Broadcasting Complex?

Question

I am an architecture student and i am having problems on my thesis regarding on broadcasting complex.

can anyone help me give some vital info about the topic. any plans, website or any existing structure that i can get answers on how a broadcasting complex work.

i also need the facilities, the approximate number of users, and also the schedule of programs for their training facilties.

please help.. thanks....

Answer 1

I used to work in TV and Radio, as a technician (many years ago).

A TV broadcast station will have the following elements of structure:

One or more soundstage/studios.  These rooms will generally be rectangular and will have relatively large square footage -- perhaps 3000 to 5000 square feet.  The ceilings will be at least 12 feet to 15 feet high.  The floor will be concrete and continuously smooth

There will be a director's control room with enough room for a wall of tv monitors, video controls, rows of chairs for producers, directors, and technical directors.  The control room should be adjacent to the studio or studios if possible with a double-paned glass window allowing a view into the studio.

There will be a master control room, with lots of raised flooring and enough floor space to house dozens of equipment racks, videotape machines, projectors, video equipment, camera equipment (for the studio cameras), monitors, switching equipment, etc.

There will also be a sound booth, or two.  This is the smallest of all the rooms.  It should have thick walls for extra insulation and sound isolation.

There should also be general office space, a reception area, and dressing rooms.  

If this broadcast complex has a news department, then there should be an open office area, with closed offices for the news department.  They should have their own video editing suites (small rooms for equipment, desk, and chairs).

Some TV complexes also have separate rooms for post-production, complete with their own tape machines, editing suites, video equipment racks, desks, chairs, audio booths, etc.

There should also be room for videotape archival and storage.

Finally -- don't forget a few bathrooms, and janitorial closets.

Larger broadcast complexes will also have radio studios and audio production facilities.  The radio portions will have their own offices, audio studios, production studios, and perhaps their own reception areas.

Apart from the broadcast complex building(s), is the transmitter locations (usually on a tall hill, mountain, or atop a tall building.  These are stark concrete bunker types of buildings with good security and plenty of room for large equipment racks and power panels/boxes.

I am sorry I don't have any URLs with diagrams.  I have been in so many of these facilities I can describe them in detail, but all I can give you are the words.

EDIT for additional information:

The transmitters for FM radio and TV are usually contained in standard 19" equipment racks that stand about 6' tall by 2' wide, by 3 feet deep.  It usually takes several racks to house all the transmitting equipment.

Small power AM broadcast transmitters will be housed in much the same manner as FM transmitters, but I have seen one 50,000 Watt (clear channel) transmitter that was 2 stories tall, and about 100 square feet of floor space!

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