ScienceNet Questions and AnswersQuestion Number: 747 How does the television work when you press a button? The job of a TV set is to turn the electronic signals created by TV cameras and microphones back into pictures and sound. The TV's aerial picks up the signals from the transmitting studios and they then travel down a cable to the aerial socket at the back of the TV. When you switch on the set, the sound and picture signals are separated from each other and from the carrier waves. (The TV signal on its own isn't powerful enough to travel very far so it is mixed with the much more powerful carrier wave and
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