Producer, News (M442)
WFMZ-TV, Allentown, PA USA
Level: Experienced
Duration: Full Time
WFMZ-TV covers the third largest metro area in Pennsylvania with a focus on Allentown, Reading, Bethlehem, and Easton. We're looking for a News Producer ready to become part of a great team. A career that will have an impact on our community. You will be motivated to be creative, inspired, and work in an industry that impacts the Lehigh Valley. Quality control is the fundamental mission. Accuracy and strong writing skills are essential for the success of our next candidate.
Responsibilities include:
Work with reporters on stories
Create newscast rundowns
Control room boothing for assigned newscast
Timing weather, sports, and breaks
Writing VO’s & VOSOT
Research information for newscast
Requirements:
Strong writing, spelling and grammar
Multi-Tasking
Creativity
Ability to work under deadlines
This is a in office position
Send resume to producerjob@wfmz.com. Please mention Job #M442 in all correspondence. EOE
About WFMZ-TV
Our coverage area is an unusual geographic market: the Lehigh Valley and Berks County. It's the third largest business district in Pennsylvania. This includes Lehigh, Northampton, Berks, and Carbon counties in Pennsylvania, and Warren County in New Jersey within the Allentown/Bethlehem/Easton, PA/NJ MSA. It also includes portions of Monroe, Schuylkill, Bucks, Chester, Delaware, and, Montgomery counties in Pennsylvania and Hunterdon, Mercer, Burlington, Camden, and Gloucester counties in New Jersey.
WFMZ-TV programs 93 live half-hours of original local news each week. This equals over 2,416 hours of local news, weather, traffic and sports each year. Our Berks Edition newscast is dedicated to Reading and Berks County. To serve the Hispanic community, WFMZ-TV employs a full Hispanic news department, which produces a Spanish-language newscast each weeknight at 11pm airing on 69.1. WFMZ-TV has a seasoned team of award winning news journalists that viewers in our area depend on for local and regional election coverage, school closings, and live reports when news happens.