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Full Time Job

Technical Production Manager

CNN

New York, NY 11-14-2021
 
  • Paid
  • Full Time
  • Senior (5-10 years) Experience
Job Description
The Job
CNN is the world's most essential and engaging source of video and digital news, and we're embarking on a crucial mission to invent the next generation of news and information experiences to inform, engage, and empower the world. We have a unique ability to marry content, design, product, and technology to spark connection, fulfill utility, and build community. With our consumer and facts-first strategy, we're developing new platforms and formats that put CNN's talent, expertise, and content programming directly in the hands of consumers.

The Daily
Be the eyes, ears and heart of a TV production! Technical Production Managers are the backbone of production, coordinating every detail in CNN's live control rooms.
• Working with editorial & production to book studios and live locations
• Roll satellite trucks for field production for live air
• Facilitating technical & logistical traffic to support live news shows
• Safeguard CNN air ensuring that feeds meet CNN quality standards
• Working with show directors to set-up look of live shots
• Assigning, establishing and coordinating IFB and PL lines in the live control room
• Being responsible for managing & maintaining control room intercom show files and incoming router assignments
• Supporting editorial & production staff on use of control room technology

The Essentials
Must have a strong command of news programming and be a voracious consumer of news and video content in its many forms. An ideal candidate must also have superior editorial judgment. Experience in television news production is required.
• You're a news junkie
• You have technical know-how and strong communications skills
• An ability to work in a high pressure, 24/7 news environment
• You've worked in live TV production for 5 years
• You have a strong working knowledge of AZ Edit, Evertz multi-viewers and iNews
• An undergraduate degree or relevant experience with lines, satellites and technical facilities
• This position is required to work in person at one of our locations in the United States. WarnerMedia requires anyone working in our workplaces in the US to be vaccinated against COVID-19. Exemptions to this vaccine requirement are available to those entitled to reasonable accommodations for religious or medical reasons.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-rvkv77-13-59-82-167-42 in your application.

Company Profile
CNN

We are the now and the next. The power behind the people building the future. We are born from the spirit of innovation. We are created from the idea that people around the world want more, need more, deserve more. We are the home of the global digital revolution. We are CNN.