The Speakers: Transmission (How broadcasting works): Recent Episodes
Fun Kids
The Speakers have a lot to say – but how can they get other people to listen? Discover how you get sound and pictures from their original source to things like your radio, TV and tablet! Towers, satellites, cables… there’s loads of different ways of getting your message across!
Why can’t we can’t see the waves coming out of transmitters?
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Why can’t we hear the waves coming out of transmitters but our radios can?
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In this episode the Speakers learn how we keep track of all the radio waves around us – who’s in charge of sorting them, and what other jobs people do
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Not everyone receives TV and radio signals from radio waves travelling through the air. In this episode the speakers check out how it can be done with satellite and fibre optic cables.
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The speakers have been checking out the masts and towers which help transmit radio and TV programmes – why they’re so tall and how they’re built. They’re going to need a head for heights!
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The speakers find out about the different ways that radio signals are transmitted.
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The speakers had a lot of fun recording their songs and stories on Fun Kids. But what happens to those sounds when they leave the studio? The gang have ended up on top of a hill!
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In this episode the speakers find out how sounds and pictures are packaged up in studios, so that they can be turned into radio and TV transmissions.
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Getting our messages across is a lot easier now we have more modern methods of transmission – as the Speakers find out when they try some older ways of doing things.
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The Speakers have a lot to say – but how can they get their message across? In this episode, Woof, Subbo, Honkers and Tweet think about different ways of communicating.
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