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What high school courses should you take if you're interested in this career? Get your answers from the Arts, Audio-Video Technology and Communications cluster Audio and Video Technology and Film pathway.

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Isme Bennie is director of programming and acquisitions for two cable specialty channels. She says this is not a career for which you can train. She says you cannot just go to journalism school and study to become a television programmer. "It is very much based on experience," she says.

But going to journalism school may be a good way to prepare yourself for this career, since you can study television production there.

Program manager Michele Paris says a lot of television programmers have a background in production. "So they have experience in making...television before they get into a position where they are buying and scheduling it."

Paris says it is also possible to enter television programming through other creative fields, such as theater management. "But the business of television is quite specific," she says. "There is a lot to learn about the television business."

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