🚀 Executive Producer, KTRK

Executive Producer, KTRK – The Walt Disney Company

ABC13, Houston’s top-rated news channel, is looking for an experienced manager of a portion of our 13 hours of live daily news. This role will encompass all of our digital and linear endpoints and the right candidate will have experience managing teams across that spectrum. We are a high-performance culture that thrives on new and exciting challenges. We regularly study ratings, research and intuition to develop and update our strategies for each platform we serve. We pivot quickly depending on the circumstances, and we expect our team to respond rapidly to change and the needs of our audience. We produce 13 live hours of news a day with hard-hitting information and very little fluff, handling breaking weather, traffic and important investigative work.

The right candidate has a high attention to detail, understands the nuances of every element we stream or broadcast, and has a high technical skill to manage and regularly operate our newsroom production system, alongside our producer/anchors, and has recent experience in a control room, producing and managing newscasts.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for day-to-day operations, production and leadership of streaming products and live events.
• Responsible for linear newscasts, production, execution and news judgment for what goes into newscasts.
• Training for those who produce linear or streaming newscasts with limited resources.

Basic Requirements

• Must have 5 years prior experience in a Top 10 market with day-to-day operations, production and leadership of local news streaming products.
• Able to make quick, strategic decisions and collaborate with the other newsroom and station leaders.
• Having a strong, thoughtful but compassionate voice when making decisions with the team is required.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in journalism, communication or related field.

Seniority level

• Executive

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Art/Creative and Design

Industries

• Entertainment Providers

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