Outline of television broadcasting
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to television broadcasting:
Television broadcasting: form of broadcasting in which a television signal is transmitted by radio waves from a terrestrial (Earth based) transmitter of a television station to TV receivers having an antenna.
Nature of television broadcasting
[edit]Television broadcasting can be described as all of the following:
- Technology
- Electronics technology
- Telecommunication technology
- Broadcasting technology
Types of television broadcasting
[edit]- Terrestrial television
- Closed-circuit television
- Outside broadcasting
- Direct broadcast satellite (DBS)
History of television broadcasting
[edit]Television broadcasting technology
[edit]Infrastructure and broadcasting system
[edit]- Television set
- Satellite television
- TV broadcast
- Microwave link
- Television receive-only
- Television transmitter
- Transposer
- Transmitter station
- Television channels
- TV station
- Terrestrial frequency or virtual number
- Broadcast programming
- Television shows
System standards
[edit]- System A the 405 line system
- 441 line system
- Broadcast television systems
- System B
- System G
- System H
- System I
- System M
- Terrestrial television
Television signals
[edit]Video signal
[edit]- Analogue television synchronization
- Back porch
- Black level
- Blanking level
- Chrominance
- Composite video
- Frame (video)
- Front porch
- Horizontal blanking interval
- Horizontal scan rate
- Luma (video)
- Overscan
- Raster scan
- Television lines
- White clipper
- Vertical blanking interval
- VF bandwidth
- VIT signals
The sound signal
[edit]Broadcast signal
[edit]- Beam tilt
- Downlink CNR
- Earth bulge
- Frequency offset
- Field strength in free space
- Knife-edge effect
- Null fill
- Output power of an analog TV transmitter
- Path loss
- Radio propagation
- Radiation pattern
- Skew
- Television interference
Modulation and frequency conversion
[edit]- Amplitude modulation
- Frequency mixer
- Frequency modulation
- Quadrature amplitude modulation
- Vestigial sideband modulation (VSBF)
IF and RF signal
[edit]- Differential gain
- Differential phase
- Distortion
- Group delay and phase delay
- Intercarrier method
- Intermediate frequency
- Noise (electronics)
- Radio frequency
- Residual carrier
- Split sound system
- Superheterodyne transmitter
- Television channel frequencies
- Ultra high frequency
- Very high frequency
- Zero reference pulse
Color TV
[edit]Stages and output equipment
[edit]- Amplifiers
- Antenna (radio)
- Cavity amplifier
- Diplexer
- Dipole antenna
- Dummy load
- Electronic filter
- Tetrode
- Klystron
Measuring instruments
[edit]- Distortionmeter
- Field strength meter
- Oscilloscope
- Multimeter
- Network analyzer
- Psophometer
- Vectorscope
Television broadcasting by country
[edit]See also
[edit]External links
[edit]- TVRadioWorld TV stations directory
- W9WI.com (Terrestrial repeater and TV hobbyist information)
- TV Coverage maps and Signal Analysis
- A History of Television at the Canada Science and Technology Museum
- The Encyclopedia of Television at the Museum of Broadcast Communications
- The Evolution of TV, A Brief History of TV Technology in Japan NHK
- Television's History – The First 75 Years
- Worldwide Television Standards
- Global TV Market Data
- Television in Color, April 1944 one of the earliest magazine articles detailing the new technology of color television
- Littleton, Cynthia. "Happy 70th Birthday, TV Commercial broadcasts bow on July 1, 1941; Variety calls it 'corney'", Variety, July 1, 2011. WebCitation archive.
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