broadcastress

English

Etymology

From broadcaster +‎ -ess.

Noun

broadcastress (plural broadcastresses)

1. (rare, dated) A female broadcaster.
   • 1931 July 5, F. P. A., The Kansas City Star, volume 51, number 291, Kansas City, Mo., page 10 D, column 6:

     To the Broadcastresses. […] Your voice, be’t ne’er so sweet and low, / Is raucous on the radio.

   • 1936 June 6, “This Week in Pictures”, in Motion Picture Herald, volume 123, number 10, page 44:

     Jane Wyman (right), Kansas City broadcastress, whom Warner has placed under contract for screen roles.

   • 1937 September 17, Norman Siegel, “Kathryn Cravens, Flying Reporter, Is Radio Version of ‘Sob-Sister’”, in Wilkes-Barre Times Leader, Wilkes-Barre, Pa., page 26:

     The interest in people she developed on those trips is responsible for her present success as a broadcastress, she believes.

   • 1943 October 23, “Zoe Beckley’s Column”, in Muncie Evening Press, volume L, number 266, Muncie, Ind., page 2, column 6:

     But I suppose one can’t steal the time a dozen or two sponsors are paying for to talk personal stuff even if it’s about their own broadcastress!

   • 1945 September 22, “New High of 51 in Work; Five Finished, 8 Shooting”, in Motion Picture Herald, volume 160, number 12, page 47, column 2:

     Lotus Long is portraying the broadcastress named in the title, and Osa Massen, Byron Barr and Don Douglas are in the cast.

   • 1954 March 10, “Literati”, in Variety, volume 194, number 1, New York, N.Y., page 69, column 1:

     The WCBS (N. Y.) broadcastress, with three other vimful and vigorous grannies, are here encased in a series of Anglo-French-Italo travelogs done with diverting prose and an eye on the anecdotal snapper.