Job description Broadcast Technician in Newfoundland and Labrador
Find out what work is like for a broadcast technician in Canada. This work description is applicable to all Broadcast technicians (NOC 52112).
Broadcast technicians
Description
Broadcast technicians install, set up, test, operate and repair electronic equipment used to record and transmit live and taped radio and television programs and to produce audio and video streaming broadcasts for the Internet. They are employed by radio and television broadcasting networks and stations, by broadcast equipment companies and by Internet-based communication providers.
Job duties
- Monitor broadcast quality of live and taped radio and television programs
- Operate and monitor radio and television broadcasting systems to broadcast, receive signals and to regulate clarity and range of sounds and colours of recordings or broadcasts
- Operate broadcast equipment to produce audio and video streaming broadcasts for the Internet
- Make emergency repairs to equipment and substitute programs in case of signal failure
- Maintain, install and troubleshoot a wide variety of broadcast hardware and software
- Set up and operate consoles to pick up and select feed sources from different locations and to air radio or television programs and commercials
- May supervise other broadcast technicians.
Job titles
- broadcast technician
- broadcast transmitter operator
- broadcasting switcher
- master control room (MCR) equipment operator - broadcasting
- master control room (MCR) technician - broadcasting
- mobile broadcasting equipment operator
- regional transmitter technician
- short-wave receiving station technician
- video transmission operator
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