WPBF Sales Intern
Hearst Television, Palm Beach Gardens, FL, United States
The story is yours!
Duration: Freelance
WPBF is offering a Paid Internship in the Sales Department
Summer 2024 Session:
Application Window: March 15, 2024 – April 30, 2024
Session: June 3, 2024 – August 9, 2024
In order to apply for an internship at WPBF, please provide a cover letter with your application. The cover letter should include:
- Available start and end dates
- Days and hours available to intern
Interns will spend 10-12 weeks shadowing and gaining on-the-job experience. You will be working in a fast-paced, detail-oriented environment.
Sales Marketing and Research
The Sales Marketing and Research Intern will develop a working knowledge of the business side of advertising. The intern will also learn how the sales department can help come up with creative concepts for advertisers and sponsors and understanding of audience television viewing information and its applications.
Interns will learn to:
- Develop sales promotional pieces, client mailings, contest fulfillment and on-air production assistance.
- Gather research and ratings data for the development of sales marketing literature.
- Attend sales meetings and sales calls when appropriate.
- Assist in sales promotion video production.
- Generate client specific reports.
- Assist with the dissemination and interpretation of audience viewing data from the television research company, Nielsen.
- Conduct WPBF’s exclusive, annual consumer market survey of West Palm Beach-Ft. Pierce which examines purchase behavior, demographics, and media usage of West Palm Beach-Ft. Pierce viewers.
- Track local and network specials on WPBF and competitive stations.
- Generate viewership data for sales and news.
- Assist with projects that deal with audience viewership trends.
About Hearst Television
Every career with Hearst Television is like a story. How it develops, where it takes you, the milestones you reach along the way – you’ve got a lot to look forward to as your unique career story unfolds.
Hearst Television, a subsidiary of Hearst, owns and operates local television and radio stations serving 26 media markets across 39 states reaching over 21 million U.S. television households. Through its partnership with nearly all of the major networks, Hearst Television distributes national content over nearly 70 video channels including programming from ABC, NBC, CBS, CW, MY Net, MeTV, This TV, Estrella and more.
Hearst Television is recognized as one of the industry's premier companies. It has been honored with numerous awards for distinguished journalism and industry innovation, including the Walter Cronkite Award for political journalism, the national Edward R. Murrow Award, the DuPont-Columbia Award and the George Foster Peabody Award.