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May 6, 2008 10:44 am US/Eastern

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WCBS-TV Jobs and Internships

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WCBS is an Equal Opportunity Employer. It is our policy to afford equal opportunity to all, to discriminate against none, to take affirmative action to promote equal employment and advancement opportunity regardless of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, sexual orientation, disability, veteran's status, marital status, height, or weight. We recognize that our continued growth and business success depends on the development and utilization of the full range of the nation's human resources.

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Digital Account Executive
WCBS-TV, wcbstv.com
New York

The Digital Media Department at WCBS-TV is seeking a qualified digital account executive for wcbstv.com, the fastest-growing local TV news Web site in America's largest media market, and for the station's other digital delivery platforms.

Reporting to the Director of Digital Media, Digital Account Executives are responsible for coordinating and executing a comprehensive online advertising sales strategy to support individual digital sales goals. This individual's primary responsibility is to work with the local advertising clients and agencies as well as third party ad sales representatives to generate ad revenue for the WCBS-TV digital properties. This person will also need to work in close coordination with television ad sales, strategic sales, marketing, editorial and Web site operations, plus have a working understanding of new ad product development, sales development, promotions and event marketing.

Responsibilities:
- Responsible for the digital advertising sales on WCBS-TV's digital properties. This individual will implement the strategy to execution including development plans, ad specs and rate card pricing.
- Must understand how to identify a client's needs and develop a solution that meets their marketing objectives.
- Develop online platforms for key clients on wcbstv.com.
- Responsible for creating and supporting integrated online/TV sales strategies.
- Initiate significant digital ad sales leads via advertisers and ad agencies
- Generate new and unique local ad sales opportunities for wcbstv.com
- Develop strong working relationship with WCBS-TV management and corporate ad sales teams in order to create integrated programs and maximize overall revenue impact
- Develop strong working relationship with in-house research team and CBS Television Stations research team in order to keep sales research materials up to date and consistent with the sales priorities and needs
- Provide ongoing input to the Director of Digital Media, television ad sales, strategic sales, marketing, WCBS-TV management and CBS Television Stations Digital Media management related to online ad sales trends, new revenue-generating products and online advertising industry trends

Qualifications:
- Highly collaborative team player
- Strong communication, negotiation, interpersonal and presentation skills.
- Well connected in the local online ad buying community—with clients and interactive agencies
- Current competitive knowledge of where clients are spending, how much and when they're spending
- Hands-on sales professional with a proven and consistent track record of extraordinary success
- Excellent verbal and written communication/presentation skills; ability to translate broad concepts and new ideas into clear, concise and logical communication
- Ability to work collaboratively with marketing team, ad sales operations, editorial and other cross functional groups
- Understands strategic selling and can create client-centric sales opportunities
- Flexible and willing to work in fast paced environment
- Willing to travel (approximately 10%-20%)
- Highly adept at Power Point, Excel and other relevant sales reporting and communication tools

Experience:
- Minimum of 2 years in advertising sales, including at least 1 years digital advertising in New York.
- Experience writing, developing and presenting engaging customized sales presentations
- Experience packaging, pricing, negotiating and seeing the program through successful execution
- Experience working with multiple sales teams and developing unique advertising sales programs
- Experience understanding and analyzing online and television research, and can integrate syndicated research and in-house proprietary research into sales proposals

Send cover letter, resume, references and salary requirements electronically to:

Dan Shelley
Director, Digital Media
WCBS-TV, wcbstv.com
dshelley@cbs.com

Digital Media Producer, Advertising + Special Projects

POSITION OBJECTIVE
The Digital Media Department at WCBS-TV is looking for a qualified full-time Web designer to work on wcbstv.com, the fastest-growing local TV news Web site in America's largest market, and the station's other digital delivery platforms. The Digital Media Producer, Advertising + Special Projects leads all creative-based advertising efforts and special projects for wcbstv.com, focused primarily on Flash development and Web graphic design. The Digital Media Producer, Advertising + Special Projects must have a keen understanding for the basics of Web journalism while maintaining a contemporary, extensive and diverse portfolio.

Working with the Director, Digital Media, and the station's digital and broadcast account executives, the Digital Media Producer, Advertising + Special Projects will be called on to create engaging, interactive experiences. These experiences must fulfill advertisers' needs, as well as help build audience, increase time spent on site and raise the bar in terms of online interactivity. The Digital Media Producer, Advertising + Special Projects also may be called on to support wcbstv.com editorial operations, as necessary.

Applicants for this position MUST include links to their online portfolio of Flash work that illustrates their accomplishments as they relate to the requirements and responsibilities of this position. Our industry is fast-paced and this position especially requires a mindset conducive to that environment; those looking for long lead times for design and development need not apply.

POSITION REQUIREMENTS
-- Expert-level Flash design experience with basic understanding of hand-coding the ActionScript language
-- Professional-level PhotoShop experience
-- Ability to hand-code HTML, DHTML, CSS
-- Solid understanding of usability, user interface design and browser compatibility challenges
-- Ability to work in a fast-paced media publishing environment
-- Ability to work independently or collaboratively within strict deadlines
-- Demonstrated news judgment preferred

COMPETENCIES
-- Excellent oral and written communication skills
-- Analytical and problem-solving business skills, using knowledge, experience and understanding of Internet functionality and usability.
-- Ability to actively participate in problem resolution, reacting positively and quickly to changing dynamics
-- Self-motivated creative mind who values collaboration and working with a diverse team.

EDUCATION
-- Bachelor's degree in Design, Communications, Journalism or other related field.

PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE
-- Minimum 3 years professional experience in the Web design field, preferably with experience working in a traditional media environment.

SKILLS
-- Strong understanding of user-interface issues
-- Command of information-design concepts
-- Mastery of Web client-side technologies
-- Solid print, typography and layout skills
-- Extensive experience with all relevant design software (PhotoShop, Illustrator, etc.).

While this position is a traditional M-F position, evening and weekend work may be required, as well as on-call duty for breaking news coverage. This position is based in the CBS Broadcast Center, in New York City.

Interested parties should pay particular attention to the following items, which are required to apply for this position. Applications that do not contain all of these items will not receive priority processing:

-- Cover letter
-- Resume
-- References
-- Salary requirements
-- Link to online portfolio as described above

Send information electronically to:

Dan Shelley
Director, Digital Media
WCBS-TV, wcbstv.com
dshelley@cbs.com

No phone calls please.

News Operations/Media Manager

WCBS-TV seeks a dynamic, energetic, self-motivated and experienced News Operations/Media Manager to oversee our news editing operation. Qualified candidates will have three to five years of managerial or supervisory editing experience and be well versed in non-linear edit workflow to facilitate our transition from a Panasonic / AVID to BitCentral's Precis platform with Edius and Final Cut Pro editing software.

Duties include managing day-today news editing functions, including scheduling within the confines of the department budget, prioritizing workload, coordinating the recording of feeds from bureaus and ENG/SNG remotes; playback and microwave/satellite receive operations and coordinate and oversee staff training and procedure development. Coordinate and implement standard operating procedures. Create daily feedback reports for news, engineering & operations and maintenance when necessary.

Knowledge of Standard and High Definition ENG & DSNG as well as the technical infrastructure and its related equipment is a must as well as a complete understanding of news production processes.

The ideal candidate should posses a dynamic skill set in facilitating, organizing, communicating and follow-up skills and be able to take direction from executive producers, assignment managers, and writers and show producers and facilitate their requirements to assure all material is completed on-time for air. The News Operations/Media Manager must follow direction well, perform and make decisions under extreme pressure and posses the ability to stay calm in a fast paced, stressful environment.

Previous experience in a union environment is a plus but not required.

Email resume and cover letter as an MSWord.doc to wcbstv@gmail.com or mail to:

Kris Binder
Director, Broadcast Operations & Engineering
WCBS-TV
524 W. 57th Street #2304
New York, NY 10019

Graphic Artists/Designers

Award-winning, fast paced in-house design agency for CBS broadcasting is looking for a high-energy motion graphic artists to fill staff and freelance positions, immediately. The ideal candidates will have expert skills in Photoshop, Illustrator and After Effects, with Cinema 4D skills a plus. The ability to think out of the box and bring your creativity is essential, strong communication skills and team spirit are a must. This position will be intensely involved in High Definition design & production of Campaigns, On-Air show/original programming packages, HD promo shoots and news graphics. We offer a competitive NY salary and a creative environment for your ideas to grow in.

Contact:
Jon Paul LoMonaco
DESIGN DIRECTOR
WCBS-TV
524 West 57th Street
New York, NY 10019

No phone calls please.

Account Manager, Business Development
WCBS Marketing Solutions Department

The Marketing Solutions group is an internal strategic sales and marketing group within WCBS-TV, whose goal is to generate media dollars from Fortune 500 advertisers. The revenue is incremental to WCBS-TV.

Job Overview
The right candidate is someone who thrives on being an original thinker and is not afraid to challenge the system with new ideas. You must understand how to close big deals with multiple components and work with a range of personalities both on a corporate level and on a station level. Knowledge of digital content and its role in shaping and complementing broadcast ideas is a necessity. Ability to multi-task projects and clients at various stages of a deal is crucial. A developed rolodex and solid relationships with agency planners and clients is required.

Reporting Structure

Reports directly to Director of Marketing and Strategic Sales

Scope of the Position
The Account Manager, Business Development has multiple roles:

1) Management of client-direct interaction and business development in New York Region. Involves development of presentations and creative concepts to present to clients as well as securing meetings and building/ maintaining relationships with the clients who currently are not buying television. Account Manager, Business Development will be seen as an ambassador for the CBS Brand and will be charged with elevating the status of meetings with new clients while engaging clients at the earliest stages of their planning process, annually and on-going, to ensure that WCBS and WCBSTV.com receives every single consideration. Ultimate Goal is to bring new advertisers to the medium.

2) Solidifying positioning of WCBS-TV Business Development division with direct clients and non-traditional agencies. While client-direct is the goal, it is imperative for the Account Manager, Business Development to work closely with all non-traditional agencies to ensure their support of our strategy to grow the business development category, their business and ultimately the business of WCBS Television. The Business Development clients and agencies must feel like partners in our initiatives and vice-versa.

3) Develop strong internal relationships with management and key account executives. Requires understanding the structure of how the television station, the clients and the agencies are managed and working closely with the WCBS Managers to communicate business development opportunities, strategies and to ultimately implement programs. Involves development of strategies, joint meetings and team work. Sales team and management interaction is integral to the success.

4) Continuous work on developmental business opportunities including selling all assets within the WCBS arsenal. This Account Manager should be well versed and comfortable in selling all of the WCBS assets which include on-air, online, local events and specials and network events and specials.

Key Responsibilities
The key responsibilities of this role are:

1) Ability to prospect, close and grow new accounts and developmental business clients for WCBS and WCBSTV.com. Sell special projects and develop fully integrated client proposals.

2) Close teamwork with the other business development account managers, Digital Sales Director, transactional sales team and the entire WCBS Marketing Department. This includes working closely on pricing, overall deal negotiating, implementation of programs and oversight of all steps to a successful campaign.

3) Working closely with Senior Management to determine key prospects, goals and strategies.

Requirements:
• At least 6 to 8 years of proven ability to sell marketing ideas within an organization or business
• Competitive, aggressive and highly motivated sales professional with Business Development sales experience
• Media sales (TV, print, cable, radio) experience a plus, but not mandatory
• Agency and/or Client media planning/strategy experience desired
• Dynamic presence, stellar written and presentation skills a must
• Must be tech savvy (including a familiarity with sales tools, excellent knowledge of Microsoft Office)

Please send resumes to: tgoddard@cbs.com.

CREATIVE SERVICES PRODUCTION COORDINATOR

WCBS-TV seeks an energetic individual with strong organizational skills.
Qualified candidate will help producers and editors with daily production needs, handle all administrative assistant duties, schedule promos, and maintain promotional inventory.

Candidates should send resumes to Lee Grossman at lgrossman@cbs.com.

WRITER/PRODUCER/EDITOR

WCBS-TV seeks a highly motivated individual with strong writing and editing skills. Must demonstrate ability to cut through the clutter, and produce break through promos. Must be hands-on. Must be a multi-tasker. Qualified candidate will write, produce, and edit news topicals, plus sweeps and station image promotion. Experience with iNEWS and Final Cut Pro desired. Reel should be available upon request.

Candidates should send resumes and writing samples to Lee Grossman at lgrossman@cbs.com.

WCBS-TV NEW YORK - Account Executive

Must have...

* At least five years of media sales experience.

*Strong PC skills.

* Proven track record in developing business by selling promotions and sponsorships including sports.

* Excellent communication & organizational skills.

* Understanding of how to present and increase web sales.

* Professional telephone skills along with strong & effective presentation skills, and lead generating qualities.

* Valid driver's license required.

Please send resume:

WCBS-TV
Att:Lee Kaplan
524 West 57th Street
New York, NY 10019
Bldg 513 / 3rd Floor / or
Email to lkaplan@cbs.com

On-Air Talent

Full Time - AFTRA Positions (News, Sports Reporters & News Anchors)
Objective: To gather information, prepare and deliver news stories about a variety of subject areas for WCBS-TV's New York Metro area viewers.

Responsibilities:
•Must be a professional who can communicate compelling, credible and accurate stories on our-air.
•Covers news events, sporting events, always cultivates sources, writes stories and prepares for daily newscasts.
•Researches information for accuracy
•Generates enterprising and relevant story ideas and follows through the production and reporting of the same.
•Reports live from various locations even under difficult work/weather conditions.
•Gathers sound for stories as needed.
•Makes public appearances and represents WCBS-TV at charitable events, special cause related campaigns and community projects as needed.
•May occasionally be called to do fill-in anchoring as necessary.
•Performs other essential functions for reporter role as assigned.

Minimum Education and Experience Requirements:
•Five years related experience preferred.
•Journalism or related degree a plus.

For consideration, please send resume, cover letter indicating position of interest, and TAPE to:
ecjones@cbs.com

WCBS-TV
524 West 57th
New York, NY 10019

CBS 2 Internships

CBS 2 offers college students the opportunity to intern in one of our many departments including news, sports, meteorology, digital media, creative services, finance, sales, and communications. Internships can be in either the fall, spring, winter or summer season.

Internship application deadline for this fall: JULY 15, 2008.

To be considered please send the following documents:

1) The Intern Application form found below
2) Resume
3) Cover letter
4) Transcript
5) A letter from your school confirming that you will receive credit for this internship
6) Two letters of recommendation from your professors and/or employers

Please mail all of these documents to:

Ms. Sharon Persaud
WCBS-TV Internship Program
524 West 57 Street
New York, NY 10019

You must be a matriculating college student with an overall GPA of at least 2.7 and a minimum GPA of 3.0 in your major to participate in the internship program.