2025 WLWT Summer Intern - Technical

WLWT-TV, the Hearst Television owned NBC affiliate in Cincinnati is recruiting college students for our 10 -12-week, paid summer internship program. The internship focuses on exposing and actively engaging in all aspects of television production with specific focus on engineering, IT, and the support roles within a live broadcast facility. This role reports to the Chief Engineer.

Successful Completion of Internship:

• Perform the duties of an operating engineer, maintenance engineering, and/or IT specialist during a live newscast or event.
• After completing the internship, the intern should understand the role of the technology department in broadcast television, have an understanding of the various support roles within the department and be prepared for an entry level position in broadcast technology fields.
• In-person attendance is required.

Syllabus for Technology Internship

Week 1:  Orientation, Station & Departmental Overviews, Workflow

• Tour the station.
• Be introduced to technology personnel.
• Receive an overview of the production process including interdepartmental processes.
• Watch newscasts with technology team supervisors.
• Meet with individual departmental managers.
• Review departmental dependencies and relationships with engineering and IT.

Week 2:  Operations - Broadcast

• Receive exposure to various facets of broadcast operations including roles and responsibilities.
  • News Operations.
  • Production Control and Studio Operations. 
  • Master Control Operations.
  • Creative Services Operations.
• Discuss FCC compliance (CALM, Transmitter Power Level Requirements, Licensing, Logging, EAS, Emergency information requirements, Closed Captioning, Descriptive Audio, Children’s Programming). 

Week 3: Information Technology

• Infrastructure Overview.
• Broadcast Production Network Overview.
• Virtual Environments. 
• Production Applications – ENPS, HATMOS, Vizrt.
• IT systems integrations within each department.
• Hands-on Work Experience as applicable.

Week 4: Engineering Focused

• Broadcast systems and equipment.
• Signal flows.
• Equipment troubleshooting and repair.
• Planning and installation.
• RF Systems (Microwave, Transmitter, Satellite).
• Baseband equipment overview.
• IP infrastructure migration.
• Hands-on Work Experience as applicable.

Weeks 5 & 6:  Technology Focused

• User Support from workstations to mobile devices.
• Security – software updates, critical updates, Anti-Virus (Crowdstrike), Image Assistant.
• Systems and support.
• Remote access and contribution.
• Software by department and function.
• Hands-on Work Experience as applicable.

Weeks 7 & 8:  Operations Focused

• Production Control.
• News Set Operations.
• News Crew – Field Operations.
• Content Acquisition – SNG, ENG, CNG, TVU.
• Transmitters.
• Content propagation – OTA, MVPD, OTT.
• Broadcast Workflow and Automation Processes.
• Hands-on Work Experience as applicable.

Weeks 9 & 10:  Hands-on Work Experience 

These weeks are dedicated to further exposure and practical experience in the intern’s area(s) of interest. 

Diversity Statement

At Hearst Television we tell stories every day. Stories about people of all cultures, backgrounds, perspectives, and identities. That's why, behind the scenes, we believe in being an organization as diverse and varied as the audience we reach, ensuring that the content we create is more compassionate, and more representative of the communities we serve.

Every career with Hearst Television is like a story. How it develops, where it takes you, the milestones you reach along the way – you’ve got a lot to look forward to as your unique career story unfolds.

Hearst Television, a subsidiary of Hearst, owns and operates local television and radio stations serving 26 media markets across 39 states reaching over 21 million U.S. television households. Through its partnership with nearly all of the major networks, Hearst Television distributes national content over nearly 70 video channels including programming from ABC, NBC, CBS, CW, MY Net, MeTV, This TV, Estrella and more.

Hearst Television is recognized as one of the industry's premier companies. It has been honored with numerous awards for distinguished journalism and industry innovation, including the Walter Cronkite Award for political journalism, the national Edward R. Murrow Award, the DuPont-Columbia Award and the George Foster Peabody Award.