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Job Description
WLWT, the Hearst Television owned NBC affiliate in Cincinnati is looking for an experienced Broadcast Systems Technician. The maintenance technician preserves the technical integrity of the station's on-air signals and its equipment from acquisition to distribution. This position supports all station efforts in-house and on remote locations.
Job Responsibilities :
- Works closely with engineering and IT management and staff to support critical on-air systems and workflows including news, production, and broadcast systems and equipment.
- Provides user support in a Windows workstation environment for custom and standard software applications.
- Administers, maintains, and troubleshoots newsroom automation and streaming systems including field gear.
- Handles hardware configuration, imaging, and deployment, performs back-ups, and supports LAN infrastructure.
- Assist users with installing and using new software and features.
- Applies software, updates services, and executes OS upgrades.
- Maintains digital transmitters, microwave central receive sites, satellite antenna systems, signal distribution and routing systems, processing systems, monitoring devices, and automation systems.
- Maintains production equipment including robotic camera system, production switcher, playout servers, graphics devices, lighting systems, weather graphics and weather systems, audio consoles, microphones, and IFBs.
- Maintains news-gathering equipment including ENG cameras, field gear, ENG, DSNG, and SNG trucks, editing systems, and support devices.
- Maintains support equipment including master and sub switchers, monitors, computer systems, microphones, intercoms, and archive videotape machines and XDCAM decks.
- Conducts troubleshooting, installation, research, documentation, and cabling tasks.
Qualification Requirements :
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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.
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.
About Us
Hearst Television (HTV) owns and / or operates 35 television and two radio stations serving 27 media markets across 39 states reaching over 22 million U.S. television households. HTV is recognized as one of the industry's premier broadcasting companies and has been honored with numerous awards for distinguished journalism, industry innovation, and community service.
