Technical Producer – 12 Month FTC

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Technical Producer - 12 Month FTC

Times Radio has shaken up the broadcasting firmament since launching in June 2020, and our recent nomination as UK Station of the Year in the Arias demonstrates the impact we have made.  As a live news radio station, we have built up a strong reputation for providing well-informed, thoughtful and intelligent news and discussion, covering the key stories of the day. We have combined the famous journalistic expertise of The Times and The Sunday Times with the radio experience of News Broadcasting to create a station that already has over 550,000 weekly listeners.  We have a world-class line-up of presenters talking to excellent guests, who value conversation over confrontation.

Your Role: 

You will be at the heart of our broadcast operations, ensuring that our programmes are produced to the highest technical standards. You will work closely with presenters, producers, and the wider editorial team to deliver seamless and compelling audio content. Your expertise in audio production and broadcast technology will be crucial in maintaining the quality and consistency of our output.

Day to day you will:

• Be the final point of quality control for Times Radio, producing balanced, great sounding radio
• Putting visualised guests and presenters to air in our state of the art radio studios
• Working closely with Editors and Producers in an exciting, fast paced environment
• Performing line tests with contributors
• Scheduling and controlling our studio playout system, RCS Zetta
• Working with our news gathering systems like NewsBoss
• Mixing and influencing the sound of our station through our Telos AxiaFusion audio consoles
• Controlling our studio visualisation system, MultiCAM
• Working with our studio phone and outside source suit, BionicStudio/PhoneBOX

What we’re looking for from you: 

• Knowledge of and experience working with audio in a live environment
• Experience with studio equipment, microphones and headphones
• Experience with recording audio onto solid state recorders
• Experience with getting live visualised guests on air using integrated programmes like Zoom, FaceTime and Skype
• Ability to work under pressure
• Good communicator
• Willingness to work flexibly across our 24 hour a day, 7 days a week, live radio schedule. This role may include overnight working.

News UK is one of the leading media businesses in the UK and Ireland. Our newsbrands include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun, The Sun on Sunday and The TLS. Our national broadcast brands News Broadcasting include talkSPORT, Times Radio and Virgin Radio UK, and we have market-leading local stations across Ireland. Our world-famous brands provide news, analysis, opinion and entertainment to almost 40 million people each month. Spanning print and pixel, audio and video, events and experiences, our multi-format brands are home to a plurality of opinion, representing the diverse communities we serve. Driven by passion, guided by principles and acting with purpose, we exist to promote a fair society, freedom of speech and a little bit of fun. Rethinking continually the business of storytelling, we represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter.

Life at News

Driven by passion, guided by principles and acting with purpose. We represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter. We inform our audiences so that they can make decisions based on trusted information.

To do this, we believe our employees must represent different backgrounds, perspectives and experiences. We strive to maximise and encourage every individual’s potential and ensure everyone feels valued. We support this through our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Strategy, which focuses on three main priorities - attracting talent from a wider, more representative pool, developing equity programmes to drive better representation in our leadership, and ensuring diversity and inclusivity in our workforce as well as the journalism and content we produce. We also currently have 12 employee led networks and groups that support our strategy and connect like minded employees socially.

Benefits

Some of our benefits include:

• Maternity leave up to 18 weeks full basic salary & paternity leave up to 2 weeks
• Wide range of training available, plus full LinkedIn Learning access
• Private medical insurance including coverage for pre-existing conditions
• Discounted gym memberships, free ClassPass at Home, weekly virtual yoga classes
• ‘Bikes for Work’ and ‘Electric Car’ scheme
• Up to 60% discount on Harper Collins books
• Access to exclusive events and competitions with exciting brands such as talkSPORT, Virgin Radio UK & The Times. Weekly virtual panel chats with top journalists and celebrities
• Access to wellbeing benefits such as EAP, physio/massage and counselling
• A generous pension scheme with employer contributions of up to 5%
• 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays and up to 4 volunteering days per year

We want to ensure that everyone has the opportunity to perform to their best when applying for a role. If you would like to receive any information in a different way or for us to do anything differently to support you apply for any of our roles please contact us on careers@news.co.uk.