Central apparatus room
WREX-TV
tech core, or CARIn broadcast facilities and
remote desktop
.
Equipment
Fuji TV
These rooms contain broadcast and broadcast
television programs
.
They contain broadcast and monitoring equipment, through which all the operations are monitored by the transmission engineer, without disturbing the studio recordings. CER may also house analog and digital TV transmission systems, satellite up-link systems, digital processing synchronizers, video patch panels, and audio patch panels, including video monitors.[2][3]
Common equipment
- 19-inch racks
- Antenna tracking system
- Audio router
- Broadcast delay
- Camera control units (CCUs)
- Conditional access system
- Character generator subtitling systems
- Distribution frame
- Digital TV encoder
- Fiber optic transceiver
- Frame synchronizers
- GPSreceivers
- High-power amplifiers for transmission (television transmitter)
- Integrated receiver/decoder (IRD)
- IF distribution.
- Media storage
- Multiplexer
- Network switch
- Audio monitoring tools
- Radio frequency devices
- Router
- Serial digital interface (SDI) audio de-embedder
- Talkback (recording)
- Transport stream analyzer
- VCRs(formerly, replaced with video servers)
- Video router
- Video server (also called playout server)
- Video switcherframe or main unit
- video monitoring tools
- Video monitor
- Vectorscope
- Waveform monitor
See also
- Broadcast engineering
- Data center
- Master control room(MCR)
- Network operations center (NOC)
- Production control room (PCR)
- Server room
- Server farm
- Transmission control room (TCR)
References
- ^ Clyde Broadcast – The CTA (Central Technical Area) Archived July 8, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Faculty of Communication – Confluence – The Ravensbourne Wiki – Central Apparatus Room (CAR) Archived September 27, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Bob Zelin U N L E A S H E D Series – Why do you want Central Machine Room? Archived September 2, 2007, at the Wayback Machine