Broadcasting and audiovisual technicians
AI can help with a few sub-tasks (emails, paperwork), but the core of the job doesn't change.
Exposure is not job loss: it shows how much of the work generative AI could do today. Whether that turns into transformation, productivity gains or cuts depends on employers, regulation — and on you.
0 = today’s generative AI cannot perform any of the job’s tasks, 100 = it could do all of them fully. The pale band is the spread across tasks.
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Broadcasting and audiovisual technicians carry low generative AI exposure (score 35/100), stable from 36/100 in 2023. Automation assists routine mixing and monitoring, while hands-on control of transmitters and field repairs stays human. Strong outlook for the group, with 17.4% employment growth projected to 2035.
What changes
- AI assists editing and mixing image and sound (task score 52/100)
- Routine monitoring of transmission and broadcast systems partly automated
- Problem diagnosis tools speed up fault-finding but need technician judgment
What stays human
- Emergency repairs to equipment remain almost untouched (score 17/100)
- Applying recording and editing expertise to solve real-world problems
- Operating transmitting and satellite systems under unpredictable conditions
What to learn
- Learn AI-assisted editing and mixing workflows for quality control
- Deepen RF, satellite, and transmission systems fundamentals
- Practice live fault diagnosis and rapid emergency repair on real equipment
Task by task
The ILO scored every task of the occupation separately, as the average of two AI models (GPT-4o and Gemini). The pale band is the range between the two models' scores, the dot the ILO's final score (for a few tasks expert review placed it outside the band).
- Controlling equipment to edit and mix image and sound recordings to ensure satisfactory quality and to create special image and sound effects52
- Applying knowledge of principles and practices of image and sound recording and editing in order to identify and solve problems40
- Controlling transmitting and broadcast systems and satellite systems for radio and television programmes39
- Applying knowledge of principles and practices of broadcasting, telecommunications terminals and transmissions systems, in order to identify and solve problems39
- Controlling radio communications systems, satellite services and multiplex systems on land, sea or in aircraft33
- Controlling equipment to record sound28
- Making emergency repairs to equipment.17
How much does it affect you?
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For each task: I don't do it · sometimes · most of my job.
- Controlling equipment to edit and mix image and sound recordings to ensure satisfactory quality and to create special image and sound effects(52)
- Applying knowledge of principles and practices of image and sound recording and editing in order to identify and solve problems(40)
- Controlling transmitting and broadcast systems and satellite systems for radio and television programmes(39)
- Applying knowledge of principles and practices of broadcasting, telecommunications terminals and transmissions systems, in order to identify and solve problems(39)
- Controlling radio communications systems, satellite services and multiplex systems on land, sea or in aircraft(33)
- Controlling equipment to record sound(28)
- Making emergency repairs to equipment.(17)
You are exactly at the occupation average. (The occupation's score: 35.)
About 14% of your working time goes to highly exposed tasks (score ≥ 50).
- • Controlling equipment to edit and mix image and sound recordings to ensure satisfactory quality and to create special image and sound effects
- • Applying knowledge of principles and practices of image and sound recording and editing in order to identify and solve problems
- • Making emergency repairs to equipment.
- • Controlling equipment to record sound
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How many people work in this occupational group?
Share of the Information and communications technicians group in total employment, by country (Eurostat, ISCO 2-digit — 4-digit breakdowns are not public by country).
Table view
| Country | Information and communications technicians |
|---|---|
| Spain | 1.9% · 422 thousand · 2025 |
| Italy | 1.6% · 386 thousand · 2025 |
| Denmark | 1.4% · 44 thousand · 2025 |
| Croatia | 1.2% · 21 thousand · 2025 |
| Sweden | 1.2% · 65 thousand · 2025 |
| Norway | 1.2% · 34 thousand · 2025 |
| Czechia | 1.2% · 61 thousand · 2025 |
| Finland | 1.1% · 28 thousand · 2025 |
| Portugal | 1.0% · 54 thousand · 2025 |
| Iceland | 1.0% · 2 thousand · 2025 |
| Austria | 0.9% · 42 thousand · 2025 |
| Slovakia | 0.9% · 23 thousand · 2025 |
| Ireland | 0.9% · 25 thousand · 2025 |
| Bulgaria | 0.9% · 26 thousand · 2025 |
| Estonia | 0.9% · 6 thousand · 2025 |
| United Kingdom | 0.8% · 282 thousand · 2025 |
| Germany | 0.8% · 341 thousand · 2025 |
| Switzerland | 0.8% · 38 thousand · 2025 |
| Slovenia | 0.8% · 8 thousand · 2025 |
| Netherlands | 0.8% · 76 thousand · 2025 |
| Latvia | 0.7% · 6 thousand · 2025 |
| France | 0.7% · 204 thousand · 2025 |
| Malta | 0.7% · 2 thousand · 2025 |
| Cyprus | 0.6% · 3 thousand · 2025 |
| Belgium | 0.6% · 29 thousand · 2025 |
| Hungary | 0.5% · 25 thousand · 2025 |
| Romania | 0.5% · 40 thousand · 2025 |
| Poland | 0.5% · 83 thousand · 2025 |
| Lithuania | 0.4% · 6 thousand · 2025 |
| Greece | 0.3% · 12 thousand · 2025 |
What do they earn?
Mean gross monthly earnings in the major occupational group (Technicians and associate professionals). Eurostat's earnings survey only publishes pay by occupation at 1 digit, so this is the job's broader group. Enterprises with 10+ employees, 2022.
By country, at purchasing power parity (PPS/month), so countries with different price levels can be compared.
- Switzerland5,280
- Luxembourg4,320
- Norway4,307
- Denmark4,301
- Ireland4,024
- Belgium3,903
- Iceland3,856
- Germany3,608
- Austria3,399
- Netherlands3,247
- EU273,226
- Italy3,127
- Sweden3,089
- Finland2,971
- France2,687
- Spain2,685
- Slovenia2,660
- Cyprus2,537
- Lithuania2,472
- Malta2,464
- Romania2,310
- Poland2,294
- Czechia2,275
- Estonia2,251
- Croatia2,127
- Latvia2,081
- Hungary2,054
- Greece2,050
- Portugal2,044
- Slovakia2,027
- Bulgaria1,738
Source: Eurostat Structure of Earnings Survey (earn_ses22_21), every four years. The United Kingdom is not covered by the survey.
Outlook to 2035
Employment in the Information and communications technicians group according to Cedefop's 2026 forecast.
thousand · Cedefop Skills Forecast 2026 · 2026–2035: projection
Replacement demand is the jobs left by people retiring or changing careers — even a shrinking occupation can have many openings.
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Sources: ILO WP140 (2025) · Eurostat lfsa_egai2d · Cedefop Skills Forecast 2026 · WEF Future of Jobs 2025 · ESCO. The exposure score measures how much of an occupation's tasks generative AI could perform — not whether the job disappears. For information only, not career advice. How do we calculate this?