Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) 1991

• F - Occupations in Art, Culture, Recreation and Sport
• F1 - Technical Occupations in Art, Culture, Recreation and Sport
• F12 - Photographers, Graphic Arts Technicians and Technical Occupations in Motion Pictures, Broadcasting and the Performing Arts

F124 - Broadcast Technicians

Occupations in this unit group are primarily concerned with operating control consoles and other broadcasting equipment to route radio and television broadcasts through transmitters and network lines and to monitor radio and television broadcasts. Broadcast technicians are employed by radio and television broadcasting networks and stations.

• Example Titles

  • Broadcast engineer
  • Broadcast maintenance technician
  • Broadcast technician
  • Broadcasting technician
  • Broadcast-transmitter operator
  • Control operator, broadcasting
  • Control-room man, broadcasting
  • Master control room (M.C.R.) operator, broadcasting
  • Master-control operator, broadcasting
  • Mobile broadcast equipment operator
  • Production switcher, broadcasting
  • Regional transmitter technician, broadcasting
  • Senior master control operator (MCR), broadcasting
  • Shortwave receiving station technician
  • Studio control operator, broadcasting
  • Switcher, broadcasting
  • Telecasting technician
  • Transmission operator, broadcasting

• Exclusion

  • Persons who operate recording equipment to record programs for later broadcast (See F125 Audio and Video Recording Technicians)