slivercast

English

Etymology

Back-formation from slivercasting.

Noun

slivercast (plural slivercasts)

A video program _targetted at a niche market.
- 1989, Rajeev Batra, Rashi Glazer, Cable TV Advertising: In Search of the Right Formula, →ISBN, page 20:
  Yet slivercast services can be a valuable part of the basic cable package.
- 2006, Bart Beaty, Rebecca Sullivan, Canadian Television Today, →ISBN, page 21:
  The promises of interactive WebTV or downloadable “slivercasts” raise the possibility of dramatically altering how we watch and even use the television.
- 2007 June, Marcus Field, Vanessa Stoykov, “Online branding: the new frontier”, in InFinance: The Magazine for Finsia Members, volume 121, number 2:
  Because most viewers are accustomed to the way television delivers information, slivercasts are a logical extension of this format.

Verb

slivercast (third-person singular simple present slivercasts, present participle slivercasting, simple past slivercasted, past participle slivercast)

To deliver a slivercast on TV or the internet.
- 2011, Wilbur Zelinsky, Not Yet a Placeless Land: Tracking an Evolving American Geography, →ISBN:
  Also symptomatic of the new order of things has been the slivercasting of radio, television, and cyberspace audiences, as we have also noted above.

Anagrams

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