Are you passionate about television production and ensuring seamless broadcasting experiences? Do you have a keen eye for detail and technical proficiency in managing feeds? As a Feeds Technician, you'll play a crucial role in managing the transmission of live and recorded content, ensuring high-quality audio and video feeds. You'll work closely with producers, directors, and engineers to troubleshoot technical issues and maintain optimal signal quality.
Core Duties and Responsibilities:
- Facilitate technical & logistical traffic to support live news shows and recorded productions
- Support editorial & production staff on use of studio and control room technology
- Support engineering team in the installation, configuration, and maintenance of the technical equipment
- Maintain a remote studios database
- Book remote studios, satellite trucks, and personal studios for remote productions, recordings, and live to air shots
- Assign, establish, and coordinate all IFB and PL lines
- Ensuring Newsmax technical quality standards are being met
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Position Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree
- Technical acumen and aptitude with strong communications and diplomacy skills
- Expert understanding of studio and remote production equipment
- Experience in broadcast transmission-based operations support across IP, fiber and satellite services preferred
- Knowledge and ability to setup multiple live shots over cloud-based technology like Skype and Zoom and their advanced audio and video settings as well as online platform management tools, smartphone applications including Newtek’s TalkShow VS4000
- Experience with bonded cellular service providers such as LiveU, Dejero and TVU
- Understanding of audio and video routing, audio manipulation and color correction and broadcast quality assurance standards that are practiced routinely
- Solutions-based, team player who can effectively communicate with internal and external stakeholders in multiple areas
- Ability to handle multiple tasks efficiently and work on deadline in a high pressure, 24/7 news environment
- Professional appearance
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $50,000.00 - $70,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Dental insurance
- Employee assistance program
- Flexible spending account
- Health insurance
- Health savings account
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Referral program
- Vision insurance
Schedule:
Ability to Relocate:
- New York, NY 10022: Relocate before starting work (Required)
Work Location: In person