As of June 2026, Broadcast Technicians has an AI-exposure score of 66/100 (High exposure) on the AI-Safe Careers index, blending O*NET tasks, the Anthropic Economic Index, the Penn/OpenAI study, and BLS data. This is an estimate of task exposure, not a prediction of job loss.
Broadcast Technicians
More exposed than 83% of the roles we track. Median pay ~US$59,570. About 1,800 projected openings a year (BLS 2024–34 — growth plus replacement).
Pay & demand figures are US medians (BLS, in USD) — your local figures will differ. Your exposure score applies broadly.
How you compare to similar Arts, Design & Media roles
Your tasks, by AI exposure
- Schedule programming or read television programming logs to determine which programs are to be recorded or aired.
- Monitor and log transmitter readings.
- Record sound onto tape or film for radio or television, checking its quality and making adjustments where necessary.
- Preview scheduled programs to ensure that signals are functioning and programs are ready for transmission.
- Play and record broadcast programs, using automation systems.
- Maintain programming logs as required by station management and the Federal Communications Commission.
- Regulate the fidelity, brightness, and contrast of video transmissions, using video console control panels.
- Develop employee work schedules.
- Control audio equipment to regulate volume and sound quality during radio and television broadcasts.
- Observe monitors and converse with station personnel to determine audio and video levels and to ascertain that programs are airing.
- Report equipment problems, ensure that repairs are made, and make emergency repairs to equipment when necessary and possible.
- Monitor strength, clarity, and reliability of incoming and outgoing signals, and adjust equipment as necessary to maintain quality broadcasts.
- Install broadcast equipment, troubleshoot equipment problems, and perform maintenance or minor repairs, using hand tools.
- Substitute programs in cases where signals fail.
- Select sources from which programming will be received or through which programming will be transmitted.
- Set up, operate, and maintain broadcast station computers and networks.
- Align antennae with receiving dishes to obtain the clearest signal for transmission of broadcasts from field locations.
- Edit broadcast material electronically, using computers.
- Instruct trainees in use of television production equipment, filming of events, and copying and editing graphics or sound onto videotape.
- Design and modify equipment to employer specifications.
No durable tasks identified for this role — its real, individually-assessed tasks consistently read as automatable (90%).
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