Digital Radio Broadcast Specialist (DRB)
- Exam
- Third-party exam
- Education
- None
- Experience
- Experience
- Background check
- None
Specialist Certifications To establish a benchmark of individual strengths, the National Certification Committee created the concept of Specialist Certifications. To apply for a specialist certification, you must currently hold certification on the Broadcast Engineer, Senior Broadcast Engineer or Professional Broadcast Engineer Certification level. Exams are three hours and consist of 50 multiple-choice questions. One essay-type question will be selected for each designation. Each essay question is worth 20 points. Digital Radio Broadcast Specialist (DRB) The SBE Program of Certification designed the Digital Radio Broadcast Specialist Certification to help evaluate an individual's ability to perform the necessary tasks to build and keep facilities operating properly. It will qualify an individual's knowledge of digital radio broadcasting including audio rocessing, studio-to-transmitter links and transmission of multi-channel digital program streams. The specialist exam will include knowledge of importers, exporters, the various methods of combining analog and digital transmitters to antenna systems, delivery of digital audio signals and data to transmitter sites, transmitter emission mask measurements, AM and FM FCC rules, monitoring of digital signals and bandwidth requirements for AM antenna systems
Requirements reported by the state
- Licence type
- Federal license
- Exam
- Third-party exam required
- Education
- No education required
- Continuing education
- No continuing education requirement
- Certification
- Certification required
- Experience
- Experience
- Background check
- No criminal record requirements
- Physical requirement
- No physical requirements
Issuing body
- Department
- The Society of Broadcast Engineers, Inc.
- Address
- 9102 North Meridian Street Suite 150 Indianapolis, IN 46260
- Phone
- (317) 846-9000
- Agency website
- http://www.SBE.org
- Licence page
- https://www.sbe.org/sections/Specialist_Cert.php
- Last updated
- May 2, 2021
Occupations (O*NET)
- 8-VSB Specialist (8-VSB, Broadcast Engineer) 27-4012.00
Source and verification
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Before you apply, confirm every detail with The Society of Broadcast Engineers, Inc. — see the issuing body section above.
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