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Sportscaster GMedia

Title: Sportscaster

Company: GMedia

Location: Harold, KY

Department: GMedia

Duties & Responsibilities

  • Commentary describing the actions as it unfolds, play by play, during a game
  • Providing expert analysis, background information, and strategic insights, often from a former player or coach’s perspective
  • Conducting interviews with athletes, coaches, and other relevant figures before, during, or after games.
  • Studying teams, players, and game strategies to provide informed commentary. 
  • Writing scripts, articles, and developing content for various media platforms
  • Presenting sports news segments, talk shows, or other sports-related programming
  • May be involved in the technical aspects of broadcasting, such as operating audio and video equipment
  • Interacting with fans, answering questions, and providing insightful commentary to enhance the viewing or listening experience
  • Other duties that are assign

Skills

  • Analytical – Synthesizes complex or diverse information, Designs workflows and procedures.
  • Problem Solving – Identifies and resolves problems in a timely manner; Gathers and analyzes information skillfully; Develops alternative solutions.
  • Oral Communication – Listens and gets clarification; Responds well to questions.
  • Written Communication – Writes clearly and informatively; Edits work for spelling and grammar; Varies writing style to meet needs; Presents numerical data effectively; Able to read and interpret written information.
  • Judgment – Displays willingness to make decisions; Exhibits sound and accurate judgment; Includes appropriate people in decision-making process; Makes timely decisions.
  • Planning/Organizing – Uses time efficiently; Develops realistic action plans.
  • Professionalism – Reacts well under pressure; Accepts responsibility for own actions.
  • Quality – Demonstrates accuracy and thoroughness; Applies feedback to improve performance; Monitors own work to ensure quality.
  • Quantity – Completes work in timely manner.
  • Adaptability – Changes approach or method to best fit the situation.
  • Innovation – Meets challenges with resourcefulness; Generates suggestions for improving work.
  • Communications and Media – Knowledge of media production, communication, and dissemination techniques and methods. This includes alternative ways to inform and entertain via written, oral, and visual media.
  • Computers and Electronics – Knowledge of electronic equipment, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming.

Physical Demands

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.  While performing the duties of this job. the employee is regularly required to…

  • Use hands to finger, handle, or feel and talk or hear.
  • Sit, stand, walk
  • Reach with hands and arms and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
  • Lift and/or move up to 10 pounds
  • Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

Education and/or Experience

On-the-job experience & informal training with experienced workers.