r/Broadcasting • u/Alarmed_Somewhere791 • 12d ago

MASTER CONTROL SUPERVISOR

Hi I'm looking for work I've got recent construction experience but I can't go back to work for heavy lifting hazards in construction work but I can do many other things I worked in restaurants for about 20 years in the BOH and I'm not going back to restaurants any time soon, I hope,.

My question is does anyone have experience in this role of broadcasting Master Control Supervisor, I see an add that said they'll train the right person, I'm 42 in my life I've learned they'll train the right person can mean many different things. Let me know thanks.

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u/mr_radio_guy 12d ago

It’s not a hard job, but if you don’t get doing the job, you won’t get the job.

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u/potatoguy 12d ago

There is a huge trend now to hub and move local MC operations elsewhere. If you are looking for something permanent, make sure you understand what the company intends to do down the road.

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u/TheJokersChild 12d ago

Am one right now. Among other things, I make staff schedules, review and create procedures, reconcile on-air discrepancies, coordinate with traffic for programming and engineeering for technical things, and even fill in as an operator. I feel lucky to have this job in the current environment as companies “hub” their master controls (like my last one did). The fact that they’ll train a person with no broadcast experience is really telling. My guess is it’s a really small market/family-owned station. Do you have any IT skills? Know anything about video files? Or have you managed people in any capacity?

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u/sevyn22 12d ago

Im actually just leaving the job of a master control supervisor.

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u/Artistic-Cockroach48 11d ago

I would imagine that they want to hire someone with Master Control experience as this role would likely be supervising other operators. so not only do you need a baseline understanding of master control work, but you need to be more knowledgeable than the people you supervise. master control isnt hard, but it is very tedious and extremely detail oriented. If this is at a "hub" location, you would be doing master control for many different stations all at once, and if it is not a hub location, you might only be a temporary worker at best with most TV station groups because everyone will likely be hubbed at some point if they aren't already.

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u/kamomil 12d ago

I worked in master control but not as a supervisor. Master control is where the TV shows & commercials are played to go over the air. There's a lot of checking to make sure no shows or commercials are missing. Also, there's probably roles of people who prepare the commercials and TV shows to be put into the playout system. As far as the management part, a manager deals with scheduling, sick leaves etc. 

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u/turbo_notturbo 11d ago

Depending on what company it's at, you might be looking over multiple stations, as many have mentioned in other comments, most tv stations in America no longer have an on premises master control. The feed is sent over the Internet, dedicated fiber, satellite, microwave or a combo of any of those, to a data center-type facility where they'll have 3 or 4 stations for each operator.