# 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

## 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
* Over the top media service
* Video on demand
* Digital television
* Television show
* List of broadcasting terms
* Streaming media

### 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