Technology / Television (TV) Glossary

Broadband Services: High-speed cable Internet, digital cable and digital phone services all through a single pipeline.

Broadcast Calendar: This standard Broadcast calendar, created in the 1960s, is designed to conform to the uniform billing period adopted by Broadcasters, Agencies and Advertisers for billing and planning functi . . . View Full Definition

Broadcast Coverage Area: The geographic area that receives a signal from an originating television station.

Broadcast Standards And Practices (BSP): The units within TV networks that make sure offensive material is not broadcast--TV's internal censors.

Bug: A small network or station logo superimposed in a corner of the frame.

C-Band: Signal frequency range (3.70-4.20ghz).

Cable Television (Cable Tv Or Catv): A television distribution system whereby TV signals are transmitted via cable (insulated wire), rather than through the air, to TV sets subscribers in a community or locality. Cable televisi . . . View Full Definition

Caller Id: A feature in some satellite receivers that displays the caller's telephone number on your TV if the phone rings while you're watching TV.

Camera Obscura: A darkened chamber with a hole in one wall through which light enters, creating an image of the outdoors on the opposite wall. It was the earliest form of a 'camera,' and is where the name derives.

Camera Operator: The person who actually handles the film or video camera.

Campaign: A specific advertising effort on behalf of a particular product or service which extends for a specified period of time.

Cardioid Microphone: A unidirectional microphone with most of its sensitivity aimed toward the front, and a pickup pattern that resembles an inverted heart.

Castle Rock Broadcast Center: The facility which provides directv with television reception, playback, encoding, and up-linking.

Category Development Index (CDI): A measure of the relationship of a specific category's sales to population in a specific geographic area. The CDI is derived by dividing an area's percent of total U.S. sales by that area's . . . View Full Definition

Cathode Ray Tube (CRT): A television picture tube. The cathode ray excites the pixels to create the video image.

Cause-Effect Chain: In narrative structure, the way one event leads to (causes) another and is the result (effect) of a previous event.

Cel (Celluloid): A transparent sheet of plastic, on which images are drawn and painted in the production of animation.

Channel: A 6 mhz (bandwidth) section of broadcasting spectrum allocated for one analog NTSC transmission.

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