videophile | a lover of videos. |
| videotex | a system used to display information on a television screen. |
| videotext | a system used to display information on a television screen. |
| viewership | a programme's viewers taken collectively. |
| visiogenic | suitable for transmission by television. |
| voiceover | a spoken commentary by an unseen narrator on film. |
| waveband | a range of radio frequencies. |
| weathercast | a weather forecast esp on radio or television. |
| wideband | operating over a wide band of frequency; (noun) a wide bandwidth transmission. |
| wireless | signalling through space without conducting wires (noun) a wireless device; (verb) to communicate by radio |
| wirelessly | (Adv.) WIRELESS, without wires. |
| yagi | (Japanese) a type of shortwave antenna. |