Broadcast
Broadcast verb - To cause to be known over a considerable area or by many people.
Usage example: broadcast the information only to people who needed to know
Obscure
Obscure verb - To keep secret or shut off from view.
Usage example: the investigative reporters obscured their real motives for visiting the company by pretending the story was about something else
Both words in one sentence
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Mystery Science Theater 3000 had this effect on many of the films it featured, all of which had originally been chosen because they were so obscure that the rights to broadcast them were cheap.
Source: Colbert Bump - The other is fairly obscure (being briefly broadcast on a smaller satellite station), and was called "Powerpuff Girls Underground".
Source: Dueling Dubs -
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: Popular to the point of ubiquity on the internet, but still relatively obscure to a lot of people who don't go online much, or don't get the cable channel the show is broadcast on.
Source: Pop-Culture Isolation
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