3 Radio and Podcasts
Careers in Radio and Podcasts
▸ Broadcast engineer: A broadcast engineer oversees the equipment responsible for the transmission of radio programming. This can include broadcast towers, studio-to-transmitter links (STLs), satellite feeds, and remote broadcasting equipment (for example, to cover special events like sports or political conventions). Ann Charles elaborates on the difference between broadcast engineers and sound engineers in the UK: “Broadcast engineer is a really broad term,” she says. “It’s a spectrum of jobs, where there is some overlap between a broadcast engineer and sound engineer. However, a sound engineer is not a broadcast engineer,” she emphasizes. “A sound engineer specializes in sound: they might ...
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