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  2. Category:Television terminology - Wikipedia

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    Echo (communications protocol) Edit decision list; Educational television; Effects of time zones on North American broadcasting; EIAJ-1; Electromagnetic interference; Electronic field production; Electronic news gathering; Electronic program guide; Electronic sell-through; Episode; Establishing shot; Event television; Extra (acting) Eyeline match

  3. Glossary of broadcasting terms - Wikipedia

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    Also AM radio or AM. Used interchangeably with kilohertz (kHz) and medium wave. A modulation technique used in electronic communication where the amplitude (signal strength) of the wave is varied in proportion to that of the message signal. Developed in the early 1900s, this technique is most commonly used for transmitting an audio signal via a radio wave measured in kilohertz (kHz). See AM ...

  4. Cable television - Wikipedia

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    A cable channel (sometimes known as a cable network) is a television network available via cable television. Many of the same channels are distributed through satellite television. Alternative terms include non-broadcast channel or programming service, the latter being mainly used in legal contexts.

  5. QAM (television) - Wikipedia

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    QAM is used in a variety of communications systems such as Dial-up modems and WiFi. In cable systems, a QAM tuner is linked to the cable in a manner that is equivalent to an ATSC tuner which is required to receive over-the-air (OTA) digital channels broadcast by local television stations when attached to an antenna. Most new HDTV digital ...

  6. List of United States pay television channels - Wikipedia

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    The following is a list of pay television networks or channels broadcasting or receivable in the United States, organized by broadcast area and genre.. Some television providers use one or more channel slots for east/west feeds, high definition services, secondary audio programming and access to video on demand.

  7. Television in the United States - Wikipedia

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    In the United States, television is available via broadcast (also known as "over-the-air" or OTA) – the earliest method of receiving television programming, which merely requires an antenna and an equipped internal or external tuner capable of picking up channels that transmit on the two principal broadcast bands, very high frequency (VHF) and ultra high frequency (UHF), to receive the ...

  8. List of United States over-the-air television networks

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    Through the use of multicasting, there have also been a number of new Spanish-language and non-commercial public TV networks that have launched. Free-to-air networks in the U.S. can be divided into five categories: Commercial networks – which air English-language programming to a general audience (for example, ABC, CBS, NBC, and Fox);

  9. Cable television in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The basic programming package offered by cable television systems is usually known as "basic cable" and provides access to a large number of cable television channels, as well as broadcast television networks (e.g., ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, The CW, MyNetworkTV, Telemundo, Univision, UniMás, PBS), public, educational, and government access channels ...