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

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

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

 * 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
 * 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
 * Television in Western Sahara
 * Television in Yemen