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[]

Television broadcasting can be described as all of the following:

• Technology
• Electronics technology
• Telecommunication technology
• Broadcasting technology

Types of television broadcasting[]

• Terrestrial television
• Closed-circuit television
• Outside broadcasting
• Direct broadcast satellite (DBS)

History of television broadcasting[]

• History of television

Television broadcasting technology[]

Infrastructure and broadcasting system[]

• Television set
  • List of television manufacturers
• Satellite television
• Microwave link
• Television receive-only
• Television transmitter
• Transposer
• Transmitter station

System standards[]

• 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[]

Video signal[]

• 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[]

• Multichannel television sound
• NICAM
• Pre-emphasis
• Sound in syncs
• Zweikanalton

Broadcast signal[]

• 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[]

• Amplitude modulation
• Frequency mixer
• Frequency modulation
• Quadrature amplitude modulation
• Vestigial sideband modulation (VSBF)

IF and RF signal[]

• 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[]

• Colorburst
• Color killer
• Color television
• Dot crawl
• Hanover bars
• NTSC
• PAL
• PAL-M
• PALplus
• PAL-S
• SECAM

Stages and output equipment[]

• Amplifiers
• Antenna (radio)
• Cavity amplifier
• Diplexer
• Dipole antenna
• Dummy load
• Electronic filter
• Tetrode
• Klystron

Measuring instruments[]

• Distortionmeter
• Field strength meter
• Oscilloscope
• Multimeter
• Network analyzer
• Psophometer
• Vectorscope

Television broadcasting by country[]

See also[]

• Outline of communication
• Outline of telecommunication
• Outline of radio

External links[]

• 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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