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MENTS OF A TV SET UP
There are many different staffing arrangements in Television stations. Some big city stations employ
300-400 people and may be divided into dozens different departments. Small town stations may have
20-30 employees and only a few departments.
Normally General Manager is the head of a television station, the person ultimately responsible for all
station activities. The Sales department is responsible for selling time to local and national advertisers,
scheduling advertisements, sending bills to customers.
Maintaining all the equipment is the responsibility of Engineering Department. The Production
Department puts together locally produced programming. At many stations the programming
function is also handled by the production department. Those involved in programming decide what
programmes should be telecast and at what time they should be presented.
The News Department includes the news director, anchorpersons, reporters and writers responsible for
the station's newscast. The Administrative Department supports the General Manager in running the
station.
Entertainment: works with the producers to develop new programs for the networks.
Owned and operated stations: administers those station owned by the networks.
Affiliated Relations: A very important job in the new century, it supervises all contracts with
stations affiliated with the network and generally tries to keep the affiliates happy.
News: responsible for all network news and public affairs programmes.
Standards: checks all network programmes to make sure they do not violate the law or the
networks own guidelines for appropriate content.
Engineering Department
The Engineering Department takes care of the day to day operations and maintenance of a TV network
and Rebroadcast Stations, new projects, Planning & Procurement, as well as research and Development
activities. At national level Director Engineering is the while at centers Executive Engineering Manager
may be the in charge.
Training Courses
Such courses impart professional training in various disciplines of television broadcast technology. It
may be headed by a full time Director, and is assisted by a team of television professionals who are
members of the academic faculty.
Marketing
The Marketing Department of TV network is responsible for marketing the programmes and the
commercial time on its screen. It is the major source of any TV network earnings. It is headed by
Director Marketing at large stations and by General Managers at the small stations. Advertisers can
book commercial spots in the commercial breaks provided between programmes and can also sponsor
programmes shown on a TV network.
Information Technology
The Information Technology Department is responsible to deal the IT up-gradation and solutions to
bring improvement on screen and ensure non-stop programming. It is headed by Controller at large
stations and IT in charges small stations.
Finance Department
Finance Department is headed by Director Finance large stations and by Executive Manager Finance at
small stations. It has to record all business transactions according to the prevailing tax laws and
accounting principles.
Sub-Departments
Make-up
This is a sub section of programmes department & deals with the make-over & get ups of the talents
according to nature of the programme.
Presentation Section
This section comes under programmes department & handles the Scheduling & broadcast of
programmes/ advertisements.