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Radio & TV broadcasting equipment
Any equipment used to transmit from one television/radio device to another.
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high definition television (HDTV)
Broadcasting & receiving; Radio & TV broadcasting equipment
In modern terms, broadcasting using a line standard of greater than 1000. Prior to World War II, "high definition" was used to mean a line standard greater than 240 lines.
hammocking
Broadcasting & receiving; Radio & TV broadcasting equipment
Placing a new or poorly-performing programme between two established popular programmes in order to boost viewing figures.
gigahertz (GHZ)
Broadcasting & receiving; Radio & TV broadcasting equipment
Thousand million cycles per second. The measurement for satellite frequencies.
front sell
Broadcasting & receiving; Radio & TV broadcasting equipment
The act of introducing a song about to be played.
fps - frames per second
Broadcasting & receiving; Radio & TV broadcasting equipment
The number of times the television is refreshed in a second of time. As a rule of thumb, this is the same as the local Alternating Current electricity supply - 60 Hz or 50 Hz.
format clock
Broadcasting & receiving; Radio & TV broadcasting equipment
A format clock is a diagram produced by a programme director or a producer to illustrate where each programming element appears in a typical hour.
feedback
Broadcasting & receiving; Radio & TV broadcasting equipment
A loud noise produced when the amplified sound from an output ( loudspeaker ) is picked up by an input ( microphone, phonograph ) feeding that loudspeaker.
