Broadcast Roles
In charge of all creative aspects of the program.
Who is the director?
A television signal that travels through the air from one antenna to another antenna?
What is broadcast?
A device that controls the video signal sent from the camera.
This government agency regulates broadcast signals.
The FCC- Federal Communications Commission
A universally used image containing colors needed to verify that all of the cameras are "seeing" the same colors.
What are color bars?
This person has the final authority in the newsroom.
Who is the News Director?
Type of program composed of feature packages, each covering a different story.
These are the nationally adopted standards for broadcast standards.
What is NTSC (national technical standards commission)
What is an affilliate?
A meter on either an audio or mic mixer that indicates signal strength.
What is a VU meter? (Volume Unit)
This person is a liaison between the control room and the studio.
A network of programming you sign up for and usually pay an additional fee to watch.
What is subscriber television?
The term for gathering news for television.
A corporation that bundles a collection of programs made exclusively to a group of television stations.
What is a network?
What is a Teleprompter?
Responsible for the technical quality of the video signal.
Who is the video engineer?
What is syndication?
Organization for licensing music for movies and television.
What is ASCAP- American society of composers, authors and publishers
Organization of media professionals, technology specialists and engineers.
SMPTE (Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers)
A piece of testing equipment that graphically measures the ways colors are structured in the video signal.
What is a waveform monitor?
This person makes news coverage assignments.
Who is the Assignment Editor?
This is in-house television, and serves a small, private area.
What is CCTV (Closed Circuit Television)?
This the list of cuts desired given to an editor.
This is the group responsible for awarding television shows.
What is NATAS- National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.
A piece of testing equipment that measures every aspect of an image, including the brightness and darkness of a video signal.
What is a waveform monitor?