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Throwing your voice at everyone and hoping someone catches it.
means Sending audio, video, or messages out to a wide, unseen audience all at once.
from From farming: to broadcast was to scatter seed by flinging it widely by hand, not in neat rows — radio borrowed the metaphor in the 1920s.
Seed firstMeant scattering seeds long before scattering signals.
One-to-manyDefined by direction: no reply expected back.
Public airwavesSpectrum is leased from governments, not owned.