DJ Announcer

About the role

iHeartMedia is the number one audio company in America, reaching 90% of Americans every month. We are the largest podcast publisher and host many of the country's most popular and trusted on-air personalities and podcast influencers.

Responsibilities

• Create and produce topics on the radio, including music, entertainment, politics, news, weather, sports, traffic and other topics of interest.
• Create and produce content for stations' social and online platforms.
• Interview musical and community guests for the Philadelphia Market.
• Deliver newscasts; announce radio playlist of musical selections; give weather and traffic conditions; deliver sport scores, statistics and upcoming game information.
• Comment on music and other matters of interest to audience (e.g. time, weather, traffic conditions).
• Write, review and/or edit news copy, introductions, public service announcements, commercials, pre-recorded reports, contests, etc.
• Participate in promotional events.
• Operate control board for studios and remote programming.
• Directly sell advertising space to advertisers.
• Regulate program timing, operate syndicated programming, and play commercials.
• Maintain technical quality and accuracy of incoming and outgoing on-air programming from master control room.
• Protect station's license by censoring live programs and deleting words/phrases not permitted on air.
• Process time-out programming for accurate playback.
• Check studio equipment for proper functioning and notify Engineering of technical malfunctions affecting quality of the broadcast.
• Handle emergency inserts (e.g. news updates and breaking stories, emergencies, alert system tests, etc.).

Qualifications

• Socially informed and perceptive; up-to-date and in tune with local and national trends and/or specialized knowledge of topics/events related to on-air discussions.
• Pleasant, charismatic and well-controlled voice; excellent pronunciation.
• Well-rounded communication skills for conducting interviews.
• Excellent writing and editing skills; proficient in grammar.
• Proficient in media production and broadcast systems.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office and social networking.
• May require selling skills.
• May require other language proficiency, e.g., Spanish.