CAROL LYNN BROWN

Experience

KVUE-TV, Austin, Texas (ABC Affiliate). June 1995-November 2001

Air Switcher

• Controlled on-air quality of the station’s broadcast; airing E.A.S. Tests weekly and monthly; signed the station on/off air, now broadcasting 24-7.
• Pre-rolled and transitioned syndicated programs and network transmissions at the Master Control Switcher* for a commercial broadcast station.
• Logged local breaks, voice overs*, crawls*, cut-ins, and programs on the log; followed rundowns and time sheets*, stopping-down and re-cueing when necessary; back-timed taped shows to hit correct out-times.
• Converted and imported playlists for the Media Pool (Philips Media Pool, Digital Video System) at the Playlist Editor.
• Operated the Media Pool at the Diskcart/Stream, airing commercial, promo, PSA, and ID spots, per the log; replaced and appended playlists; added and deleted, or changed spots in the Media Pool.
• Scheduled feeds at the Earth Station*; routed* and recorded feeds and tape-delayed programs.
• Switched for Daybreak, Midday, 5pm, 6pm, and 10pm newscasts, severe weather cut-ins, election coverage, UNCF Telethon, Children’s Miracle Network Telethon, “Five Who Care,” “Friday Football Fever” roll-ins, and ABC’s Primetime; “count in” * Studio 2 during cut-ins, newscasts, squeezes, and Lotto.
• Communicated pertinent information to the other departments, News, Sales, Traffic, Weather, and Engineering.
• Built and ran back-ups for the high-dollar programming; SAP* for “Monday Night Football” and other Spanish speaking simulcasts; monitored streaming video* for “kvue.com.”
• Reported equipment failure to Engineering; documented trouble on a daily trouble report.
• Won the Air Switcher’s Contest three times for errorless logs and minimizing lengthy trouble reports.
• “Employee of the 3rd Quarter 1999.”
• Developed and wrote operational procedures for the equipment at Master Control, including the Philips Media Pool, the Tektronix Profile*, and the FlashCam.

Tape Operator

• Operated 1”, Beta, and 1/2” D-2 format VTRs*.
• Loaded the animations, news and sports tapes for Daybreak, Midday, 5pm, 6pm, and 10pm newscast.
• Prepared for the newscasts; transferred news briefs, promos, and IDs into the Media Pool.
• Assisted Master Control with feeds, dubs, tape delays, the Profile and the Media Pool operations.

Studio Operator

• Ripped scripts for the newscasts; studied the color signal on a Waveform Monitor and Vectorscope*; transferred commercial spots into the Media Pool.
• Set-up and maintained studios 1 and 2, the storm center, the newsroom, and the courtyard props, set and lighting*; measured incident light*.
• Ran cameras* for a three-camera studio, setting positions and shots, performing on-air zooms and focuses, trucks and dollies, pans and tilts, and externals and sidebars.
• Ran teleprompter* and CC encode during newscasts.
• Managed floor for newscasts, CMNT, news briefs, and storm weather coverage, giving stand-by cues* to the talent.
• Set-up the remote operations for a live, hockey game broadcast, “Austin Ice Bats vs Waco Wizards.”
• Edited newscast packages in the Edit Bays*.