Areas of Television Production
This type of television production is for-profit. The television signal is sent al via a transmitter tower through the air and signal is free for anyone with an antenna to receive it.
What is Commerical Broadcast Television?
A person who operates the camera setup on a semi-permanent basis inside a studio.
What is Studio Camera Operator?
The person who delivers the news from the news desk set in the studio.
What is Anchor?
A position on a film set that ensures the talent follows the script.
What is Script Supervisor?
Statistical information about the potential viewing audience including age, gender, race, education, and economic level.
What is Demographics?
A pay-for-service programming where customers pay scheduled fees based on the selected programming package.
What is Subscriber Television?
The person who is the director's eyes and ears in the studio and relay's the director's commands to the studio personnel.
What is Stage Manager?
The person responsible for the structure of the newsroom, for personal matters, managing budget, and the overall effectiveness of the newsroom.
What is News Director?
The person who provides general assistance around the studio or production facility. Commonly hired to fill a variety of positions.
What is Production Assistant?
Programming made in a specific geographic area, to be shown to the pubic in that same geographic area.
What is Local Origination?
Television that aims to inform the public about various topics and is usually considered nonprofit.
What is Educational Television?
The person who operates the video switcher and oversees the live switching between cameras on multi-camera shoots.
What is Technical Director?
The cameraperson who goes into the field on location with a reporter in a news operation.
What is Field Photographer?
The person who provides the funding necessary to produce the program.
What is Executive Producer?
The process of making a specified number of program episodes available for "lease" to other networks or individual broadcast stations, after the current network's contract for the program expires.
What is Syndication?
Television that communicates relevant information to a specific audience, Such as job training videos.
What is Industrial Television?
The person who creates the titles for the program using a character generator.
What is CG Operator?
The person responsible for gathering information from many sources including research and interviews, writing stories, and often editing their own stories.
What is Reporter?
On a film set, this person is in charge of the production's shooting schedule and for communicating with all the talent about call times, wardrobe, and location, etc.
What is Assistant Director?
A broadcast station that has aligned itself with a particular network.
What is Affiliate?
A form of CCTV that is usually, but not always, used for security purposes.
What is Surveillance Television?
The person who manages the video equipment and is Ultimately responsible for the technical quality of the video signal.
What is Video Engineer?
The person who schedules the equipment and personnel to cover the stories for the day's newscast.
What is Assignment editor?
The person who handles the business portion of the production by negotiating the fees for goods, services, and other contracts and by determining the staffing requirements based on the needs of each production.
What is Production Manager?
A corporation that bundles a collection of programs (sports, news, entertainment) and makes the program bundles available exclusively to its affiliates.
What is Network?