James Spurgeon Email & Phone Number

St Louis, Missouri, United States

• Act as liaison between production and sales when necessary• Speak on behalf of the editors/photographers• Assemble a yearly production budget (working with production staff and station GM)• Operated teleprompter for studio shoots when necessary• Working with Engineering and Chief Engineer to make sure desktop computers and editing computers are up to code with software updates and antivirus updates• Made sure that freelance Master Control Operators could double in production department• Point person for our on-air Snipes• Communicate with all necessary departments any technical issues

Greater St. Louis Area

• Recognize projects that need completed• Delegate tasks or develop strategy to complete the task individually• Assist Chief Engineer with maintaining equipment and installing new equipment• Proofread schedules and timecards for accuracy• Maintain both the studio building and transmitter• Solve any crisis that occurs regardless of hour or day• Sidelined projects were placed back on track and completed• Figured out a way for sales to sell more ad space in our news crawls• Perform IT work as necessary such as running cables, imaging computers, perform updates, etc.• Communicate with all necessary departments any technical or mechanical issues• Point person at the station for corporate when switching from Avaya phones to Skype phones• Work with Chief Engineer and Regional Engineer on yearly budget

Greater St. Louis Area

• Reorganized and prepared database for new School Closing system• Assisting in the preparation of our NewsTicker crawls and graphics• Monitor all digital channels and ensure they run smoothly• Run all Weather, School Closings, and AMBER alerts• Problem solving when technical difficulties arise

St. Louis, Mo

• Research, develop, and write intelligent and common sense commentary related to current political topics from an independent and sometimes historical perspective.• Promote the column and IVN on various social media platforms

Greater St. Louis Area

• Research, develop, and provide intelligent and debatable commentary related to current political news and social norms with a bit of an historical perspective• Manage social media profiles to create an overall social media strategy to create social media buzz and promote InDeclaration• http://indeclaration.wordpress.com• http://www.facebook.com/InDeclaration

Greater St. Louis Area

• Responsible for recording all satellite feeds and coordinating on air promos• In charge of placing shows on air from DVC-Pro & HD tapes and Sundance server• Monitor all channels & ensure they run smoothly• Maintain and run EAS & AMBER alerts

Certificate Of Completion, Tv/Film

Summer Production Workshops

Bachelor Of Science, Mass Communications (Tv/Radio)