Television Term of the Week
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Television Term of the Week: Datacasting
Datacasting 1. Datacasting (data broadcasting) is the broadcasting of data over a wide area via radio waves. It most often…
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Television Term of the Week: Advanced Television System Committee
Advanced Television System Committee 1. Advanced Television System Committee (ATSC) uses eight-level vestigial sideband (8VSB) for terrestrial broadcasting. This standard…
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Television Term of the Week: Digital Television
Digital Television 1. Digital television (DTV) is the transmission of audio and video by digitally processed and multiplexed signal, in…
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Television Term of the Week: NTSC
NTSC 1. NTSC, named for the National Television System Committee, is the analog television system that is used in most…
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Television Term of the Week: Broadcast Television Systems
Broadcast Television Systems 1. Broadcast television systems are encoding or formatting standards for the transmission and reception of terrestrial television…
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Television Term of the Week: Strip Programming
Strip Programming 1. Strip programming or stripping is a technique used for scheduling television and radio programming to ensure consistency…
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Television Term of the Week: Block Programming
Block Programming 1. Block programming or television block is a strategy of broadcast programming and radio programmers. Block programming can…
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Television Term of the Week: Primetime
Primetime 1. Prime time or primetime is the block of broadcast programming taking place during the middle of the evening…
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Television Term of the Week: Television Director
Television Director 1. A television director is usually responsible for directing the actors and other filmed aspects of a television…
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Television Term of the Week: Television Studio
Television Studio 1. A television studio is an installation in which video productions take place, either for the recording of…
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Television Term of the Week: Opening Credits
Opening Credits 1. The opening credits are shown at the very beginning and list the most important members of the…
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Television Term of the Week: 100 Episodes
100 Episodes 1. In the U.S. television industry, 100 episodes is the traditional threshold for a television series to become…
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Television Term of the Week: Television
Television 1. Television (TV) is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome (black-and-white) or…
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Television Term of the Week: Showrunner
Showrunner 1. “Showrunner” is a term originating in the United States television industry referring to the person who is responsible…
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Television Term of the Week: Breakfast Television
Breakfast Television Breakfast television (Australia, Ireland, New Zealand and United Kingdom) or morning show (Canada, the Philippines and United States),…
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Television Term of the Week: Reality Television
Reality Television 1. Reality television is a genre of television programming that documents unscripted situations and actual occurrences, and often…
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Television Term of the Week: Pre-production
Pre-production 1. Pre-production begins when a script is approved. A director is chosen to plan the episode’s final look. Pre-production…
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Television Term of the Week: Television Producer
Television Producer 1. The primary role of a television producer is to oversee all aspects of video production. Some producers…
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Television Term of the Week: Miniseries
Miniseries 1. A miniseries (also mini-series) is a television show production which tells a single story in a limited number…
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Television Term of the Week: Television Program
Television Program 1. A television program…, also called television show, is a segment of content intended for broadcast on television.…
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