Producer - Content in Santa Monica, CA at Sinclair Broadcast Group

Date Posted: 4/15/2024

Job Snapshot

Job Description


Pickleball TV’s Content Team is looking for a Producer who is experienced in both linear and non-linear production and can create compelling content for multiple platforms.


Responsibilities include but are not limited to:



  • Work alongside producers, editors, and content creators covering linear TV, streaming websites, OTT, news editorial, and social media.

  • Oversee various projects from ideation, development, to production in the field, post-production and distribution.

  • Produce series, short form, digital original, sizzles, social content, highlights and promotional video.

  • Ideate and create content that will resonate with digital & social audiences around what’s trending.

  • Experience working with talent and online influencers to deliver non-linear content for all platforms that will generate views and increased impressions.

  • Track all video in development and ensure each platform has been delivered correct versions.

  • Work with producers, editorial staff & newsroom to generate daily video content around breaking news.

  • Manage editors and their schedule.

  • Review clearances to price out and clear all footage.

  • Help improve processes to build out our omnichannel content team.


Required qualifications:



  • Bachelor’s degree

  • Minimum 6 years work experience

  • A passion for trending content, news, Internet culture, video streaming and social media

  • Tech savvy - knowledge of Avid, Premiere, Adobe Suite, website/app CMS, social analytics, mobile

  • Strong content and editorial judgement 

  • Self-starter who can work in a team environment

  • Clear and concise, articulate with notes and ideas, organized

  • The pace is fast and may require occasional long hours, nights and weekends

  • An interest in learning sports & tennis, current tennis knowledge a bonus


Tennis Channel is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and Drug Free Workplace!


About PickleballTV 


Pickleballtv (PBTV) is the 24-hour television home of America’s fastest growing sport. With coverage of tournaments throughout the year, the network offers 1,000+ hours of live matches from the game’s top professionals and biggest stars. PBTV also provides viewers with first-class instruction, exclusive lifestyle programming and studio news content and more.


About Tennis Channel

Tennis Channel is the media home to two twenty-four-hour television networks, a subscription streaming service, online magazine and podcasts dedicated to the sport and its unique lifestyle. The tennis-media hub is home to every aspect of the wide-ranging, worldwide tennis community. Tennis Channel is carried nationwide by every one of the top ten pay-TV service providers.



About Sinclair

Make your mark in Media with Sinclair Broadcast Group, a diversified media company dedicated to connecting people with content everywhere! We have consistently led the broadcast industry since our inception, and now Sinclair owns the largest regional sports network business and one of the largest television broadcast portfolios in the country. Also, we have affiliations with all of the major broadcast networks, our own Tennis Channel, and several multicast networks including TBD and Comet. Our content is distributed over-the-air, on multi-video providers, and through our industry-leading digital media platforms. Our success is the direct result of our extraordinary employees and management team who believe in our vision and are dedicated to ensuring a great future for our employees. We are advancing the world of Media and want YOU to join our winning team!

About the Team

The life-blood of our organization is our people. We have a compelling story, a goal-oriented culture, and we take really good care of people. How good? Here is a glimpse: great benefits, open-door policy, upward mobility and a strong desire to see you succeed. Ready to be part of a winning team? Let’s talk.


The base salary compensation range for this role is $70,000 to $100,000. Final compensation for this role will be determined by various factors such as a candidates’ relevant work experience, skills, certifications, and geographic location. Full time positions are eligible for benefits that include participation in a retirement plan, life and disability insurance, health, dental and vision plans, flexible spending accounts, sick leave, vacation time, personal time, parental leave and employee stock purchase plan.


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