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"broadcast" is also used as a crossword clue. If that's what you saw, the answer is often aired (5 letters).
Definitions
To transmit by radio, television, or online; also a transmission.
Word origin
From broad + cast. First attested in the mid 18th century, in the agricultural use of spreading seeds.
Used in a sentence
“The seed was broadcast, not drilled.”
“The new limitations would still prohibit foreigners from wholly or directly owning broadcast licensees, allowing only indirect ownership through a stake in a controlling parent of a broadcast licensee.”
“A special letter of warning against the ravages of the potato-tuber moth in the shape of a press notice has been sent broadcast to newspapers, as well as to others, throughout the country.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Transmit by radio”9 letters
02“Radio or TV program”9 letters
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