Weekend Sports Anchor

The Victoria Television Group, a Morgan Murphy Media company has an immediate opening for an innovative, audience-minded weekend sports anchor/MSJ at KAVU-TV.

You’ll work with the sports team to produce compelling content on KAVU-TV, CrossroadsToday.com, our app, and social media platforms owned and operated by The Victoria Television Group. You’ll record and edit highlights for our nightly sportscasts and produce and anchor four weekend sportscasts. We take great pride in our coverage of local high school sports and area college athletics. You’ll join a close-knit news team in the Crossroads close to Houston, Austin, San Antonio, and Corpus Christi.

What you’ll do:

• Create, develop, and manage content for KAVU-TV and Crossroads Today digital properties 
• Help coordinate newsroom and web projects. Ability to respond to breaking news. 
• Work with the sports director and news director to formulate a plan that maximizes the success of our newscasts and digital properties
• Update the news staff daily on assignments; update news staff as stories and trends change throughout the day 
• Produce compelling, timely newscast content with an emphasis on promoting Crossroads Today and KAVU-TV brands 
• Drive audience growth strategy through sports/news/marketing initiatives and publishing compelling content 
• Proactively seek out and publish content, generate story ideas, and promote Crossroads Today through social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram

What you’ll bring: 

• Exceptional communication and organizational skills 
• Self-starter who works well with minimal supervision 
• Ability to manage multiple projects, adapt to flexible schedules and thrive in a fast-paced deadline driven environment. 
• Knowledge of HTML, WordPress, SEO, RSS, and FTP  
• Basic Adobe Photoshop skills

Preferred Qualifications:   

• Bachelor’s degree in English, Journalism, Technical Writing, or a related field 
• Previous newsroom experience encouraged
• Familiarity with Google Analytics, Chartbeat, CrowdTangle or similar 

What The Victoria Television Group offers: 

• We’re a dynamic and progressive family-owned business that values our employees, our culture, and our community 
• We are a team of talented and creative professionals.
• Medical, dental, vision, prescription, life and long-term disability insurance, EAP, flexible spending account, 401(k), paid time off including vacation, sick, personal days, and holidays

Disclaimer: As a condition of employment, Morgan Murphy Media requires that newly hired employees be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 to the extent permitted by applicable law and subject to any medical or religious accommodations.

Morgan Murphy Media is an equal opportunity employer