Sports Reporter/Anchor, News (M443)
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 Sports Reporter/Anchor 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 has impact. Accuracy and strong writing skills are essential to success for our next candidate.
Responsibilities include:
Tell good stories
Ability to be conversational during live reports
Knowledge of ENPS is a plus
Report in newsroom as well as the field
Write VO’s and VOSOT’s
Research information for sportscast
Ability to develop local sports contacts
Requirements
- Strong writing, spelling and grammar
- Good Energy
- Demo Reel/Link encouraged
- Ability to work under deadlines
- Love for sports
- Ability to find a strong story
- Clean driving record
- Work in a team atmosphere
Send resume to sportsjob@wfmz.com. Please mention Job #M443 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.