How do they match: Media Technical Directors/Managers

  • Program Director

  • Coordinate activities of technical departments, such as taping, editing, engineering, and maintenance, to produce radio or television programs.

  • Confer with operations directors to formulate and maintain fair and attainable technical policies for programs.
  • Monitor broadcasts to ensure that programs conform to station or network policies and regulations.
  • Operate equipment to produce programs or broadcast live programs from remote locations.
  • Schedule use of studio and editing facilities for producers and engineering and maintenance staff.
  • Set up and execute video transitions and special effects, such as fades, dissolves, cuts, keys, and supers, using computers to manipulate pictures as necessary.
  • Supervise and assign duties to workers engaged in technical control and production of radio and television programs.
  • Switch between video sources in a studio or on multi-camera remotes, using equipment such as switchers, video slide projectors, and video effects generators.
  • Train workers in use of equipment, such as switchers, cameras, monitors, microphones, and lights.