Experience

SuperSport

• Broadcast Media Production and Distribution
• 700 & Above Employee

• MCR/TRANSMISSION CONTROLLER

  • Apr 2007 - Present

  •Download and edit transmission schedules for the next day’s broadcasts. •Follow up with Marketing for outstanding promotional material (promos). •Follow up with TX Producers for any transmission content queries. •Inform engineering and supervisors about any technical issues. •Time-out to live events. •Programme all sponsorship elements as required for those live events. •Continuously monitor TX and related off-air. •Escalate any discrepancies and anomalies to relevant structures. •Sign off sponsorship as required by filling in the sponsorship sheet available on Electronic schedule (ESCHED). •Ensure a proper hand over is done to the next team as per hand over procedure. •Responsible for a multi-transmission channels. •Responsible for outgoing play list. •Monitors outgoing and return feeds and maintains the on-air presence of the channels at all times •React to automation warnings in the required manner •Raise any technical issues to the Technical Operations Manager. •Identifies and requests missing materials. •Confirm that late changes have been made and report this into the discrepancy database. •Daily reporting of all issues. •Ensures that any issues awaiting resolution are handed over to the next shift. •Assisting and operating in other operational roles within the department as and when required •Attending department meetings when required. •Responsible for ensuring all operational procedures are followed. •Provide cover for breaks if required. •High level of understanding and operational expertise using Harris DALstation automation. •Operational expertise using (DAP) Direct Access panel, VX Panel, CCS Navigator/Diagnostics, multiviewers and. Selenio media convergence. Show less



VAALTAR FM TAUNG

• TAUNG NORTHWEST

• News Anchor

  • Nov 2005 - Feb 2006

  NEWS WRITER: (interviewing people in a range of different circumstances; •building contacts to maintain a flow of news, for example, police and emergency services, local council, community groups, health trusts, press officers from a variety of organisations, the general public, etc.; •seeking out and investigating stories via contacts, press releases and other media; •attending press conferences and asking questions; •attending a variety of events, such as council meetings, magistrates' court proceedings, football matches, talent contests, etc.; •answering the phones on the news desk and reacting to breaking news stories; •working closely with the news team, photographers and editors; •recording interviews and meetings using shorthand or technical equipment; •producing concise and accurate copy according to the newspaper's house style and to strict deadlines - daily newspapers may have several each day; •writing short 'fillers' to entertain, and researching and writing longer feature articles, sometimes for subsidiary publications and supplements; •creating and uploading news content for the newspaper website; •'Live' online reporting or real-time blogging when covering important events - a growing area of work, especially on national newspapers Show less



SABC NORTHWEST

• TRANSMISSION CONTROLLER

  • Apr 1996 - May 2003