DESCRIPTION

Job Title: On Air Personality

Department: Programming

Reporting To: Brand Manager

Employment Type: Full-Time

Location(s): Buffalo, NY

Work Arrangement: On-Site

Overview:

WGR Sports Radio 550, The Voice of the Fans is looking for energetic, engaging, and impactful full time Show Hosts to join our Audacy Buffalo team.
WGR Sports Radio 550 is a cornerstone of Buffalo’s sports culture, serving as a central voice, connecting fans across Western New York while fostering a strong sense of community through live coverage, local discussion, and shared passion for the Bills and Sabres.

The ideal candidates are confident communicators with a strong on-air presence, quick thinking, extensive sports knowledge, specially of the local professional teams and their leagues.
This role requires prior broadcast hosting experience, technical and digital skills and a passion for connecting with listeners on a local level, contribute to show preparation, and maintaining WGR’s high standard of credibility and professionalism.

The anticipated starting salary range for New York-based individuals expressing interest in this position is $35,000.00/Yr.-$55,000.00/Yr..

Salary to be determined by the education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities and location of the applicant, as well as internal and external equity.

Audacy offers full time employees with a comprehensive benefits package to include: health care coordinator, medical, dental, vision, telemedicine, flexible spending accounts, health savings account, disability, life insurance, critical illness, hospital indemnity, accident insurance, paid time off (sick, vacation, personal, parental, volunteer), 401(k) retirement plan, discounted employee stock purchase, student loan payment assistance program, legal assistance, life assistance program, identity theft protection, discounted home and auto insurance, and pet insurance.

JOB EXPERIENCE

What You'll Do:

Create original content and performing live broadcasts that are entertaining and informative.
Participate and create original content for all social media platforms; managing online personality presence
Protect the station’s FCC license
Monitor the music and commercial logs for the airshift
Operate the control board and perform production work
Other duties as required by management

REQUIREMENTS

Required & Preferred:

Candidates must exude personality and not be afraid to have strong opinions as well as possess the ability to entertain in person.
This unique individual should possess a strong media background and have a working knowledge of the local professional sports teams and their leagues.
Must be an excellent communicator with strong creative skills.
Must have working knowledge of studio audio equipment necessary for on-air execution.
Knowledge of the format and audience required.

ADDITIONAL INFO

Audacy, Inc. (NYSE: AUD) is a scaled, multi-platform audio content and entertainment company with the country’s best radio broadcasting group, a leader in virtually every segment of audio, and America’s #1 creator of original, premium audio. Audacy engages over 170 million consumers each month, bringing people together around the news, sports, podcasts and music that matter to them. Learn more at www.audacyinc.com, Facebook (Audacy Corp) and Twitter (@AudacyCorp).

HOW TO APPLY

Please upload resume and apply at https://careers-audacy.icims.com/

https://careers-audacy.icims.com/jobs/8181/audacy-buffalo-show-host/job