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Overview
Broadcast technicians install, start, monitor, maintain and repair equipment used to transmit and receive television and radio signals.
In job descriptions, look for signal transmission, reception equipment, studio or field links, broadcast deadlines, format checks, monitoring, fault repair, cabling, audio-video systems and maintenance.
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Open in Job ExplorerWhat the work can involve
Broadcast technical work happens around studios, control rooms, transmitters, outside links and strict transmission deadlines. The technician keeps signal paths, formats and equipment ready for live or scheduled output.
Skills and specializations
Useful skills include cabling, audio-video systems, signal monitoring, equipment setup, preventive maintenance, fault tracing and calm handover when a transmission problem appears close to air time.
Salary context
Pay context depends on live broadcast responsibility, shift or on-call work, equipment complexity, maintenance scope, field work and authority to solve faults during transmission. This guide does not provide salary amounts.
Career paths
Career paths can move from equipment setup and monitoring into senior broadcast engineering, control-room coordination, outside-broadcast support, maintenance planning or audiovisual systems work.
Good to know
Check whether the vacancy names studio, transmitter, field link or network work, plus deadlines, formats, monitoring tools and repair responsibility.
Editorial note
This guide is editorial career context, not official labour-market statistics or role-specific pay data.
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O*NET relationships
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O*NET relationships: 1
Broadcast Technicians
27-4012.00
Exact relationship
The official mapping treats the O*NET and ESCO occupations as closely equivalent.
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Relationship direction: O*NET occupation to ESCO occupation.
Several O*NET occupations can point to the same ESCO occupation, and one O*NET occupation can point to several ESCO occupations.
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Alternative labels
Occupation group
Broadcasting and audiovisual technicians (3521)
Source facts
| ESCO URI | http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/fe4a72af-6206-4d86-90c1-b5fb4b5ba2b2 |
|---|---|
| ESCO code | 3521.2 |
| ISCO group | 3521 |
| Concept type | Occupation |