news producer

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Sinclair-Broadcast-Group

I took a slight pay cut coming to Sinclair because I was sold on the idea that there was opportunity for growth and advancement and I regret it. They will tell you what ever you want to hear to get you in the position they want you in. Once your there good luck getting out. When I first started there was no kind of training you had to figure most things out for yourself. In my interview I was sold on the fact that they had tons of opportunity to advance and they offered tuition reimbursement. There were never many opportunities to move up and when there were two I was passed up and two outside people were brought in, but I was expected to help show them everything that they didn't know. This is the type of place that will make you resent your job and make it hard to want to get up and go in. Also, Sinclair should not be allowed to advertise that they offer tuition reimbursement when everyone I know who has applied for it has been denied including myself even though the degree was to help further our careers with Sinclair. Out of all my employment experiences Sinclair does not care about their employees. They treat employees unfair. I was told that I could not come in a half hour early and leave a half hour early on the days I had class, but another employee was allowed to leave an hour early because they had a second job as a bartender. Like really I am going to school to better myself and learn more about the industry and I can't leave a half hour early, but someone leaving to go bar-tend for another establishment can leave an hour early 3 days a week. Management is a joke and work what ever hours they would like. While they are never there on time or constantly leaving early for personal reasons, they expect you to follow a precise 8 to 5 schedule.  If your applying for a position and it's what you want to do for the next 20 years than go for it. I would not stay at a company that likes to keep their employees in entry level positions. I know people who have been there for over 20 years and they are still in entry level positions and most hate their job and complain, but they stay because they believe they are too old or fear starting over somewhere else. They started there before it was Sinclair, they said when Sinclair took over there were changes that they didn't like. I don't see how a company can say that the care about the community when they don;t even care about their employee's. The let go there community outreach person and did away with the position. They want to look like they care but they don't.

Specifically, I worked apart of their digital marketing branch, Compulse Integrated Marketing.

It's a great opportunity if you're coming out of college looking to get your start in the digital marketing world. The compensation is fair for entry-level if you have little professional experience but for anyone moving from another digital agency, this company is not worth your attention unless you are financially desperate.

Little income gain benefits (No pay increases unless they're severely desperate to keep you on a hard to fill position), no bonuses (Other than the 1.5% annual income gain) or promotion opportunities, (Company growth is horizontal, not lateral and they do not promote from within. They will tell you otherwise to win you over in the interview process like every other company does though), long hours usually leading into overtime with no additional compensation (Burnout is incredibly high and visible in every department around you) and there is no concrete provided education/career building opportunities (It's expected you should just do so on your own time at home) and can sometimes feel like a digital products and services sweatshop.

Over time you will realize your skills and habits developed through Compulse Integrated Marketing will make you unmarketable because they are clearly behind with industry standards in every area, across all branches.

The culture of Compulse Integrated Marketing is also a little toxic. This is due to the overall culture of Sinclair Broadcasting Group, it's parent company, trickling down as well as the general low self-esteem levels among many of its employees. I don't blame management for the direct issues, but they do very little to assuage the concerns or developing stresses of their workers.

I enjoyed my time spent there but it was mostly due to the age group of the employees I worked alongside. All being of the millennial generation, there was a sense of comradery amidst the struggles and general disappointment working there. Though on the reverse end, I will also admit the community can often remind you more of a high school than a professional workspace due to the clique-like nature of its employees. Maybe this is because they are millennials but that's a hopeful assumption that they'll grow out of it and that it's not just their generation.

Sinclair Broadcast Group San Antonio is an elite team of sales professionals in the world of broadcast and digital marketing with years of experience and proven results. These are great jobs that will challenge you hardcore but reward you with very high pay if you can do it. If you're willing to work hard, learn their proven methods, let your leaders guide you and drive you, you'll be rewarded with exponential personal growth and great paychecks. It’s also a career you can keep for years. Sinclair Broadcast Group in San Antonio has three TV stations and very advanced digital advertising to offer. Sinclair is already running full speed and if you want to work here, you've got to hit the ground running and learn fast and keep up the pace. They run their San Antonio operation with a very high level of discipline and they'll drive you to that level of expectation. This level of discipline is something that you can take to other "mediocre" companies and literally be a super star. I came to Sinclair because my past employer was bought out by another organization, they changed the whole theme of the company and my position was eliminated after 15 years. With so much digital marketing experience, I could have chosen to work just about anywhere.  Sinclair Broadcast Group in San Antonio TX has a digital marketing division called Compulse Digital and it's the real deal! They have so many digital campaign types.  Their offerings are very agency-like with Google Analytics integration as well.  Their TV programing is very current and they have great ratings - anywhere I go, if they see I'm from News 4 or Fox 29, I get instant respect!  That's why I chose to work there and I knew about the high expectations they have for their employees going in.  Yes it's been challenging.  But I've grown a lot professionally and I'm now 10 levels above where I was before I started here and still learning a lot.  Definitely worth it and the pay is great too!

"In sales, you are given your budget for the month 2 weeks before the beginning of the month. Budgets are unattainable. When budgets are not met, AEs are penalized with additional meetings, paperwork and micro management overkill. Proposal packages are created to benefit the station, not the client. Each year the commission structure is up for review based on annual station budgets which are rarely met. This means the commission structure they promise you upon employment can change. Additionally, Sinclair LOVES to find ways to keep your commission. If clients do not pay by a set date to a PO BOX address in Texas, AEs are not paid their commission. This PO BOX is the lone address for payments from ALL Sinclair stations in all markets. This means hundreds of thousands of checks coming in each month to one address. You can guarantee at least 20%-40% of that commission you earned will not be paid to you. Did I mention potential clients have to sign up for a payment portal? Clients can pay by credit card for a $20 fee. To most local direct clients, this is a nightmare. For agencies with heavy turnover, it's almost impossible to get changes made through this portal, which was not tested, it was launched in all markets at the same time, causing complete chaos. This should give you some idea of the thought process that goes into the many "programs" you must learn to be a proper AE with Sinclair. Between managing existing business, collecting payments, cold calls, meetings, reports, learning new software systems and digital products, creating proposals for potential new clients, agency makegoods, discrepancies and posts, it is almost impossible to get out of the office to make sales calls, which is the main purpose of the account executive. Low company morale. Avoid this company. Notice high turnover rate. Read the non-compete, you are trapped with Sinclair." Lastly, Sinclair just fires an anchor that was out on sick leave with cancer. Sinclair does not care.

First let me start by saying that Sinclair has the potential to be a great employer. There's so much wasted potential in the company it is ridiculous. If you are young (under 50...I kid you not) and have ideas on how to move the company forward, you can pretty much forget about it. At present time, Sinclair isn't a "team us" kind of workplace, more like a team "you work for us" kind of workplace.
If you are a minority (read: anything other than a white male) you pretty much live under the glass ceiling everyday. A bit frustrating if you are someone with goals and aspirations of moving up in the company because you don't see a very diverse upper management team. Kind of odd because 95% of the people who work in corporate HR are women, you would think someone would have the courage or common sense to say to management, "hey, we should think about adding a little flavor to our management team".
At present, it feels like an entertainment company run by old-guard number crunchers. There's really no want for innovation and there's definitely no company wide culture geared at inspiring employees other than "you'll get a check every 2 weeks...if we don't lay you off." Best part of the job is that you know you are working with some really incredible young talent. From sales, to news, to finance, to promotions, there's a lot of really talented people working at Sinclair on the lower end of the totem pole. However, it's entirely possible for you to be a really awesome talented young professional and still hold that same position and pay grade 7 years later due to no fault (other than being loyal to one company with hopes of advancement) of your own. If you're a young professional with hopes of advancing your career in television/entertainment Sinclair is a great training ground. Just don't go in with the mindset that you are going to climb some sort of mythical corporate ladder.

You will not be an assistant, you will have a lot to manage. This is nowhere an easy job. 

I went into this thinking this is an entry level job, I was wrong. The pay is entry level, but the workload is never ending. 

You're definitely going to be doing a 2-3 person job and it will drain you mentally. You have to be a type A person, at minimum, and learn how to file quickly within your first day. Filing is key, you will not only submit order, but also file, and also check the orders every single day and have an update on them. 

I went in thinking I was going to connect and do small bills and small processing orders; I was wrong. You're going to do data entry, very complicated data entry that have to be followed a certain way. 

You must follow about 30-40 steps to submit a single order and you must do a minimum of 50 orders a day. Keep in mind that you would have to do follow up on orders many times. 

This is not a job for a recent college graduate, nor someone starting their first office job. This is a very highly skilled job. Only a select few will do it, but even then, the pay compared to the rest of the company workers in minimal. 

You would make about the amount of money as a full time cashier. Just take my word for it. I honestly do think amazon warehouse pays more at this point.

I won't lie the benefits are good, pretty much the standard, health & vision and some vacation days. 

Also, in many occasions my coworkers had mental breakdowns. I've seen people cry because the stress is too much. full tears in the middle of the day. 

The higher ups have been there for more than 20 years, everyone else quits in about 3-6 months of the corporate office (not news side). 

only a handful, a few selected have managed to stay there for more than a year. you have to have a very thick skin or the managers will eat you alive. 




I don’t know where to even begin with this company. I worked as a production assistant for 7 months before I couldn’t work there any longer. When I was hired there my manager made it seem like I was the most privileged person in the world to be getting the position that I did, that I should feel honored. However having now worked there it was one of the worst working experiences of my life. I came in at 4:00am Monday through Friday to come and set up the studio myself and do most of the opening work because my supervisor would often times take a nap in her car and come in a half hour after she was supposed to get there. This also meant I had to teach myself how to do her opening work because we were so understaffed that I wasn’t being trained by anyone to do much of anything. My production manager was only there three of the 7 months that I worked at the station and when she was there she went around and started hour long conversations and distracted people from doing their jobs. She would also tell you about other people in the company’s business and work related issues she had been having with them which is completely unprofessional. On top of that my managers and coworkers were amongst the most unpleasant and discouraging people I’ve ever worked with. I was constantly being put down and my supervisor publicly talked poorly about the other coworkers over the headset. With all of these things in mind, and taking into account that I was only being paid 10$ an hour, it was by far the worst company, and the worst station I’ve ever worked at in my whole life.

Television advertising has been my experience for over 20 years.  I've enjoyed many elements of this industry including developing and growing professional relationships, developing and executing solutions that benefit my clients, and becoming an expert in my field and the various markets that I had a presence in.

There is no typical day at work.  On average, a work week will consist of prospecting for new business, managing and growing current account lists, account maintenance, market research, and company/corporate reporting.

Management at Sinclair could improve.  There are 2 primary managers - the Station Manager and the Director of Sales.  Both bring different perspectives and personalities to the company.  Being able to adapt my personality when talking with both managers was critical.

The hardest part of the job is meeting the expectations and goals.  In a market where you are selling, or positioning, the 6th strongest product is always going to be a challenge.  Competition in this market is a big factor that was dealt with on a common basis.  However, being able to identify prospects that would best benefit from my station was key to my success.

The best part of working at this company is the advancement of technology.  We are moving into a digital world, and there were many digital solutions that we could present to our clients.  Not every client can afford to advertise on television, the digital products provided us an opportunity to present new alternatives that would have impactful results for these small to medium size businesses.

How great it'd be to work for a news station is something that a normal person would think...until you get hired. They train you on the bare minimum to get you out the door to start making sales & calls. It's all about money as it should be to run a business but enough is never enough!! Every year your quarterly budget goes up almost making it impossible to meet. Lack of management is a huge problem. One hand doesn't know what the other is doing or they don't know the best way to resolve a problem. Obviously there is an internal problem when you constantly have employees leaving left & right. They are more worried about pushing & introducing new software & making sure you're meeting budget to even care about the issues locally at hand. They don't care that the economy is terrible right now. They keep pushing to call all of these businesses not caring that they either have the money to spend but aren't spending the money because of the economy -OR- they don't care or understand that these companies just don't have the money to spend because they're just trying to live & make the bills to keep their doors open. I could go on & on but it'd do no good. They also say that they have an open door policy but the way management is people are scared to utilize that.

At the end of the day, DO NOT work for the company. You're nothing but a number with no value. You're easier to replace than to take the time to fix the root of the problem which comes from local & regional management all the way to corporate!!!

It was a very fun job  however toward the end of my time here I felt the environment became toxic. I have rarely encountered such a challenging dynamic with a supervisor in terms of mutual respect. 
My previous supervisor exhibited a strong attention to detail and a high level of involvement in day-to-day tasks, which at times presented challenges in maintaining a consistently positive working relationship. There was a unique management style that focused heavily on oversight and feedback, which sometimes made me feel undervalued as an experienced professional. Upon my departure, there appeared to be a sense of relief or satisfaction.  My supervisor engaged in behavior that seemed aimed at creating discord among my team members and expressed displeasure when we maintained positive working relationships. Additionally, they made disparaging remarks about both myself and my female colleague to our male coworker, which gave rise to concerns of potential gender-based bias in their actions. Lastly 
my supervisor frequently adopted a condescending tone when I encountered difficulties in comprehending certain matters, consistently asserting their own correctness in a manner that was less than collegial. This type of environment that I have been in for the past year made it very difficult to enjoy a job I once loved. TLDR great place and station unless you work in promotions. 


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