Jason Drantch Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles, CA

• Oversee most watched local prime sports show in nation’s second-largest media market
• Ratings consistently number one in households, total persons, and key adults 18-49 and 25-54 demos
• Optimized sports department’s daily production workflow, reducing inefficiency by 33%
• Overhauled communication procedures and relations with other departments, increasing productivity by 25%
• Produce weekend half-hour Sports Final shows, sports segments in nightly newscasts, pregame, halftime, and postgame shows for Clippers, Raiders, and Dodgers games airing on KTLA
• Create rundown, assign stories to writers, design graphics, coordinate live shots, and booth shows in control room

Studio City, CA

• 2018 L.A. Emmy Award Winner for producing sports coverage in “CBS2 News at 6: Fire Telethon”
• Promoted over several coworkers with higher seniority to become the youngest producer in the department
• Produce nightly Sports Central shows and news sports segments on CBS2 and KCAL9
• Assist with local coverage around national events airing on CBS2, such as Super Bowls, March Madness, Thursday Night Football, and Rams preseason games
• Determine show’s content, write scripts, design graphics, set up live shots, and oversee PA’s work
• Coordinate with anchors and news producers, handle decisions in the booth, and supervise that shows air smoothly

Studio City, CA

• Cut and edit highlights, sound, B-roll, and teases for Sports Central and CBS nightly news sports segments
• Write scripts and shot sheets for on-air talent, varying each one to match individual anchor’s unique delivery style
• Collaborate with a small team to complete all tapes on time, often under high-pressure with strict deadlines
• Assist producers with any other tasks needing to be completed

UCLA

• Covered UCLA baseball, softball, women’s soccer, and men’s and women's tennis.
• Wrote over 100 articles, including previews and wraps for games and features on the teams and the players.
• Interviewed high profile college athletes and coaches, as well as professionals, former pros and Olympians
• Conducted research, calculated stats and found interesting topics for notebooks and features
• Maintained a constant, effective social media presence, providing news, commentary and analysis via Twitter
• Covered additional relevant stories to UCLA sports such as UCLA facilities renovations, the Olympics, and the Director’s Cup.

Studio City, CA

• Daily logging of sporting events and press conferences.
• Attended games to help cameramen conduct interviews and record sound.

Anaheim, CA

• Planned and conducted a focus group regarding the buying and selling of Angels tickets on the secondary market rather than the primary and how to change that trend.
• Discovered reasons that consumers head to the secondary market and developed a plan for the Angels to bring the consumers back to their ticket markets.

Westwood, CA

• Developed a marketing plan to improve season ticket sales for UCLA men's basketball.
• Focused on the benefits of social media and how to use it to optimize ROI to improve ticket sales.

Bachelor’S Degree, Communication Studies

Activities and Societies: Daily Bruin, Bruin ScoutsMinors: Film, Television, and Digital Media; Political Science

Sports Management And Marketing

MBA Program on Managing Enterprise in Media, Entertainment and Sports with a specialization in Sports Management and Marketing through.

High School

Activities and Societies: SAS (Schools for Advanced Studies), Junior Optimist Octagon International (JOOI) Club, Le Sabre (student.