Broadcasting is the distribution of audio and audiovisual content to dispersed audiences via an electronic mass communications medium, typically using radio waves in a one-to-many model. Broadcasting
A broadcasting antenna in Stuttgart
A television studio production control room in Olympia, Washington, August 2008
An "On Air" sign is illuminated, usually in red, while a broadcast or recording session is taking place.
Radio Maria studio in Switzerland
Cable television is a system for delivering broadcast programming to viewers by radio frequency signals transmitted through coaxial cable and through fibre-optic cable. Cable television is contrasted
Broadcasting
…associated with radio (audio) and television, though more recently, both radio and television transmissions have begun to be distributed by cable (cable television). The receiving parties may include the general public or a relatively small subset; the point is that anyone with the appropriate receiving technology…
A sign warning about a buried CATV cable in the area
A coaxial cable used to carry cable television to the subscribers' premises
A set-top box is an electronic device that receives the cable signal into the television set. Presented unit is a Cisco RNG200N for QAM digital cable television system used in North America.
A cable television distribution box (left) in the basement of a building in Germany (Kabel BW network, now Vodafone), with a splitter (right) which supplies the signal to separate cables which go to different rooms