BROADCAST ENGINEER
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DEFINITION
Designs, installs, operates, maintains, repairs, and modifies all types of specialized equipment in a modern broadcast television studio and a motion picture post-production studio.

TYPICAL DUTIES
Designs, operates, installs, maintains, and/or repairs a wide variety of equipment used in TV studios, such as Plumbicon and CCD (Charged Coupled Devices) cameras, digital cameras, serial and parallel digital VCRs, production studio video switchers, helical recorders, digital time-base correctors, TV sync generators, monitors, vectorscopes, waveform monitors, complex audio mixing consoles, digital special effects equipment, computer controlled videotape editors, non-linear digital video editors, mechanical systems, vidicon film camera chains, remote control systems, alarms, intercom systems, low voltage power and control systems, projection and film sound equipment such as sound recorders, reproducers, interlock systems and synchronizers.


SUPERVISION
General supervision is received from a Supervising Broadcast Engineer. Work direction may be given to students and Electronics Technicians in the absence of a Supervising Broadcast Engineer.


Knowledge of:
Principles of electricity (AC and DC), electronics, sound, optics, physics, semiconductors,
magnetics, and electromagnetic propagation
Advanced electronic principles such as A/D and D/A conversion, and digital processing and digital
computers