title: Laravel Broadcast Event not firing
body: <p>I am trying to broadcast an event every time a new market snapshot is created. I followed the laravel tutorial <a href="https://laravel.com/docs/5.4/broadcasting" rel="nofollow noreferrer">here</a>.</p>
  
  <p>But it seems I am missing something since even the log is not being created:</p>
  
  <pre><code>    namespace App\Events;
  
      use Illuminate\Broadcasting\Channel;
      use Illuminate\Queue\SerializesModels;
      use Illuminate\Broadcasting\PrivateChannel;
      use Illuminate\Broadcasting\PresenceChannel;
      use Illuminate\Foundation\Events\Dispatchable;
      use Illuminate\Broadcasting\InteractsWithSockets;
      use Illuminate\Contracts\Broadcasting\ShouldBroadcast;
  
      class NewMarketSnapshot implements ShouldBroadcast
      {
          use Dispatchable, InteractsWithSockets, SerializesModels;
  
          /**
           * Create a new event instance.
           *
           * @return void
           */
          public function __construct()
          {
              //
          }
  
          /**
           * Get the channels the event should broadcast on.
           *
           * @return Channel|array
           */
          public function broadcastOn()
          {
              \Log::info('event broadcasted');
  
              return new Channel('snapshot');
          }
      }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I even registered the event in EventServiceProvider (not mentioned on the laravel link)</p>
  
  <pre><code>protected $listen = [
      'App\Events\NewMarketSnapshot' =&gt; [
        'App\Listeners\NewMarketSnapshotListener',
      ],
  ];
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The handler is being called but the event is not being broadcasted.</p>
  
  <pre><code>    namespace App\Listeners;
  
      use App\Events\NewMarketSnapshot;
      use Illuminate\Queue\InteractsWithQueue;
      use Illuminate\Contracts\Queue\ShouldQueue;
      use \Log;
  
      class NewMarketSnapshotListener
      {
          /**
           * Create the event listener.
           *
           * @return void
           */
          public function __construct()
          {
              //
          }
  
          /**
           * Handle the event.
           *
           * @param  NewMarketSnapshot  $event
           * @return void
           */
          public function handle(NewMarketSnapshot $event)
          {
              Log::info('handler called.');
          }
      }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Testing with the simple route:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Route::get('/test', function(){
      $snapshot = ['USD'=&gt;100];
      return event(new App\Events\NewMarketSnapshot($snapshot));
  });
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Lines in my .env file</p>
  
  <pre><code>BROADCAST_DRIVER=redis
  CACHE_DRIVER=file
  SESSION_DRIVER=file
  QUEUE_DRIVER=redis
  
  REDIS_HOST=127.0.0.1
  REDIS_PASSWORD=null
  REDIS_PORT=6379
  </code></pre>