Playout Producer

ESPN; Hilversum; On-site; EUR 60,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

ESPN in Hilversum is seeking a playout producer to prepare live and non-live events for our linear channels. You’ll ensure UWCL and La Liga content is localized for each market and coordinated with global MCR partners.

As part of the playout team you will create On Air graphics, present during broadcasts, manage transmission lines, and stay up-to-date with streaming protocols and encoding standards. Dutch and English fluency and flexibility with evening/weekend shifts are required.

Qualifications

• At least 3-5 years of work experience in TV productions
• Excellent time management skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Meeting tight deadlines without stress
• Fluent in Dutch and English verbally and written
• Experience working flexible and irregular hours

Responsibilities

• On Air Graphics (Playout)
• Present during live broadcasts and major projects in our playout
• Stay up to date with the latest technological developments and innovations in our industry

Skills

Dutch fluency

English fluency

Time management

Communication skills

Live production

Flexible hours

Job description

About The Role & Team

As a playout producer you are working from the production office in the Playout (Hilversum). You are responsible for preparing both live and non-live sporting events for our linear TV channels. In addition, you ensure that viewers in different countries can watch competitions such as the UEFA Women’s Champions League (UWCL) and La Liga on Disney+, with the appropriate language and localization for each market. To arrange all incoming and outgoing lines, you’re the spider in the distribution network. You stay in close contact with our different MCR’s worldwide: Gravity Media (EMG), BT-Tower, SES, Bristol. Together with them you are responsible that every live event is available to broadcast according to the right program guidelines & instructions. In addition to being the central point of contact for booking and coordinating all transmission lines, you also have a strong understanding of, and overview of, all content traffic. This ensures that the right content is delivered to the right destination, at the right time, across our various platforms and markets. Also, part of the channel preparations is creating On Air graphics like channel bugs, banners, crawls etc. Given the nature of our industry, flexibility is essential. Working evening and weekend shifts should therefore be an integral and comfortable part of the role.

Values

You’ll join a team grounded in our Disney values — acting with Integrity, welcoming everyone through Inclusion, embracing boundless Creativity, working together through Collaboration and caring deeply for our Community. These values shape how we work and how we support one another every day.

What You Will Do

• On Air Graphics (Playout)
• Present during live broadcasts and major projects in our playout
• Stay up to date with the latest technological developments and innovations in our industry

Areas of Accountability

• Distrubtion costs

Experience And Professional Qualifications Required

• At least 3-5 years of work experience in TV productions
• Excellent time management skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Meeting tight deadlines without stress
• Fluent in Dutch and English verbally and written
• Experience working flexible and irregular hours

Required Qualifications & Skills

For this position you need to have good knowledge of technical operations for our playout, specifically for inbound (and sometimes outbound/crossconnect) transmissions of all our broadcast events, including an eye for quality requirements.

This includes knowledge of key elements of streaming protocols, transmissions and encoding/decoding of audio/video for both common and broadcast-specific video-standards. Terms as video-standard conversion, color space, IP-video, bitrates, different types of metadata and how they can influence your signal delivery or broadcast, (shouldn't be all new to you.)

The Walt Disney Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We strive to be a diverse workforce that is representative of our audiences, and where all can thrive and belong. Disney is committed to forming a team that includes and respects a variety of voices, identities, backgrounds, experiences and perspectives. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

Disclaimer

This position is with TWDC (Benelux) BV, which is part of a business we call Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology.

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