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VERSANT (Nasdaq: VSNT) is an industry-changing media and entertainment business and home to trusted brands that shape culture, inform audiences, and build lasting connections. It operates across four core markets: political news and opinion, business news and personal finance, golf, and sports and genre entertainment. These markets are served through a powerful portfolio of iconic and innovative brands, including CNBC, MS NOW, USA Network, Golf Channel, Oxygen, E!, SYFY, and Versant’s sports division USA Sports, along with complementary digital assets including Fandango, Rotten Tomatoes, GolfNow and GolfPass.

Versant is seeking a PEP Transmission Coordinator to support Transmission and Acquisition operations in a fast-paced live environment. This freelance role helps manage signal flow, routing, quality control, monitoring, and communication across assignment desk teams, bureaus, remote sites, control rooms, Versant partners, and affiliates.

Why This Role Matters: The Transmission Coordinator plays a critical role in ensuring live and recorded content is delivered clearly, reliably, and on time across news, entertainment, and sports coverage. This role helps keep teams connected during daily coverage, planned events, evolving stories, and breaking news.

This is an onsite role based in New Jersey and is required to be performed full-time from a Versant-designated worksite. Candidates must be flexible with assigned shifts to support relief coverage, breaking news, and a 24/7/365 operation. This role is overtime-eligible.

What You'll Do

• Route, monitor, and quality-control incoming and outgoing feeds and streams across news, entertainment, and sports coverage.
• Communicate with live control rooms, assignment desk teams, bureaus, field crews, remote studios, partners, and affiliates to support daily transmission needs.
• Support remote contribution using technologies such as LiveU bonded cellular, terrestrial vendors, satellite, and IP solutions to optimize signal quality.
• Book and schedule remote facilities and transmission resources as needed to support coverage plans and production needs.
• Troubleshoot signal, audio, video, data, and continuity issues with strong attention to detail and urgency.
• Partner with Versant O&T Engineering and Incident Management teams to resolve equipment malfunctions, technical issues, and outages.

What You Bring

• 1–3 years of proven experience in live-to-air television operations.
• Experience in a TOC/NOC or comparable operations environment with responsibility for audio, video, data quality, and continuity.
• Hands-on familiarity with transmission facility hardware, including LiveU, satellite receivers, antennas, IP/ASI encoders and decoders, and video plant router control panels.
• Ability to meet strict deadlines in a quick-turn, evolving live production environment.
• Strong critical thinking, diagnostic ability, attention to detail, and troubleshooting skills.
• Ability to work effectively in a team environment with minimal supervision.
• Flexibility to work assigned shifts, overtime, relief coverage, breaking news, and a 24/7/365 operation as needed.

You’ll also bring Versant’s How We Do It behaviors to the work:

• Trust: You monitor signals carefully, escalate issues appropriately, and help ensure reliable delivery of critical content.
• Teamwork: You collaborate across control rooms, assignment desks, field teams, engineering, partners, and affiliates to keep coverage moving.
• Transparency: You communicate clearly and quickly when technical issues, outages, or signal concerns arise.
• Agility: You adapt to changing coverage needs, breaking news, shift changes, and evolving transmission requirements.
• Entrepreneurial Spirit: You are self-managing, eager to learn new technologies, and proactive in improving operational support.

Bonus points for superior interpersonal and communication skills, experience supporting complex remote productions, and a demonstrated willingness to learn new technologies.

Why You’ll Love It Here

You’ll be part of a fast-moving media environment where live production, transmission operations, and real-time problem-solving come together every day. This freelance PEP role offers the opportunity to support high-impact coverage across news, entertainment, and sports while working closely with experienced operations, editorial, engineering, and production teams.

This role is based onsite in New Jersey and requires flexibility to support business needs, including assigned shifts, overtime, relief coverage, breaking news, and a 24/7/365 operation.

As part of our selection process, external candidates may be required to attend an in-person interview with a VERSANT Media employee at one of our locations prior to a hiring decision. VERSANT Media's policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, gender identity or expression, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, veteran status, membership in the uniformed services, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law.

If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran and require support throughout the application and/or recruitment process as a result of your disability, you have the right to request a reasonable accommodation. You can submit your request to candidateaccessibility@versantmedia.com.

VERSANT Media is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. We include a good faith pay range for each position to comply with applicable state and local pay transparency laws and to promote equity across our organization. Actual compensation will be based on factors such as the candidate's skills, qualifications, experience, and location and may include additional forms of compensation and benefits such as health insurance, retirement plans, paid time off, etc.

VERSANT Media is not accepting unsolicited assistance from search firms for this employment opportunity. All resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at VERSANT via-email, the Internet, or in any form and/or method without a valid written Statement of Work in place for this position from VERSANT's Talent Acquisition team will be deemed the sole property of VERSANT. No fee will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by VERSANT as a result of the referral or through other means.