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O*NET detailed work activityOperate communications, transmissions, or broadcasting equipment
Stays humanBe there for people
8 jobs17 tasks
This depends on human connection: empathy, trust, being physically present and responding to someone in real time. People can tell the difference.
Part of Operate communications equipment or systems, under the O*NET work activity group Controlling Machines and Processes. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (0 AI-ready, 0 AI-assist, 17 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Set up and operate computer editing systems, electronic titling systems, video switching equipment, and digital video effects units to produce a final product.
- Set up, operate, and maintain broadcast station computers and networks.
- Play and record broadcast programs, using automation systems.
- Operate and maintain on-air and production audio equipment.
- Install broadcast equipment, troubleshoot equipment problems, and perform maintenance or minor repairs, using hand tools.
- Set up and perform live shots for broadcast.
- Transmit news stories or reporting information from remote locations, using equipment such as satellite phones, telephones, fax machines, or modems.
- Select sources from which programming will be received or through which programming will be transmitted.
- Operate equipment to produce programs or broadcast live programs from remote locations.
- Install, adjust, and operate electronic equipment to record, edit, and transmit radio and television programs, motion pictures, video conferencing, or multimedia presentations.
- Align antennae with receiving dishes to obtain the clearest signal for transmission of broadcasts from field locations.
- Substitute programs in cases where signals fail.
- Set up and operate portable field transmission equipment outside the studio.
- Direct setup of remote facilities and install or cancel programs at remote stations.
- Set up and operate electric news gathering (ENG) microwave vehicles to gather and edit raw footage on location to send to television affiliates for broadcast.
- Give network cues permitting selected stations to receive programs.