Facilities with sufficient staff and equipment to produce multi-camera, large-budget programming shot on location or in studios for broadcast networks or cable networks.
Large-scale Video Production Company
A form of a visual resume. A short compilation of the best work you have produced that is given to a potential client or employer.
Reel
A television advertisement for a product or service. Also commonly known as an ad.
Spot
Businesses with limited staff and equipment resources. They thrive on producing videos of weddings, commercials for local businesses, home inventories for insurance purposes, seminars, legal depositions, real estate videos, and a variety of other recordings.
Small-scale Video Production Company
Video recordings of family events and activities taken by someone using a consumer camcorder.
Home Video
Television that seeks to inform the public about various topics. This includes television programming that supports classroom studies and replays classroom sessions.
Educational Television
Statistical information about the potential viewing audience, including age, race, gender, education, and economic level.
Demographics
Programming made in a specific geographic area, to be shown to the public in that same geographic area.
Local Origination
the process of a television signal traveling through the air from one antenna to another antenna.
Broadcast
Television where the signal is sent through wires and servers, only an extremely small private predetermined area.
Closed Circuit Television (CCTV)
A corporation that bundles a collection of programs (sports, news, and entertainment) and makes the program bundles available exclusively to its affiliates.
Network
Fee-for-service programming where customers pay scheduled fees based on the selected programming package. The television signals are transported by satellite transmission, by underground cables, or a combination of both.
Subscriber Television
Television that communicates relevant information to a specific audience, such as job training videos. Also commonly called corporate television.
Industrial Television
a broadcast station that has aligned itself with a particular network. The network provides a certain amount of hours of daily programming and it is responsible for providing the rest of programs to fill the schedule.
Affiliate
This type of television production facility is “for-profit.” The television signal is sent via a transmitter tower through the air and is free for anyone who has an antenna to receive it.
Commercial Broadcast Television
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.
Syndication