TEGNA
Local news broadcaster with multiple stations
Multi-Market Commercial Producer
About the job
- A current driver's license and the ability to operate a news gathering vehicle to and from various locations.
- A Bachelor's degree.
- One to three years of experience in commercial production, video production, or related roles.
- A strong portfolio demonstrating successful commercial productions for clients.
- Proficiency in video production tools and software, including Adobe Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro, and After Effects.
- The ability to work in a fast-paced environment and manage multiple projects simultaneously.
- Knowledge of industry trends and an eye for innovative content.
- Lead and manage commercial content production from concept through completion for a range of clients.
- Serve as the primary point of contact for clients throughout the commercial production process.
- Collaborate with clients to understand their goals and needs for commercial production.
- Provide creative direction and guidance to ensure the final product aligns with client objectives.
- Plan, set up, and execute video shoots for commercials and branded content.
- Capture high-quality still images as needed for projects or client campaigns.
- Operate professional cameras, lighting, and other production equipment.
- Develop and present creative concepts, storyboards, scripts, and production strategies.
- Create and manage project timelines, budgets, and production schedules to deliver projects on time and within scope.
- Work with internal teams, freelancers, and contractors as needed for project execution.
- Shoot all aspects of video and content production, including pre-production, shooting, post-production, and final delivery.
- Monitor shoots, troubleshoot issues, and ensure compliance with legal, safety, and quality standards.
- Edit all aspects of video.
- Prepare and manage production budgets, including cost estimations, vendor negotiations, and budget reconciliation.
- Identify opportunities for cost savings and efficient resource allocation.
- Provide input on visuals, graphics, animations, and other creative components to achieve a high-impact commercial product.
- Ensure all content meets brand standards and reflects the client's vision and objectives.
- Oversee editing, audio, color grading, and special effects work.
- Ensure the final product meets client expectations and maintains high production values.
- Facilitate client reviews and make necessary revisions based on feedback.
- Collaborate with sales, marketing, and creative teams to align on project goals and client needs.
- Maintain clear and consistent communication with clients and internal stakeholders throughout the project lifecycle.
- Maintain, transport, and set up cameras, lighting, sound equipment, and other production equipment.
- Ensure all equipment is in working order, perform regular maintenance checks, and troubleshoot technical issues during shoots.
- Stay updated on new gear, tools, and technology that can enhance production quality.
- Experience working with clients from various industries, including retail, home services, healthcare, and legal.
- Familiarity with digital marketing and social media video production.
- Experience in scripting, directing, shooting, and editing.
- Excellent project management and organizational skills.
- Exceptional communication and client relationship-building skills.
About the company
TEGNA provides local news and advertising services. It operates 64 TV stations across 51 U.S. markets and distributes content via web, mobile apps, streaming, and traditional TV. Each station offers live and on-demand news, weather, and sports through Roku and Amazon Fire TV apps. TEGNA produces trusted news content and civic stories, while supporting local businesses with advertising solutions across television, digital, and OTT through Premion. The company differentiates itself by owning top network affiliates in major markets, operating multicast networks (True Crime Network, Twist, Quest), and offering cross-platform local news and targeted advertising to reach local audiences. Its goal is to help communities thrive by delivering truthful reporting and providing sustainable, community-focused media services.
Company Size
1,001-5,000
Company Stage
IPO
Headquarters
McLean, Virginia
Founded
2017
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What believers are saying
- Seattle Kraken and Dallas Wings partnerships deepen TEGNA’s live-sports audience moat.
- June 16 promotion of Kurt Rao accelerates AI and digital-product consolidation.
- July 14 Scott Gill promotion strengthens station technology and sports operations across 64 stations.
What critics are saying
- Judge Troy Nunley’s April 17 injunction keeps Nexstar and TEGNA operationally separated.
- California AG Rob Bonta seeks to block the March 19 Nexstar-TEGNA acquisition entirely.
- If Nunley unwinds the deal, TEGNA loses integration synergies and current leadership structure.
What makes TEGNA unique
- TEGNA owns 64 local stations across 51 markets, plus hundreds of digital properties.
- Premion gives TEGNA a national CTV and OTT ad platform beyond broadcast.
- Brad Ramsey’s sports-rights team keeps locking exclusive local game inventory for stations.
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Benefits
Health Insurance
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
Life Insurance
Disability Insurance
401(k) Company Match
401(k) Retirement Plan
Mental Health Support
Paid Vacation
Paid Holidays
Company News
TEGNA selects Sports Rights star Ramsey for new Group GM role. September 15, 2026 In another move that solidifies TEGNA's "hold separate" status as a California federal district court judge considers whether its regulatory approved merger with Nexstar Media Group is a violation of antitrust law, the broadcast television licensee led by Patrick Paolini has promoted its Sr. VP and Head of Sports Rights and Sr. VP of Revenue to the role of Sr. VP and Group General Manager for TEGNA Media. Dallas-based Brad Ramsey announced his promotion at TEGNA via the LinkedIn social media platform. And, it marks a return of sorts to a position he held from July 2019 through July 2025, when Ramsey served as TEGNA's Sr. VP of Media Operations. Ramsey will continue to serve in his sports rights position, earned in April 2023, while shedding his finance post taken some 14 months ago. As a BIA Local Media & Tech Daily reader, you get special access to RBR+TVBR Premium Content and a special VIP Membership offer, opening up RadioTVBiz.com and providing you with its quarterly Radio + Television Business Report magazine. Take advantage of this special offer by clicking here. With roughly 25 years of experience in broadcast TV that includes a two-year period in which he served as Head of Global Sales for Boats.com and, later, as VP of Strategy for The Center for Sales Strategy, Ramsey is in his second tenure at TEGNA. He first joined the company formerly known as Gannett in October 2012 as President/GM of WVEC-TV in Norfolk. Before that, Ramsey spent 12 years within Gray Media, serving as a sports anchor and reporter and taking sales positions with increased responsibility in Harrisonburg and Winchester, Va. In 2008, he was promoted to VP/GM of WVIR-29 in Charlottesville, Va. After two years leading WVEC, Ramsey would take a corporate role at TEGNA, becoming VP of Sales. He'd stay in the role until September 2016, when he decided a role in the boating industry would prove satisfying. Indeed, he was part of the C-Suite team leading a successful exit to Apax Partners while at Boats Group and Boats.com. As 2018 began, Ramsey returned to broadcast television in a significant way, earning the role of President/GM of one of TEGNA's prized properties: ABC affiliate WFAA-8 in Dallas. By May 2019, a bigger role would arrive for Ramsey, taking a Sr. VP role giving him oversight of ABC affiliate KVUE-24 in Austin and CBS affiliate KENS-5 in San Antonio. With the spring 2023 promotion to his sports rights role, bring pro sports to TEGNA stations has been Ramsey's specialty. This includes Milwaukee Bucks games on WQAD-TV in the Quad Cities of Iowa and Illinois and a Dallas Mavericks package for WFAA-8. Seventeen Indiana Fever WNBA games were seen across TEGNA stations in Des Moines and Louisville, as well as its WQAD-TV and WTHR-TV in Indianapolis in 2024. More recently, the Seattle Kraken NHL franchise struck a deal to have its games air on TEGNA's KING-5 and KONG-TV in Seattle. At the same time, KFAA-29 in Dallas was selected as the exclusive local broadcast partner of the Dallas Wings WNBA franchise, with games airing on six other TEGNA stations in addition to non-owned partner stations. Outside of his roles at TEGNA, Ramsey since 2026 has been Vice Chair of the Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic and on its board of directors since 2020.
Local TV Strategies: tech Futurists on Agility & innovation. Sep 15, 2026 | TVN Staff Save this article for later! Login or create a Free Member Profile to bookmark it. Technology executives from Fox Corp., Nexstar, Gray Media, Tegna and Zixi will frame up plans for syncing tech investments with business objectives amid increasing pressure for efficiency and centralization in a panel at TVNewsCheck's Local TV Strategies conference at the NAB Show New York on Oct. 21. Register here. A panel of the industry's most important technology pioneers will outline the challenges of aligning their tech investments with business objectives in "Tech Futurists on Agility and Innovation," a panel at TVNewsCheck's Local TV Strategies conference at the NAB Show New York on Oct. 21 at the Javits Center. Speakers are Paul Capizzi, SVP media technology & engineering, Fox Corp.; Blake Russell, EVP, operations, Nexstar; Bob Kroeger, SVP and CTO, Gray Media; Melissa A. Zimyeski, VP of product and experience design, Tegna; and Alan Young, VP, strategic business development, Zixi. TVNewsCheck Contributing Editor Glen Dickson will moderate the conversation. "In a period of flat or shrinking revenue growth, technology investments need to be more closely wedded to business outcomes than ever, and Paul, Blake, Bob, Melissa and Alan can speak to this from their current frontline experience," said Michael Depp, TVNewsCheck editor. "Their conversation will be wide-ranging, embracing industry-critical issues including the C-band auction, deepening AI integrations, multiplatform distribution and production in the cloud and storycentric workflows." Other Local TV Strategies sessions include: TV's Watershed 2027: Rebooting Revenue Strategies With Streaming At The Center - As local broadcasters enter 2027 without this year's sports and political tentpoles to lean on, S&P Global's Justin Nielson charts a course for TV to lean into its strengths with live sports and news programming. How can broadcasters balance cost discipline against the need for their network partners to secure must-have live events? How can they expand linear ad revenue while investing significantly more in streaming content and revenue strategies? Local TV Finance Leaders on New Frontiers - Major station group CFOs share their perspectives on the upshot of AI, automation, consolidation, advertising and subscriber revenue and the economics of local news. Where do they see technology and operations helping to drive EBITDA in a rapidly changing omnimedia world? Connecting With Younger Consumers in the Omnimedia Landscape - Magid debuts original research from its News Perception Index that takes a deep dive into the emotional and behavioral drivers of 18-30-year-olds. Where do they access news providers? How do platforms impact their content decisions? What brands are they connecting with, and what are their emotional motivations for doing so? How can news organizations align their revenue and cost strategies to reach this audience profitably? Local Streaming Leaders on Winning Strategies - Top streaming executives at major station groups unpack successful experiments in content/programming, audience development and monetization in a detail-packed overview of the AVOD and FAST landscapes. AI Roadmaps for the TV Station Group - Industry AI pioneers share cutting edge implementations and outcomes across content creation and distribution, operations and monetization. How are groups building or adapting AI systems to fundamentally transform their workflows and business trajectories? Media Buyers And Sellers on 2027's State of Play - Leaders frankly assess a market where silos continue to stymie innovation for regional and national advertisers. How are the buying and selling communities making local advertising more attractive and efficient? Firing Up the Future of Local TV Revenue - Billions of dollars in new ad revenue could flow local TV's way if the industry can collaborate on ways to present a new face to the marketplace - streamlined, multiplatform, interactive. How can station groups work together to win dollars away from digital and CTV by aligning business protocols and technologies? How can they make the most of cross-platform, addressable and programmatic advertising, working with a much wider array of buyers? What do media planners and buyers need to send more revenue local media's way?
Nexstar confirms new TEGNA Board, court filing confirms. August 26, 2026 It's not among the publicly traded company's SEC filings nor is it among the freshly distributed press releases found on its corporate website. Rather, the news was shared via a "Status Report" submitted by Nexstar Media Group through one of its Washington, D.C., attorneys to the judge overseeing its legal battle against DirecTV and a coalition of state Attorneys General. TEGNA has a new Board of Directors, complying with an order from the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California in Sacramento. Beth Wilkinson of Wilkinson Stekloff late Tuesday (8/25) submitted a five-page update to the court, addressing Magistrate Judge Carolyn Delaney along with Troy Nunley, who has been tasked with judging whether the FCC and DOJ-approved combination of Nexstar and TEGNA is a violation of federal antitrust laws. Among the "additional steps" Nexstar and TEGNA engaged in over the last two weeks is - listed third in order of appearance in the document - the seating on Monday of a new TEGNA board. As of today, the TEGNA Board of Directors is comprised of: * TEGNA Chief Executive Officer Patrick Paolini * Eugene Davis, the Chairman/CEO of Pirinate Consulting Group LLC. He is a former President and Vice Chairman of Emerson Radio Corp. and known as a "turnaround" expert who served as a Media General board member following an April 2008 election. * Bruce Levy, who most recently served as Managing Director of Corporate and Investment Banking at Truist Securities until his retirement in 2025. Before that, he was the Managing Director of Media and Telecommunications in the Technology, Media & Telecommunications Investment Banking Group at Wells Fargo Securities, where he spent 34 years until joining Truist in November 2022. "Consistent with the Order, Mr. Paolini, Mr. Davis, and Mr. Levy are not current or former officers, employees, directors, consultants, or other affiliated personnel of Nexstar," Wilkinson tells the court. Additionally, TEGNA on Monday seated its Sr. VP/General Counsel Marc Sher as Secretary of the Board. Importantly, Nexstar notes that Sher was not appointed as a director and does not have a vote on TEGNA's Board. But, like the newly appointed directors, Sher is not a current or former officer, employee, director, consultant, or other affiliated personnel of Nexstar. Rather, he is a 13-year veteran of TEGNA's legal department. Once the appointments were made, Nexstar Chief Financial Officer Lee Ann Gliha resigned as a TEGNA Director, per the court's order. RBR+TVBR RELATED READ:
TEGNA stations receive four National Edward R. Murrow Awards. McLean, Va. - TEGNA Inc. (NASDAQ: NXST) today announced its stations have won four 2026 National Edward R. Murrow Awards for excellence in broadcast journalism. The Edward R. Murrow Awards are sponsored by the Radio Television Digital News Association (RTDNA) and honor outstanding achievements in broadcast and digital journalism. "Our journalists tell stories that make a difference and enrich the lives of the people we serve," said Raquel Amparo, senior vice president of content at TEGNA. "Every day, our news teams show up for their communities: holding power accountable, asking the questions that matter most, and celebrating the people and places that make a community special. If there's a meaningful and relevant story to be told, our teams bring it to our viewers." The prestigious Murrow Awards "recognize local and national news stories that uphold the RTDNA Code of Ethics, demonstrate technical expertise and exemplify the importance and impact of journalism as a service to the community." TEGNA stations' National Edward R. Murrow Award winners are: * KARE - Minneapolis: Hard News, Large Market Television for "A Perfect Heart." The investigation exposes how the Mayo Clinic gave patient Noah Leopold a heart from an overdose victim and then purposely neglected to report post-transplant failure to the FDA to avoid bad publicity. His family's federal lawsuit accuses Mayo of withholding critical information before Noah consented to surgery. * WFAA- Dallas: Continuing Coverage, Large Market Television for "Unlicensed and Unchecked." What started as breaking news grew into something much bigger. This investigation exposed a hidden network of unlicensed facilities operating with little oversight, and the largely unregulated system of placement agents who helped fill them with elderly and disabled residents. WFAA's reporting led Texas Governor Greg Abbott to sign two new bills into law aimed at protecting elderly and disabled residents from exploitation and neglect. * WTHR - Indianapolis (two awards): Feature Reporting, Large Market Television; Excellence in Video, Large Market Television for "Italy's Gelato King." This heartwarming story introduced Indianapolis viewers to Sergio Dondoli, whose award-winning gelato draws visitors from around the world to San Gimignano, Italy. The piece aired as thousands of U.S. visitors and athletes prepared to travel to Italy for the Olympics, tying a global moment to a local-interest story. In June, TEGNA stations were also honored with 50 Regional Edward R. Murrow Awards, including the top honor for Overall Excellence awarded to KGW in Portland, Oregon. KARE in Minneapolis, earned nine awards, including Excellence in Writing, and KUSA in Denver was recognized with six awards including Investigative Reporting. About TEGNA TEGNA Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Nexstar Media Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: NXST), operating independently of Nexstar consistent with the "Hold Separate Order" issued by the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California on April 17, 2026. TEGNA is a multiplatform media company operating 64 local television stations in 51 U.S. markets, and hundreds of websites, mobile and Connected TV (CTV) apps, and Premion, a leading Connected TV and Over-the-Top (OTT) advertising platform.
Jay Wallis left WFAA 8 for TEGNA corporate. Friday, august 14, 2026. Jay Wallis left WFAA 8 Dallas-Fort Worth after more than six years in 2025 and was promoted to lead producer of Growth for TEGNA in April 2026. "It's a creative and collaborative opportunity to help lead a new corporate team focused on developing original digital content, supporting major coverage across the country, and finding new ways to grow audiences," Wallis posted. Discover more TV Networks & Stations Journalism & News Industry Television Industry News Wallis most recently served as executive producer, digital video coordinator and multimedia journalist at WFAA from July 2023 to September 2025. In that role, he led the station's digital video initiatives, launched original programming for WFAA+, and was named WFAA's Innovator of the Year in 2024 for his work on digital transformation and audience growth. He also worked as a multimedia journalist, reporting on sports and general assignment stories, earning multiple honors from the National Press Photographers Association and a 2020 Lone Star Emmy nomination. Following his time at WFAA, Wallis joined TEGNA's Growth team in September 2025 as a growth producer, developing platform-native content and audience growth strategies across the company's stations. He was promoted to lead producer, growth, in April 2026, where he oversees the creative development of original digital video franchises, long-form streaming content, and cross-platform storytelling initiatives across TEGNA's nationwide portfolio. Before joining WFAA, Wallis spent three years as a multimedia journalist at KVUE in Austin, where he earned three consecutive Lone Star Emmy nominations and launched a podcast explaining the news production process. Journalism Career Resources Earlier in his career, Wallis worked as bureau chief at KYTX CBS19 in Tyler-Longview, where he anchored and produced the Sunday newscast while covering major news stories across East Texas. He also served as an editorial assistant for SLAM magazine, contributing to SLAMonline.com, SLAM Magazine, and SLAM Radio. Wallis began his broadcasting career at KOMU-TV in Columbia, Missouri, where he worked as a sports anchor, reporter, producer, and news reporter while attending the University of Missouri. During college, he also interned with Mizzou Athletics, the Frisco RoughRiders, and KBIA 91.3 FM. He graduated from the University of Missouri in 2015 with a Bachelor of Journalism degree in Radio and Television News.