Job Description:

Come join a dynamic new national media powerhouse focused on the over-the-air TV consumer. The Scripps Networks (a growing portfolio of entertainment and news networks) provides absorbing entertainment and objective, intelligent news as we use our own distribution platforms to serve this unduplicated national audience. We meet the audience where it is with the programs it wants.

The Tech Supervisor, Studio is responsible for supporting the control room, using hands-on knowledge and skills to anticipate needs and troubleshoot issues.

What You Will Do:

• Act as the primary technical support for operations for control room and studio for specified times




• Work with network engineering and operations to ensure needs are met in control room and studio




• Provide support in managing incoming signals from the field.

What You Will Bring:

Education & Experience/Certifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience




• 7+ years professional experience in live television

Skills & Abilities

• Must work well under the pressure of a live broadcast.




• Must be able to make quick decisions and give accurate instructions.




• Ability to solve problems under pressure and apply hands-on knowledge to do so.




• Possess excellent organizational and communication skills.




• Must understand the entire scope of needs in the studio and control room.




• Good knowledge of IT applications in relation to television broadcast equipment.

Work Environment

• Willing to work varied shifts, including a primary shift from midday – 9pm.

ABOUT SCRIPPS:

The E.W. Scripps Company (NASDAQ: SSP) is a diversified media company focused on creating a better-informed world. As the nation’s fourth-largest local TV broadcaster, Scripps serves communities with quality, objective local journalism and operates a portfolio of 61 stations in 41 markets. The Scripps Networks reach nearly every American through the national news outlets Court TV and Newsy and popular entertainment brands ION, Bounce, Grit, Laff and Court TV Mystery. Scripps is the nation’s largest holder of broadcast spectrum. Scripps runs an award-winning investigative reporting newsroom in Washington, D.C., and is the longtime steward of the Scripps National Spelling Bee. Founded in 1878, Scripps has held for decades to the motto, “Give light and the people will find their own way.”

As an equal employment opportunity employer, The E.W. Scripps Company and its affiliates do not discriminate in its employment decisions on the basis of race, sex, sexual orientation, transgender status, gender, color, religion, age, genetic information, medical condition, disability, marital status, citizenship or national origin, and military membership or veteran status, or on any other basis which would be in violation of any applicable federal, state or local law. Furthermore, the company will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with known disabilities unless doing so would result in an undue hardship for the company.