Looking for the media equivalent of "televised"

Question

If you say "an event has been televised", it means that the event has been recorded for or transmitted by television.

Media covers not only television, but also radio, newspapers and the Internet.

What is the equivalent of "televised" for the more generic term of media?

The best I can think of is "an event has been media-ised". Is there a better (or more correct) word for this?

Answer 1

For a one-word equivalent that's broader in scope than televised, I would try covered.

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/coverage

Answer 2

It originated with print media, but publish can easily be used in a broader context:

1 a : to make generally known
b : to make public announcement of

2 a : to disseminate to the public
b : to produce or release for distribution; specifically : print 2c
c : to issue the work of (an author)
_{source: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/publish}

Or, as Dan Bron points out, you can go a little father back up the etymological chain, and use publicize:

: to cause (something) to be publicly known : to give information about (something) to the public
_{source: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/publicize}

Answer 3

We use the expressions:

"It's been in the media." "It's all over the media." "It's forefront in the media." (US)

Answer 4

The general term for "reported by the media" (other than reported, and its non-media-specific synonyms, of course) is "broadcast".

From the American Heritage Dictionary (AHD) entry

broadcast:

1. To communicate or transmit (a signal, a message, or content, such as audio or video programming) to numerous recipients simultaneously over a communication network: a radio station that broadcasts news; an agency broadcasting an appeal for donations over the Internet.

2. To make known over a wide area: reporters who broadcast unchecked rumors in order to get the story out first; "The birds sang in flight because that was the only way, in this treeless terrain, to broadcast their claims across their chosen pieces of land" (Kenn Kaufman).

See synonyms at announce.

The word is abstract, and can be used for any kind of conspicuous announcement to the general public or any large audience. In recent decades, it is more often associated with radio, television, and the internet, but is has and continues to be used of print journalism as well.

For example, from an issue of "The Nineteenth Century and After" published in 1916, when newspapers were the dominant form of journalism, radio was not yet popular, and TV hadn't even been invented, Fernand Passelecq wrote:

Belgian Unity and the Flemish Movement

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As soon as their works were published their conclusions were broadcast in the papers, from the beginning of 1915 onwards, by a legion of publicists writing thousands of articles on the subject. It is a methodic action, somewhat ...

In media jargon, there is also the phrase "put on the wire".

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Bonus fact of the day: when I looked this word up in order to have a dictionary to reference in this answer, I learned that broadcast came from the practice of sowing a field by casting seeds out over a broad area (as opposed to carefully dropping them in a line along a furrough, I suppose).

Answer 5

This discussion describes one popular means of “delivering media” (streaming) and makes multiple references to ‘streaming’ as one kind of “delivery method [of media].” The discussion's repeated use of multiple forms of the generic word “deliver” in this context leads me to propose “delivered” as a possible alternative to use in place of your clever “media-ised”:

The Final Four Games were delivered by TBS, TNT and TruTV; and the Championship Game by CBS.

Other generic verbs similar to “delivered” used in the linked discussion of ‘streaming’ include “presented,” “distributed,” and (contained in your question) “transmitted,” all of which are, in my opinion, media-relevant while being media-type neutral, and as such could also replace “media-ised .”

Answer 6

to air

is quite general

air

transitive v.

2 b : to expose for the sake of public notice : make open to the public

he did not air his politics in the pulpit — K. B. Murdock

the issue will be thoroughly aired — Newsweek

3 : to transmit by radio or television : broadcast

programs which will be aired in the future — Musical Digest

Merriam-Webster Unabridged Dictionary

E.g.,

Billboard - 27 Nov 1999 - Page 64 Vol. 111, No. 48 - ‎Magazine

The event was aired live on MTV Europe and was also broadcast later the same night with a taped delay on the UK's terrestrial TV network ITV and on Ireland's national terrestrial network RTE.