--- title: "How to pronounce \"narrowcast\" in English | SayItVid" description: "Learn how to say \"narrowcast\" correctly. Watch real-life video examples and master your English pronunciation with SayItVid." image: "https://img.youtube.com/vi/Jq6NvA7eKCM/hqdefault.jpg" url: "https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/narrowcast" --- # How to pronounce "narrowcast" in English ## Pronunciation & Phonetics - **IPA**: `/nærrɒwkæst/` - **Syllable Breakdown**: **nar·row·cast** ## Meaning & Usage ### VERB - To transmit a programme to selected individuals or groups, especially via cable. - To send out a message or disseminate information to a specific narrow audience rather than the general public. - *Example*: "As much as Israeli media outlets and politicians are narrowcasting their ideologies every day, Israel’s emerging blended society is on full display every night on prime-time TV — an ultra-Orthodox female celebrity chef on one channel, an Israeli Druze female celebrity chef on another, an Israeli Arab star journalist on another." ### NOUN - A programme transmitted in this manner. ### Example Sentences - "As much as Israeli media outlets and politicians are narrowcasting their ideologies every day, Israel’s emerging blended society is on full display every night on prime-time TV — an ultra-Orthodox female celebrity chef on one channel, an Israeli Druze female celebrity chef on another, an Israeli Arab star journalist on another." - "narrowcast. You cannot have 24 hours music or sports or reality on broadcast television. Because you have to give something to everybody." - "narrowcasting in narrowcasting narrow narrowcasting serving small networks of people with specialized information" ## Real-Life Native Speaker Examples (15 Video Clips) Listen to native speakers pronounce "narrowcast" in real conversation: ### Example 1 > "about it? What was using the unique capabilities of cable that broadcast television could not use? Well, narrowcast, for example. You cannot narrowcast. You cannot have 24 hours music or sports or reality on broadcast television. Because you have to give something to everybody. You cannot charge for it. You can't have an HBO or Stars and so on." - **Watch at 11:37**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jq6NvA7eKCM&t=697s) ### Example 2 > "my biggest one is um how do you see the uh the trend to narrowcasting in narrowcasting narrow narrowcasting serving small networks of people with specialized information obviously I don't know anything about it well no you" - **Watch at 41:27**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zzQk8IwSJE&t=2487s) ### Example 3 > "But then other people, much smarter people, said, "Wait a minute. You can actually use cable for original programming. You can narrowcast. You can charge." Everything that was created, innovative, in television in the last 25 years was original cable programming. From HBO to MTV to CNN to ESPN. And the broadcast companies couldn't get it. And those giant franchises for the" - **Watch at 8:04**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jq6NvA7eKCM&t=484s) ### Example 4 > "You mean on cable or over broadband or Yeah, no, I of course. I mean, one of the things that broadband allows you to do is to narrowcast to an extreme never seen before. Right? And And since you do it globally, you have these interest and affinity groups that are even larger than the US market" - **Watch at 46:24**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jq6NvA7eKCM&t=2784s) ### Example 5 *Accent: US* > "Now we watch narrowcast news, right?" - **Watch at 50:53**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fhvx3-Qdp8&t=3053s) ### Example 6 > "media do is narrowcasting." - **Watch at 40:15**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=os2z4jbuuV4&t=2415s) ### Example 7 > "broadcasting to a system of narrowcasting, but it's also the understanding that it's about quality not about quantity; that it's about content rather than" - **Watch at 10:08**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUpybNIXLb8&t=608s) ### Example 8 > "to communicate using narrow marketing--narrowcasting and micro-marketing systems." - **Watch at 36:19**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUpybNIXLb8&t=2179s) ### Example 9 *Accent: US* > "host of more powerful tools uh for targeting and narrowcasting political" - **Watch at 34:56**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6l5QGuHqOY&t=2096s) ### Example 10 > "Right? And And since you do it globally, you have these interest and affinity groups that are even larger than the US market potentially. And you can definitely narrowcast much more than cable. Um you can also charge better. It's not just subscriptions. You can sell people items or stuff." - **Watch at 46:34**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jq6NvA7eKCM&t=2794s) ## How to Pronounce "narrowcast" - **Syllables**: nar · row · cast - **IPA**: `/nærrɒwkæst/` - **Listen for**: the stressed syllable in the clips above — notice how surrounding sounds blend in natural speech. ## Related Words ### Word Forms [narrowcasts](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/narrowcasts), [narrowcasted](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/narrowcasted), [narrowcasting](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/narrowcasting), [narrowcaster](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/narrowcaster) ## Frequently Asked Questions ### How do you pronounce “narrowcast”? “narrowcast” is pronounced /nærrɒwkæst/ (nar · row · cast). Listen to the native-speaker clips above to hear it in real conversation. ### How many syllables are in “narrowcast”? “narrowcast” has 3 syllables: nar · row · cast. ### What does “narrowcast” mean? To transmit a programme to selected individuals or groups, especially via cable. ### How can I hear “narrowcast” used in real sentences? This page has 15 real-world video examples of “narrowcast” with synchronized subtitles. 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