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Blue Ant Media is a privately held, international production studio and rights business and channel operator. The company's studio creates and distributes a premium slate of programming, in all content genres, for streaming and broadcasting platforms around the world. Blue Ant Media also operates free streaming and pay TV channels under several media brands internationally, including Love Nature, Cottage Life, Smithsonian Channel Canada, BBC Earth Canada, HauntTV, Homeful, Drag Race Universe, Total Crime, Declassified, Love Pets and Love Drama. Blue Ant Media is headquartered in Toronto, with six international offices in Los Angeles, New York, Singapore, London, Washington and Sydney. blueantmedia.com⼁Instagram⼁LinkedIn⼁X⼁

Our employees are passionate experts in all of our business areas. They are fanatical about creating outstanding content and experiences, and about delivering them on new and evolving platforms. We actively seek new employees who embody our core values. We want them to think big, act with purpose, celebrate creativity, do the right thing, respect one another, and succeed together. We attract creative talents who are optimistic about the evolving future of content and who take pride in recognizing opportunities where others see challenges. At Blue Ant Media, we give them the flexibility to think like entrepreneurs, take ownership of their projects, take risks, and embrace innovation in a rapidly evolving media landscape. Our team members excel at collaborating with internal and external partners by building trusting, respectful working relationships.

Blue Ant Media is an international production studio and rights business and channel operator. The company's studio creates and distributes a premium slate of programming, in all content genres, for streaming and broadcasting platforms around the world. Blue Ant Media also operates free streaming and pay TV channels under several media brands internationally, including Love Nature, Cottage Life, Smithsonian Channel Canada, BBC Earth Canada, HauntTV, Homeful, Total Crime, Declassified and Love Pets. Blue Ant Media is headquartered in Toronto, with operations in Los Angeles, New York, Singapore, London, Washington and Sydney. blueantmedia.com⼁Instagram⼁LinkedIn

Our employees are passionate experts in all of our business areas. They are fanatical about creating outstanding content and experiences, and about delivering them on new and evolving platforms. We actively seek new employees who embody our core values. We want them to think big, act with purpose, celebrate creativity, do the right thing, respect one another, and succeed together. We attract creative talents who are optimistic about the evolving future of content and who take pride in recognizing opportunities where others see challenges. At Blue Ant Media, we give them the flexibility to think like entrepreneurs, take ownership of their projects, take risks, and embrace innovation in a rapidly evolving media landscape. Our team members excel at collaborating with internal and external partners by building trusting, respectful working relationships.

Master Control Operator (Contract, Part-Time)

Blue Ant Media is currently looking for a Master Control Operator. Reporting to the Manager, Broadcast Operations, this position will be responsible for data integrity and on-air quality across all brands.

Core Responsibilities & Duties

• Maintain a high level of On-Air Quality
• Continuous monitoring of audio, video, captioning, graphics, and descriptive video on both domestic and international feeds
• Troubleshoot and respond to third party clients, BDUs on outages
• Manage Automation Playlists - Import and modify traffic log content of both domestic and international feeds
• Ensure programming, promotional & commercial content are consistent with scheduling
• Downloading of commercial content as per traffic instructions
• Ingest, Marker/Trim, and general QC of content
• Perform any live system switches as required; Department On-Air Discrepancy reporting and follow-up.
• Perform Quality Control for on-air programming to ensure it is acceptable for air
• Work cross‐functionally with various departments to ensure all teams interface efficiently
• Ability to work all shifts including weekends, overnights and holidays.
• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications and Experience

• Knowledge of Broadcast Centre Signal Flow
• Must be fluent in English
• Technical or Operational knowledge of the following systems preferred, but not limited to:
• Evertz Mediator Automation
• Telestream Vantage Transcoding
• FTP, Filezilla and web portal transfers and management
• Media Proxy
• Microsoft Excel
• Google Workspace (i.e. Gmail, Google Drive, Google Sheets etc.)
• Familiarity with multiple aspect ratios, UHD technology, satellites and broadcast distribution is an asset.
• Ability to troubleshoot efficiently and meet tight deadlines
• Good communication skills and strong technical vocabulary
• Responsibility for and “ownership” of on-air look and feel through data integrity, troubleshooting and problem-solving abilities
• Self starter that demonstrates initiative and ability to work both independently and as a member of a core broadcast team.
• Post-secondary education in a television/broadcast media-related discipline is an asset

At Blue Ant Media, we believe promoting equity, diversity, and inclusion is everyone's responsibility. We can all contribute. As a global media company, we recognize our platform and opportunity to influence change and promote a more inclusive world. We know what we create, distribute, and produce is better with a diverse workforce. In recruiting for our teams, we encourage applications from individuals of all backgrounds (who are eligible to work in Canada) and welcome the unique contributions each person brings.

If you have most of the qualifications listed in our posting, but are not sure whether to proceed with your application, we still encourage you to apply. We thank all candidates for their interest in Blue Ant Media and we will reach out to those candidates that are under consideration. If you are contacted for an interview and require an accommodation at any time during the recruitment process, please email our Human Resources team at HR@blueantmedia.com.

At Blue Ant Media, we believe promoting equity, diversity, and inclusion is everyone's responsibility. We can all contribute. As a global media company, we recognize our platform and opportunity to influence change and promote a more inclusive world. We know what we create, distribute, and produce is better with a diverse workforce. In recruiting for our teams, we encourage applications from individuals of all backgrounds (who are eligible to work in Canada) and welcome the unique contributions each person brings.

If you have most of the qualifications listed in our posting, but are not sure whether to proceed with your application, we still encourage you to apply. We thank all candidates for their interest in Blue Ant Media and we will reach out to those candidates that are under consideration. If you are contacted for an interview and require an accommodation at any time during the recruitment process, please email our Human Resources team at hr@blueantmedia.com.