broadcast technician
Broadcast technicians install, start up, maintain, monitor and repair equipment used for the transmission and reception of television and radio broadcast signals. They ensure that all materials are available in a suitable format of transmittable quality according to the transmission deadline. Broadcast technicians also maintain and repair this equipment.
Also called: broadcast transmitting technician, broadcasting engineer, broadcast transmitter operator, broadcasting equipment operator, broadcasting technician, broadcast transmitting equipment operator, broadcast technicians, broadcast engineering technician
- 19
- essential skills
- 23
- optional skills
- 8
- related roles
- 3521
- ISCO-08 group
Where you can go from here
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Essential skills
19- audiovisual products
- broadcast equipment
- calibrate electronic instruments
- coordinate activities in audio recording studio
- electronics principles
- install low voltage wiring
- maintain audiovisual equipment
- maintain electrical equipment
- maintain electronic equipment
- manage sound quality
- media formats
- meet deadlines
- monitor quality of broadcasts
- multimedia systems
- operate audio equipment
- operate electronic measuring instruments
- select recording source
- set up broadcast equipment
- use audio reproduction software
Optional skills
23- adjust video transmissions
- administer ICT system
- align antennae with receiving dishes
- assemble video tape footage
- assist multimedia operator
- audio technology
- audiovisual equipment
- broadcast using Internet Protocol
- develop programming schedule
- edit recorded sound
- execute integration testing
- ICT communications protocols
- maintain broadcast equipment
- maintain internet protocol configuration
- operate audio-signal processors
- operate broadcast equipment
- operate remote broadcast equipment
- provide multimedia content
- record multi-track sound
- set up audiovisual peripheral equipment
- set up portable field transmission equipment
- set up sound equipment
- signal cues to announcers
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