Outline of television broadcasting explained

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
• 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

• 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

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• • • • • • • • Television in Afghanistan Television in Albania Television in Andorra Television in Angola Television in Argentina Television in Australia Television in Austria Television in Azerbaijan
                • Television in Bangladesh Television in Barbados Television in Belarus Television in Belgium Television in Bermuda Television in Bosnia and Herzegovina Television in Brazil Television in Bulgaria Television in Burma
• Television in Burundi
  • • Television in Canada Television in Chile Television in the People's Republic of China
• Television in the Republic of China
  • • • • Television in Colombia Television in Croatia Television in Cuba Television in Cyprus Television in the Czech Republic
      • Television in Denmark Television in Ecuador Television in Egypt Television in England (see Television in the United Kingdom)
  • Television in Estonia Television in Finland
  • Television in France Television in the Faroe Islands
    • Television in Georgia Television in Germany Television in Greece
• Television in Honduras
• Television in Hong Kong
• Television in Hungary
  • • • Television in Iceland Television in India Television in Indonesia Television in Iraq
    • Television in Ireland Television in Israel Television in Italy
  • Television in Jamaica Television in Japan
• Television in Kyrgyzstan

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• • • • • • • • • • • • • Television in Latvia Television in Lebanon Television in Liechtenstein Television in Lithuania Television in the Isle of Man Television in Malaysia Television in Mali Television in Malta Television in Mexico Television in Moldova Television in Monaco Television in Montenegro Television in Burma
      • Television in Nauru Television in the Netherlands Television in New Zealand Television in North Korea
  • Television in North Macedonia Television in Norway
    • • • • • Television in Pakistan Television in Peru Television in the Philippines Television in Poland Television in Portugal Television in Romania Television in Russia
  • Television in San Marino Television in Saudi Arabia
    • • • Television in Scotland Television in Senegal Television in Serbia Television in Singapore Television in Slovakia
          • • • Television in Slovenia Television in South Africa Television in South Korea Television in Spain Television in Sri Lanka Television in Sweden Television in Switzerland Television in Republic of China
        • Television in Thailand Television in Trinidad and Tobago Television in Turkey Television in Ukraine Television in the United Kingdom
    • Television in the United States Television in Uruguay Television in Venezuela
• Television in Vietnam
• Television in Wales (see Television in the United Kingdom)
• Television in Western Sahara
• Television in Yemen

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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