Chapter 1 The Television Production Industry

A television advertisement for a product or service. Also commonly called a spot.

• home video

• network

• affiliate

• ad

The television signal travels through the air from one antenna to another antenna.

• broadcast

• closed circuit television

• corporate television

• home video

Television that aims to inform the public about various topics. This includes television programming like Sesame Street, Barney, Dora the Explorer

• industrial television

• broadcast

• closed circuit

• educational television

Television that communicates relevant information to a specific audience, such as a job training videos. Also commonly called corporate television.

• spot

• ad

• industrial television

• broadcast

A form of CCTV that is usually but not always used for security purposes. Around banks, prisons, stores, etc. The cameras used in the system are always interconnected to a closed circuit television system.

• surveillance television

• closed circuit television

• educational television

• industrial television

The process of making a specified number of program episodes available for "lease" to other networks or individual broadcast stations, after the current network's contract for the program expires.

• ad

• syndication

• broadcast

• affiliate

programming made in a specific geographic area, to be shown to the public in the same geographic area.

• local origination

• syndication

• broadcast

• home video