Media Executive - Wsaz; Huntington

Overview

About Gray Media:
Gray Media, or Gray, is a multimedia company headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, formally known as Gray Television, Inc. The company is the nation’s largest owner of top-rated local television stations and digital assets serving 113 television markets that collectively reach approximately 36 percent of US television households. The portfolio includes 77 markets with the top-rated television station and 100 markets with the first and/or second-highest-rated television station, as well as the largest Telemundo Affiliate group with 45 markets totaling nearly 1.5 million Hispanic TV Households.

The company also owns Gray Digital Media, a full-service digital agency offering national and local clients digital marketing strategies with the most advanced digital products and services. Gray’s additional media properties include video production companies Raycom Sports, Tupelo Media Group, Power Nation Studios, and studio production facilities Assembly Atlanta and Third Rail Studios. WSAZ covers a wide, diverse area comprised of three states.

Our viewers and customers are friendly and down-to-earth. Although we’re not a major metropolitan region, the WSAZ market enjoys proximity to many large eastern cities and is accessible by interstate, rail, river, and air. We enjoy all four seasons and the activities that come with each, with many state parks, lakes, restaurants, and local festivals nearby. Since 1949, WSAZ has been a leading source for breaking news, severe weather coverage, and information in western West Virginia, eastern Kentucky, and southern Ohio.

We pride ourselves on a culture that emphasizes teamwork, trust, and community involvement.

WSAZ News Channel 3, a dominant NBC affiliate in the Charleston-Huntington television market, has an immediate opening for an experienced Media Executive for their Huntington office.

• Responsible for developing new accounts for WSAZ, WQCW, ME/MY channels, and WSAZ Digital products
• Expand established customer base by generating new business, selling digital advertising, and growing existing advertising revenue from current clients
• Keep up to date on all station product lines and programming features, including those of competing TV stations and other media platforms
• Negotiate advertising rates and schedules, and prepare creative written and oral proposals to clients
• Provide account updates, communicate monthly projections, and forecast future advertising business
• Monitor accounts receivable of their client base

• Excellent organizational, verbal, and writing skills
• Capable of handling multiple tasks
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Word, Excel, and Power Point
• Proficient with mobile digital technology

If you feel you’re qualified and want to work with a great group of people, go to (Use the "Apply for this Job" box below). you may type in the job title, station call letters, or click on “apply now”, upload your resume, cover letter, and references. Current employees who are interested in this position can apply through the Gray-TV Ulti Pro self-service portal.

WSAZ-TV/Gray Media is a drug-free company.

Gray Media provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, Gray Media complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.

Gray Media prohibits workplace harassment based on race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, or veteran status. Improper interference with the ability of Gray’s employees to perform their job duties may result in discipline up to and including discharge.