Meteorologist

Job Description

Meteorologist

About Gray Media:
Gray Media, or Gray, is a multimedia company headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, formally known as Gray Television, Inc. The company is the nation's largest owner of top-rated local television stations and digital assets serving 113 television markets that collectively reach approximately 36 percent of US television households. The portfolio includes 77 markets with the top-rated television station and 100 markets with the first and/or second-highest-rated television station, as well as the largest Telemundo Affiliate group with 43 markets totaling nearly 1.5 million Hispanic TV Households. The company also owns Gray Digital Media, a full-service digital agency offering national and local clients digital marketing strategies with the most advanced digital products and services. Gray's additional media properties include video production companies Raycom Sports, Tupelo Media Group, and PowerNation Studios, and studio production facilities Assembly Atlanta and Third Rail Studios.
About WDBJ:
WDBJ7, WZBJ, and WDBJ7.com are a Gray-owned dominant CBS-affiliated media powerhouse in beautiful Roanoke, Virginia. Known as ''Your Hometown Station®'', WDBJ7 and WZBJ serve 26 counties across the Blue Ridge Mountain region and produce 58 hours of award-winning local news coverage, more than any of its competitors in the Roanoke/Lynchburg market.
For more than 69 years, WDBJ7 has been the number one station of choice for viewers from Roanoke to Lynchburg and across the New River Valley.
Job Summary/Description:
WDBJ Television, the #1 TV station in the 71st in the country, is looking for a meteorologist to give the most accurate forecast for our evening newscasts during the week. This position will also report live from community events during weekday evening newscasts.
Duties and responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Prepare and deliver weather over several platforms, including social media
- Responsible for developing all weather forecasts and accompanying computer graphics, delivering on-air weathercasts and live weather reports from the field
- Live ''on-the-scene'' reporting, especially during breaking news and severe weather
- Effectively communicate information regarding severe weather coverage in a clear and concise graphic presentation
- Provide weather forecasts for partnering radio station and/or newspapers
- Communicate critical weather information, especially during severe weather, to producers and other critical staff members to ensure a consistent and accurate message to viewers
- Work with the News Director to develop an overall strategy in line with the department and station
- Follow clothing and appearance guidelines
- Attend/host/speak at community service, school, and community events; meet and greet viewers
- Ensure public appearances in schools and community events are consistent with the image and goal of the station
- Participate in the story selection process through meetings; attendance at editorial meetings
- Must be able to enterprise and field report relevant stories for newscasts under tight deadlines
- Write and edit packages
- Report research-based stories
- Develop and maintain sources
- Use non-linear editing equipment on a daily basis
- Various shift work will be required. Work evenings, weekends, and holidays as needed
- Perform other incidental and related duties as required and assigned
Qualifications/Requirements:
- Be able to speak and write clearly and accurately
- Must be able to work well under pressure
- Ability to maintain professional and ethical conduct at the station and in the community
- Willingness to be a hard-working staff member and work as part of a team is required
- Excellent live reporting skills and strong on-camera presentation skills required
- Strong initiative and attention to detail are required
- Ability to work with limited supervision is a must
- Must possess excellent interview and conversational, reading, and writing skills
- Maintain a positive work atmosphere by behaving in a manner that will work well with co-workers, supervisors, and viewers.
- Knowledge of social media outlets and website postings (website and digital/mobile platforms)
- Ability to keep up with national and local news/weather is required
- Experience in storm chasing is a plus
- Use graphics to convey weather information to the audience
- Analyze weather patterns into current and forecast information
- Enterprise local hard-news stories
If you feel you're qualified and want to work with a great group of people, go to https://gray.tv/careers#currentopenings, you may type in the job title, station call letters, or click on ''apply now'', upload your resume, cover letter, and references
(Current employees who are interested in this position can apply through the Gray-TV UltiPro self-service portal)
WDBJ-TV/Gray Media is a drug-free company

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Jobcode: Reference SBJ-j6z871-216-73-216-127-42 in your application.