| Description |
1 online resource (216 pages) : illustrations, map |
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Media manual |
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Media manuals.
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| Contents |
Front Cover; An Introduction to SNG and ENG Microwave; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1. Introduction; Chapter 2. Basic overview of the role of ENG/SNG; Chapter 3. Definitions; Chapter 4. Principal elements in covering an event; Chapter 5. Analogue theory; Chapter 6. The TV picture; Chapter 7. Digital; Chapter 8. Terrestrial microwave links; Chapter 9. Fresnel zones; Chapter 10. Digital modulation in ENG microwave; Chapter 11. Transmission and reception chains; Chapter 12. Antennas; Chapter 13. Trucks and masts; Chapter 14. Setting up a link; Chapter 15. Mid-points. |
| Summary |
An excellent primer on the subject, this book gives beginning professionals in satellite newsgathering an introduction to the technologies and processes involved. It will also suit journalists, editors and producers needing to understand this important element of the newsgathering chain. Written for the complete beginner, the book shows how typical transmission chains work and their communication with the studio. It also offers a brief introduction to analogue and digital theory before going onto to explain Electronic Newsgathering (ENG) systems: from basic principles: transmission and receptio. |
| Subject |
Direct broadcast satellite television.
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Microwave communication systems.
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Electronic news gathering.
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Satellite master antenna television.
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Télévision par satellite. |
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Systèmes de communication à micro-ondes. |
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Journalisme électronique. |
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Satellite master antenna television |
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Direct broadcast satellite television |
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Electronic news gathering |
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Microwave communication systems |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Higgins, Jonathan. Introduction to SNG and ENG microwave. Oxford [England] ; Boston : Focal Press, 2004 0240516621 9780240516622 (DLC) 2003049431 (OCoLC)52902660 |
| ISBN |
9780080495859 (electronic bk.) |
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0080495850 (electronic bk.) |
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9781136055454 |
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1136055452 |
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