Television Engineering

This page is for developing shared learning resources that pertain to Television and Broadcast from Engineering and Technology aspects.

Prerequisites

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Goals

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This learning project offers learning activities to familiarize you with the technical concepts of television engineering.

  • Deployment of television facilities - overview;
  • Deploying networks in the TV plant

Learning Materials

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Planned materials

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Television (index and main article)

  • Course Introduction
  • The business of content production and delivery
  • Physical plant infrastructure
  • The cable plant
  • Monitoring, test, and measurement
  • Commonality with networking infrastructures
  • Mission critical - system redundancy
  • Signal flow management
  • Documentation
  • Definitions

Resources

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Industry advocacy and standards organizations

  • Society of Motion Picture & Television Engineers (SMPTE) [1]
  • Society of Broadcast Engineers (SBE) [2]
  • Audio Engineering Society (AES) [3]
  • American National Standards Institute (ANSI) [4]

Trade journals and publications

  • The SMPTE Journal
  • Broadcast Engineering
  • TV Technology