Master Control Operator
Required skills
- WXII/WCWG
- Hearst Television
- Master Control Operator
- broadcast
- on-air program streams
- monitor multiple air channels
- preparing content
- maintaining regulatory compliance
- assuring quality control
- documenting transmission events
Nice to have
- Adobe Premiere
Role summary
WXII/WCWG, a Hearst Television station in Winston-Salem, NC, seeks a Master Control Operator to manage broadcast equipment and on-air content. Responsibilities include monitoring channels, preparing content, building playlists, ensuring regulatory compliance and quality control, and ingesting/timing commercials and programs. The role also involves weekly shifts as a Production Assistant, operating studio equipment for live broadcasts and post-production. Duties include operating cameras, teleprompters, audio boards, and graphics systems, as well as maintaining studio appearance and lighting. The ideal candidate has 1+ years of computer application experience and prior exposure to television station operations and newscast production.
WXII/WCWG, owned by Hearst Television in Winston-Salem, NC, is looking for a Master Control Operator who will oversee the equipment that provides the content of our broadcast on-air program streams. You will monitor multiple air channels, preparing content, building playlists, maintaining regulatory compliance, assuring quality control of on-air product, and documenting transmission events. You will ingest commercials and programs, timing them and making sure they all play on air properly. Weekly, you will also work at least one shift as a Production Assistant in the Newsroom where you will be responsible for operating cameras, teleprompter, audio-board, graphics and video equipment related to live broadcasts and post-production. You will work with our production team to guarantee a successful broadcast is produced.
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Values in Action
At Hearst Television we tell stories every day. Stories about people of all backgrounds, perspectives, and identities. That’s why, behind the scenes, we believe in being an organization that fosters collaboration and open communication, ensuring that the content we create is authentic, accurate, and connected to the communities we serve.
Benefits
Hearst's benefit programs are modern, flexible and designed to focus on you. As a Hearst employee, you and your spouse or partner or dependents would have access to the following benefits.
