1
A Beginner’s Guide to the Television Industry
A. What Is Television?
What is television?
As a threshold matter, understanding the business and law of television requires a working definition of the term. And while the general notion of “television” is no doubt familiar to everybody, a functional definition can prove surprisingly elusive.
Is television a technological medium? In its earliest iteration, television could be understood in essentially technological terms—a telecommunications medium for transmitting audiovisual information via radio frequency electromagnetic waves, typically in the “very high frequency” (VHF) or “ultra high frequency” (UHF) spectrum ranges. Yet from very early in the history of the television industry, alternative ...
Get The Business of Television now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
