Weather Nation has a position for a Technical Director (TD)/Editor to manage the production of both a live and recorded studio environment. This position will ensure that all equipment/facilities are checked out and ready prior to recording sessions/live broadcasts. Other responsibilities include switching video sources, performing live digital effects and transitions, and insertion of pre-recorded and live material and graphics as instructed by the News Director or Producer. The TD has responsibility to provide input into the creative side of the production on both the video and audio aspects of the programming. The TD is responsible for the technical quality of the signal being recorded or broadcast and will use various measuring devices and displays to ensure quality control. Familiarity with the Tricaster 8000 is preferred but not required.We are expanding this position to also encompass Editing duties as well so familiarity with Adobe in regards to cutting and editing field packages from raw data is preferred. This is a very fast paced live studio environment so the ability to think on your feet is a must. Salary Range: $17.50-$22.00/Hour<ul><li>Full medical, dental and vision benefits</li><li>Retirement savings plan with company match</li><li>Other key company benefits include disability accident insurance, hospital indemnity, critical illness, life insurance, AD&amp;D, ID protection, pet discount program, and employee assistance program</li><li>Sick leave and PHE benefits under the Colorado HFWA</li></ul>

Technical Director (TD)

Weather Content/ Show Producer – WeatherNation TV (Denver metro area studios)WeatherNation TV seeks a full-time Producer who loves weather and can juggle multiple duties. This isn’t your normal newscast where you stack an hour show and write ten VO’s. Here, you work with meteorologists to produce seven minute live shows throughout the day. During severe weather, you produce breaking news coverage for the duration of the event. Primary duties include setting up lives with our field teams and NWS field offices, seeking video content on the internet, editing VO’s, SOT’s, PKG’s and writing for our social media and digital platforms. Experience with Adobe products is a plus, but not required.This position requires a flexible schedule which may include weekends or early morning shifts. You must have the ability to work assisted and unassisted as necessary in a deadline driven environment. This is a great job for the meteorology student who has just graduated or a broadcast producer who is looking for something completely different from producing a local affiliate newscast.Salary Range: $40,000-$60,000<ul><li>Full medical, dental and vision benefits</li><li>Retirement savings plan with company match</li><li>Other key company benefits include disability accident insurance, hospital indemnity, critical illness, life insurance, AD&amp;D, ID protection, pet discount program, and employee assistance program</li><li>Sick leave and PHE benefits under the Colorado HFWA</li></ul>

Weather Producer

WeatherNation TV, Inc is looking for experienced on–air Meteorologists to join our team in Denver, Colorado.We are looking for creative, dynamic, and natural storytellers – someone who brings professionalism, energy, confidence and personality to our team. Ideal candidates will be self starters comfortable with the responsibility for developing, preparing and delivering accurate weather forecasts and information to our 30+ million TV households across the country. Ideal candidates will have severe weather experience, and knowledge of weather patterns around the country. Weekend coverage and weekday flexibility to cover breaking weather-related events is required.Meteorology or Atmospheric Sciences degree required. Minimum of 2-5 years on-air experience. Ability to meet strict deadlines. Excellent attention to detail. Outstanding ability to process meteorological data on a national basis and provide accurate and timely information to viewers. Experience with Baron’s OMNI and/or Lynx&nbsp; and VIPIR systems preferred, but not necessary.Salary Range: $50,000-$100,000 (Shift Differential added for morning hours)<ul><li>Full medical, dental and vision benefits</li><li>Retirement savings plan with company match</li><li>Other key company benefits include disability accident insurance, hospital indemnity, critical illness, life insurance, AD&amp;D, ID protection, pet discount program, and employee assistance program</li><li>Sick leave and PHE benefits under the Colorado HFWA</li></ul>

Morning Meteorologist

WeatherNation TV is looking for a true leader. A deep understanding of meteorology, science, and the atmosphere is essential for this role, as well as understanding of television and news production. This position ensures coverage of weather events is meteorologically accurate, informative, and engaging; including content curation, visual and written storytelling etc. Candidate must possess excellent people skills and the ability to lead a seasoned team of production personnel. This is a management position requiring creative time management and the ability to make decisions that affect all aspects of the station’s production and studio operations.Responsibilities would include:<ul><li>Manage, mentor and train all producers on developing, writing and organizing weather stories for daily content and special projects</li><li>Create new standards for daily show production, segments and stories to improve and streamline producer responsibilities</li><li>Work with on-air meteorologists to develop new content and how to use available technologies to tell weather stories that will be more compelling to the audience. · Conceptualize and create new content for on-air and social media platforms.</li><li>Develop better communication strategy between on-air meteorologists, producers and technical directors.</li><li>Standardize and streamline how video, stories and other outside content is ingested into computer systems and put on the air. Oversees, provides logistical support, and final approval of all special projects for broadcasts and digital platforms (packages, live shots, etc…)</li></ul>Qualifications:<ul><li>Bachelor’s degree in meteorology, journalism, communications or related field and news leadership experience</li><li>5+ years of content experience, including generation of original content</li><li>Solid journalistic and content judgement that emphasizes accurate and unique forecasting.</li><li>Excellent people management skills · Strong communication and conflict management skills</li><li>Strong organizational skills in a fast-paced and deadline-driven environment</li><li>Work Environment Set: Office: normally performed in a typical interior/office environment</li><li>Physical Demands Set: Sedentary work: Involves sitting most of the time; walking, lifting, bending, standing</li></ul>Salary Range: $60,000 – $90,000<ul><li>Full medical, dental and vision benefits</li><li>Retirement savings plan with company match</li><li>Other key company benefits include disability accident insurance, hospital indemnity, critical illness, life insurance, AD&amp;D, ID protection, pet discount program, and employee assistance program</li><li>Sick leave and PHE benefits under the Colorado HFWA</li></ul>

Managing Executive Producer

Weather doesn’t stop and neither do we. Watch and interact with WeatherNation anytime, 24/7, to get breaking weather news, hyper-local weather, satellite/radar maps, regional and national weather news and more.WeatherNation TV seeks a full-time Photojournalist. A strong interest/background in meteorology is preferred. A passion and aptitude for visual storytelling is a must.Position requires a flexible schedule which may include weekends or early morning shifts. Must have the ability to work assisted and unassisted as necessary in a deadline driven environment.Responsibilities Include:<ul><li>Shooting creative, high-quality video on multiple devices</li><li>Setting up and execute live shots on location</li><li>Conducting on-camera interviews</li><li>Collaborating with talent and producers on story ideas and segment production</li><li>Going through rundowns and putting together assets for the show</li><li>Working with talent and producers to deliver on-air content</li><li>Organizing and distributing assets through network drives</li><li>Keeping up with good file management protocols</li><li>Meet strict deadlines</li><li>Able to efficiently edit content</li><li>Understand different types of video codecs</li><li>Ability to travel when sent on assignment</li></ul>Qualifications:<ul><li>Adobe Premiere (1 year)</li><li>Adobe After Effects</li><li>Photoshop</li><li>Excellent attention to detail</li></ul>Job Type: Full-time Pay: $18.00 – $21.00/per hour<ul><li>Full medical, dental and vision benefits</li><li>Retirement savings plan with company match</li><li>Other key company benefits include disability accident insurance, hospital indemnity, critical illness, life insurance, AD&amp;D, ID protection, pet discount program, and employee assistance program</li><li>Sick leave and PHE benefits under the Colorado HFWA</li></ul>

Photojournalist

WeatherNation is 100% dedicated to weather and uses predictive weather modeling sources from NOAA, the Storm Prediction Center, National Hurricane Center and the National Weather Service. Available on DISH channel 215, Roku, AppleTV, PS4, Smart TVs, mobile devices, tablets, local digital channels and more.WeatherNation is seeking a behind the scenes Meteorologist to join our growing Support Team. The successful candidate’s primary responsibilities will focus on providing technical and user support on all broadcast solutions. Also providing input for new software features; testing new software releases; developing broadcast-quality content for our customers; monitoring the timeliness and quality of all data delivered to our customers, and issuing forecast products. Having a passion for weather is crucial to this individual’s success.Responsibilities/Activities:<ul><li>Provide remote support services through phone and digital access</li><li>Perform product verification and testing</li><li>Desire to fulfill our mission of Critical Weather Intelligence</li><li>Manage the implementation of workstations within the organization</li><li>Maintain computer workstations, including troubleshooting, diagnosing, and resolving and issues that arise with the hardware and software</li><li>Manage and analyze in excess of 100 GB of data processed through our systems daily</li><li>Responsible for training all new weather staff on use of hardware, software, and data feeds relevant to their day to day workflow. This includes industry leading software, as well as brand specific technology and graphical interfaces</li><li>Develop relationships with industry venders to ensure access to IT products and support when required</li><li>Develop and maintain all processes for creating relevant content</li><li>Collaborated with peers to develop standardized operating procedures for day to day business, as well as breaking news situations</li><li>Responsible for taking request/feedback from viewership and creating an action plan to issues that develop</li><li>Work with affiliates to address and troubleshoot concerns, determine and execute the best resolution for both parties</li></ul>Minimum Requirements:<ul><li>BS in Meteorology or equivalent</li><li>Strong computer skills including a working knowledge of Windows B</li><li>ackground in use of weather software and data products is preferred (Barons)</li><li>Strong communication skills a must – both written and verbal</li><li>Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills</li><li>We are a 24/7/365 operation, flexibility in the schedule will be necessary</li></ul>Salary Range: $50,000 - $70,000<ul><li>Full medical, dental and vision benefits</li><li>Retirement savings plan with company match</li><li>Other key company benefits include disability accident insurance, hospital indemnity, critical illness, life insurance, AD&amp;D, ID protection, pet discount program, and employee assistance program</li><li>Sick leave and PHE benefits under the Colorado HFWA</li></ul>

IT Support Meteorologist

You will be responsible for helping to manage WeatherNation, a 24-hour national weather network. Duties include working with Producers and Meteorologists to elevate daily procedures, content and storytelling. Ideal candidates will be self-starters who have experience producing newscasts, writing, editing and producing segments. Degree required, as well as excellent attention to detail.Responsibilities would include:· Manage, mentor and train producers on developing, writing and organizing daily content and special projects.· Take lead on shifts working with your team on work flow.· Ability to produce on-air shows.· Help create a standardized training program for new producers who are new hires at WeatherNation.· Develop better communication strategy between on-air meteorologists, producers and technical directors.· Standardize and streamline how video, stories and other outside content is ingested into computer systems and put on the air.Qualifications:· Bachelor’s degree in journalism, communications or related field and news leadership experience· 3+ years of content experience, including generation of original content· Solid journalistic and content judgement that emphasizes accurate, fair and unique local content, along with community engagement· Strong communication and conflict management skills· Strong organizational skills in a fast-paced and deadline-driven environment· Work Environment Set: Office: normally performed in a typical interior/office environment· Physical Demands Set: Sedentary work: Involves sitting most of the time; walking, lifting, bending, standingSalary Range: $60,000 – $75,000Full medical, dental and vision benefitsRetirement savings plan with company matchOther key company benefits include disability accident insurance, hospital indemnity, critical illness, life insurance, AD&amp;D, ID protection, pet discount program, and employee assistance programSick leave and PHE benefits under the Colorado HFWA