What are the responsibilities and job description for the 2025 WLWT Summer Intern - Sales position at Hearst Television?
WLWT TV, the Hearst Television owned NBC affiliate in Cincinnati is recruiting college students for our 10-week, paid summer internship program, which provides a hands-on professional learning experience, with an emphasis on Broadcast Television Sales and Advertising. The WLWT Internship Program is administered through in-person training and shadowing of Sales Managers, Account Executives and Support Specialists. Application deadline is February 28, 2025 and students must have junior, senior or graduate studies level status to apply. This role reports to the General Sales Manager.
Interns are introduced to every aspect of the sales operation, including but not limited to :
Sales :
- Shadow client specialists.
- Shadow digital account manager.
- Shadow national sales department.
- Monitor and assist in client prospecting.
- Monitor and assist in research of target accounts / categories for upcoming client presentations.
- Monitor and assist in creation of sales materials.
- Assist in fielding phone calls.
- Shadow and assist sales professionals in the field.
Commercial Production :
Research :
Successful Completion of Internship :
Standard Practice for All Interns :
Diversity Statement
At Hearst Television we tell stories every day. Stories about people of all cultures, backgrounds, perspectives, and identities. That's why, behind the scenes, we believe in being an organization as diverse and varied as the audience we reach, ensuring that the content we create is more compassionate, and more representative of the communities we serve.
