Television Engineering

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

Prerequisites

• Electronics

Goals

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

• Reference Materials
• Scope
• Aspects

Planned materials

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

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