My name is James and I am a twenty year old Broadcast Technologies Engineer. I am an Irishman working in my native capital city, Dublin for a broadcast company. Starting off with little to no experience a year ago, I thought I would like to share some of what I have found on my travels and experiences working in broadcasting for over a year now. I am new to the blogging craze but with the internet becoming more and more the main source for new knowledge, I thought it was a good time to start one.

“What do you actually do?” – This is a question that haunts me everywhere I go and am asked by every person who I tell that I didn’t go to University and instead took up a more hands on approach. I maintain the equipment used in our live operation control rooms, problem solve any hitches or issues discovered and maintain our live studio where we have a wide selection of guests sent to a broad set of countries and companies. That involves communicating with our staff and also foreign staff, switching feeds on links and keeping a level head in a crisis situation.

I’m not all that sure how long these blog posts are expected to be but I’m going to leave it here I think. There is no set day I will post again and I have a vague idea what I’m going to post about. I very much hope to have a post on all the different equipment and systems that we use, new and old, and try my best to explain how they work and why they are affective. Slán.

James