{"id":34996,"date":"2026-10-01T12:08:33","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T18:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/al-ba.com\/wp2\/?p=34996"},"modified":"2026-10-01T12:08:33","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T18:08:33","slug":"production-associate-wvua","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/al-ba.com\/wp2\/production-associate-wvua\/","title":{"rendered":"PRODUCTION ASSOCIATE &#8211; WVUA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WVUA 23 News (Birmingham DMA #46), the independent commercial television station owned by the University of Alabama, is looking for a production associate to direct 5pm and 9p live newscasts. This is a \u00be-time, Thursday through Monday (weekends), afternoon through evening position (varied 1:30pm to 11:30pm shift) with hourly pay range of $16.63-$19.95 and full University benefits. Some overtime working special events, projects, or programming is possible.<\/p>\n<p>The successful applicant will lead the studio and control room staff for a 30-minute live newscast on Saturday and Sunday evenings as the director, serving as lead professional staff technician on newscasts and shows three days during the traditional work week. Our new team member will also mentor students who are required to build a base of understanding and respect for the technical side of live television broadcasting working crew positions during our broadcasts and tapings.<\/p>\n<p>WVUA 23 News operates in the Digital Media Center inside Bryant-Denny Stadium right on the vibrant and exhilarating campus of the University of Alabama. The station is supported by the Journalism and Creative Media Department in the College of Communication and Information Sciences, which helps prepare student interns to staff newsroom positions from studio camera operator to newsroom video editor to reporter to weekend anchor. We strive to earn our motto, Your Town: Your News, with every broadcast, reaching well beyond campus for stories that impact and interest the people of seven west-central Alabama counties (Walker, Bibb, Hale, Green, Pickens, and Fayette).<\/p>\n<p>Application Deadline 10\/15\/26. Visit UA\u2019s employment website at http:\/\/jobs.ua.edu for more information and to apply. The University of Alabama is an equal opportunity employer (EOE), including an EOE of protected vets and individuals with disabilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WVUA 23 News (Birmingham DMA #46), the independent commercial television station owned by the University of Alabama, is looking for a production associate to direct 5pm and 9p live newscasts. This is a \u00be-time, Thursday through Monday (weekends), afternoon through evening position (varied 1:30pm to 11:30pm shift) with hourly pay range of $16.63-$19.95 and full &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/al-ba.com\/wp2\/production-associate-wvua\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">PRODUCTION ASSOCIATE &#8211; WVUA<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tv-jobs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/al-ba.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/al-ba.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/al-ba.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/al-ba.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/al-ba.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/al-ba.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34997,"href":"https:\/\/al-ba.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34996\/revisions\/34997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/al-ba.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/al-ba.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/al-ba.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}