Nexstar Media Group is America’s largest local television and media company with more than 200 stations (including partner stations) in 116 markets addressing nearly 200 million people. Nexstar’s platform delivers exceptional local content and network programming to inform and entertain viewers, while providing premium, scalable local advertising opportunities for advertisers and brands across all screens and devices. Learn more at www.Nexstar.tv.
Nexstar has a current opening for the position of Ingest Manager for our Indianapolis Hub operation. This is an on-site position.
What you will do:
- Manage the media operations for 95 TV stations with an active asset count of 120 thousand items across multiple locations.
- Lead a team of Master Control operators ingesting 5000 commercials and 1500 shows per week.
- Participate in the interview and hiring processes.
- Ensure the overall technical and operational success of multiple stations programming and commercial content in a large broadcast hub environment.
- Work with Traffic, Programming, Sales departments, content distributors, and management to resolve any issues that might affect Master Control Operations in a large hub environment.
- Verify that all program and commercial content is available and ready to air, maintain required logs, and ensure all media meets broadcast standards.
- Any other duties as assigned to maintain the operation of a large multi-station hub.
Requirements:
- Prior experience in large scale television master control operations including air switching live programs.
- Must have experience with Florical automation systems, Telestream Vantage, television satellite reception systems, server based ingest and playback systems, Microsoft office products, and file based ingest and playback operations.
- Dependable and detail oriented.
- Communicate effectively by written and oral means.
- Must work well with others.
- Be able to follow instructions with minimal supervision.
- Knowledge of computers and an aptitude for operating electronic equipment
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What We Do
Nexstar Media Group is the largest TV station operator in the country. With the reach of 171 full power television stations in 100 markets addressing nearly 38.9% of US television households, and a diversified, growing digital media operation, Nexstar Media Group offers superior audience engagement across all media devices and local broadcast television’s unrivalled influence on consumers’ purchasing and political decisions.
In 20 years, Nexstar has grown from a single station to the nation’s largest television company. This growth is fueled by an organization-wide commitment to delivering exceptional service to our communities and outstanding results for our advertisers.
From the very beginning, Nexstar has cultivated an organization-wide commitment to providing superior, unique local content that is relevant to each of the communities it serves, while offering local businesses, advertisers and brands the ability to engage and connect with local communities.
