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| AA | Average Audience |
| AAA | American Association of Advertising Agencies |
| AAAA | Associated Actors & Artists of America |
| AAF | American Advertising Federation |
| AAL | ATM Adaptation Layer |
| AAL-CU | ATM Adaptation Layer Composite User |
| AAM | ATM Adaptive Layer |
| AAPOR | American Association for Public Opinion Research |
| AARC | Alliance of Artists and Recording Companies |
| ABBE | Adaptive Baseband Equalizer |
| ABES | Association for Broadcast Engineering Standards |
| ABET | Accrediation Baord for Engineering & Technology |
| ABU | Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union |
| AC | Alternating Current |
| AC | Adult Contemporary |
| AC | Authentication Center |
| AC | Adjacent Channel (in broadcast band) |
| ACA | Advertising Council of America |
| ACAMBA | American Community AM Broadcasters Association |
| ACATS | Advisory Committee (to FCC) on Advanced Television Service |
| ACBB | American Council for Better Broadcasting |
| ACC | Automatic Chrominance/Contrast Control |
| ACC | Alliance for Competitive Communications |
| ACE | American Cinema Editors |
| ACELP | Algebraic CELP |
| ACF | AutoCorrelation Function |
| ACICIP | Advisory Committee on Int'l Communications & Information Policy |
| ACISS | Alliance for Competitive International Satellite Services |
| ACPR | Adjacent Channel Protection Ratio |
| ACSB | Amplitude Compandored Sideband |
| ACSP | Advanced CSP |
| ACT | Action for Children's Television |
| ACTA | America's Carriers Telecommunications Association |
| ACTS | Advanced Communications Technology Satellite (NASA) |
| ACTS | All-Channel Television Society |
| ACTS | Association of Cable Television Suppliers |
| ACTV | Acvanced Compatible Television |
| ACTVA | American Community TV Association |
| ACU | Antenna Coupling Unit |
| ADA | Americans with Disabilities Act |
| ADC | Analog-to-digital Converter |
| ADDS | Application Data Delivery Service |
| ADF | Ancillary Data Flag (In Digital Data Stream) |
| ADI | Area of Dominant Influence |
| ADISD | AdHoc on International Standards Development |
| ADP | Automatic Data Processing |
| ADPCM | Adaptive Differential Pulse Code Modulation |
| ADRA | Administrative Dispute Resolution Act |
| ADRIS | ADvanced Radio Information Service |
| ADS | Alpha Delta Sigma (advertising fraternity) |
| ADSL | Asychronous Digital Subscriber Line |
| ADSLF | Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line Forum |
| AEA | Actors Equity Association |
| AEA | American Electronics Association |
| AEI | American Enterprise Institue |
| AER | Alpha Epsilon Rho - College Broadcast Fraternity |
| AES | Audio Engineering Society |
| AF | Audio Frequency |
| AFA | Audio Frequency Amplifier |
| AFC | Automatic Frequency Control |
| AFCCE | Association of Federal Communications Consulting Engineers |
| AFD | Average Fade Duration |
| AFI | American Film Institute |
| AFL | American Federation of Labor |
| AFL | After Fader Listening (in mixing console) |
| AFM | American Federation of Musicians |
| AFN | Armed Forces Network |
| AFRTS | Armed Forces Radio & Television Service |
| AFSK | Audio Frequency Shift Keying |
| AFT | Automatic Fine Tuning |
| AFTRA | American Federation of Television & Radio Artists |
| AFTRCC | Aerospace Flight Test Radio Coordinating Council |
| AGAC | American Guild of Actors & Composers |
| AGC | Automatic Gain Control |
| AGL | Above Ground Level |
| AGMA | American Guild of Musical Artists |
| AGNI | AdHoc Group on Network Issues |
| AGVA | American Guild of Variety Artists |
| AHAAT | Antenna Height Above Average Terrain |
| AHAG | AdHoc on Authentication Group |
| AHG | Ad Hoc Group |
| AHORA | American Hispanic Owned Radio Association |
| AHRA | Audio Home Recording Act |
| AIAA | Association of International Advertising Agencies |
| AIAA | American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics |
| AIBD | Asia-Pacific Institute for Broadcast Development |
| AID | Arbitron Information on Demand |
| AIG | Authentication Implementation Guide |
| AIM | Accuracy in Media |
| AIM | Amplitude Intermodulation Distortion |
| AIM | Association for Interactive Media |
| AIRS | American Inter-Tribal Radio Society |
| AITS | Association of Independent Television Stations |
| Akey | A secret, 64bit pattern stored in the MS and HLR/AC. |
| ALC | Automatic Level Control |
| ALF | American Legal Foundation |
| ALI | automatic location information |
| ALI | Automatic Location Information (of calling telephone) |
| ALJ | Administrative Law Judge |
| ALPTVA | American Low Power TV Association |
| ALTS | Association for Local Telecommunications Services |
| ALTV | Association of Local TV (Stations) |
| AM | Amplitude Modulation |
| AMC | American Meteorological Society |
| AMCEL | Asociacion Mexicana de Concesionarios de Telefonia Celular |
| AMCP | Aeronautical Mobile Communications Panel |
| AMDS | Amplitude Modulated Data Service (for AM Stations) |
| AMF | Asia Multimedia Forum |
| AMOL | Automated Measurement of Lineup |
| AMPAS | Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences |
| AMPS | Advanced Mobile Phone Service/System |
| AMSS | Aeronautical Mobile Satellite Service |
| AMST | Association of Maximum Service Telecasters |
| AMTA | American Mobile Telecommunications Association |
| AMTOR | Amateur [Radio] Teleprinting Over Radio |
| AMTS | Automated Maritime Telecommunications System |
| AMVB | Association of Music Video Broadcasters |
| ANA | Association of National Advertisers |
| ANI | Automatic Number Identification (of telephone calls) |
| ANOVA | Automated Measurement of Lineups (statistical procedure) |
| ANPA | American Newspaper Publishers Association |
| ANSI | American National Standards Institute |
| ANSI | American National Standards Institute |
| AOPA | Aircraft Owners & Pilots Association |
| AOR | Album Oriented Rock (program format) |
| AOR | All Over the Road (undefined program format) |
| AOW | Asia-Oceania Workshop |
| APA | Administrative Procedures Act |
| APB | Associated Press Broadcasters |
| APC | Adaptive Predictive Coding (in signal compression systems) |
| APCC | American Public Communications Council |
| APCO | Association of Public-safety Communications Officers |
| APCO | Association of Public Safety Communications Officials |
| APEC | Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation |
| APF | All-Pass Filter |
| APFD | Aggregate Power Flux Density |
| API | Application Programming Interface |
| APL | Average Picture Level |
| APPA | American Public Power Association |
| APR | American Public Radio |
| APTF | Anti-Piracy Task Force (of SBCA) |
| APTS | Association of Public Television Stations |
| AQH | Average Quarter Hour (used in program ratings) |
| ARB | American Research Bureau |
| ARC | Automatic Reverse Charging (in telephone service) |
| ARCH | Automatic Remote Cassette Handler |
| ARF | Advertisers Research Foundation |
| ARFA | Allied Radio Frequency Agency (Europe) |
| ARFCN | Absolute Radio Frequency Channel Number |
| ARIB | Association of Radio Industries & Business (Japan) |
| ARIB | Association of Radio Industries and Businesses |
| ARMIS | Automated Reporting Management Information System (FCC) |
| ARMS | All Radio Market Study) |
| ARO | Active Resonator Oscillator |
| ARQ | Automatic Repeat Request (in data transmission systems) |
| ARRS | Association of Radio Reading Services |
| ARSC | Association for Recorded Sound Collections |
| ART | Authorite de Regulation des Telecommunications (France) |
| ART | Authentication Request Timer |
| ASBU | Arab States Broadcasting Union |
| ASC | American Society of Cinematographers |
| ASCAP | American Society of Composers |
| ASCE | American Society of Civil Engineers |
| ASIC | Application-Specific integrated circuit |
| ASK | Amplitude Shift Keying |
| ASPEC | Asymptotic Perceptual Entropy Coding/Coder |
| ASR | Automatic Speech Recognition |
| ASTA | Advertisers Syndicated Television Association |
| ATC | Ancillary Time Code |
| ATC | Air Traffic Control |
| ATC | Adaptive Transform Coding (in compression coding systems) |
| ATCT | Air Traffic Control Tower |
| ATDE | Adaptive Time Domain Equalizer |
| ATDMA | Asynchronous Time Division Multiple Access |
| ATE | Automatic Test Equipment |
| ATEC | Advanced Television Evaluation Center (in Canada) |
| ATEL | Advanced Television Evaluation Center (in Canada) |
| ATFP | Alliance of Television & Film Producers |
| ATIS | Automatic Transmitter Identification System |
| ATIS | Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions |
| ATM | Asynchronous Transfer Mode |
| ATM | Asynchronous Transfer Mode |
| ATM JIG | ATM Japan Interest Group |
| ATMA | American Mobile Telecommunications Association |
| ATMF | ATM Forum |
| ATMS | Advanced Transportation Management Systems |
| ATR | Audio Tape Recorder |
| ATRAC | Adaptive Transform Acoustic Coding |
| ATRC | Advanced Television Research Consortium |
| ATRU | African Radio & Television Union |
| ATS | Automatic Transmission System |
| ATS | Abstract Test Suite |
| ATS | American Teleivision Society |
| ATSC | Advanced Television Systems Committee |
| ATTC | Advanced Television Technology Center (formerly Test Center) |
| ATU | Antenna Tuning Unit |
| ATV | Advanced Television |
| AVC | Automatic Voltage Control |
| AVI | automatic vehicle identification |
| AVMMS | Audio Video Multi-Media Services |
| AWG | American Wire Gauge for electrical wiring |
| AWGN | Additive White Gaussian Noise |
| AWRT | American Women in Radio & Television |