Catherine Powell
Decatur,GA
Summary
My background is in television. The skills I earned during that time will transfer seamlessly to other jobs such as data entry, customer service, digital research detective, digitization, writing summaries of footage, articles, books, scripts; I am quick to learn SOP’s for all jobs.
Overview
28
28
years of professional experience
Work History
Master Control Operator
Gray Media/CBS Affiliate
03.2024 - 02.2025
- Successfully maintained station’s stream on-air as part of the Master Control client-driven team by: Ensuring the placement and length of local breaks, resolving oversold breaks, and adding promotion time when undersold
- Confirming programming by verifying the source and format, corroborating titles and programming grid match, and ensuring the show start-time is correct
- Successfully responded to hard-start placements requested by the station while fulfilling allotted commercial time and solving on-air problems quickly and accurately
Library Digital Preservation Editor
CNN
08.2012 - 10.2023
- 20 beta video tapes were digitized daily for preservation, restoration, and conservation work.
- Confirmed digitized tapes met CNN broadcast standards. successfully digitized and archived CNN field video
- Identified metadata and confirmed accuracy, if need be updated wrong information.
- Performed quality control through the evaluation and verification of digital files, ensuring the best possible transfer to the digital Archive.
Master Control Operator
Georgia Public Broadcasting
07.2010 - 08.2012
- Monitored three channels
- Fixed all air problems, including the station going to black
- Previewed all promos and programming 8 hours ahead of schedule
- Transferred all promos and programming to digital database
Operations Manager
Turner Classic Movies
05.2001 - 02.2009
- Scheduled all production sessions and ensured all projects met target due dates
- Created a successful cross promotion plan for special stunts such as 31 Days of Oscars to air on all sister networks
- Distributed the updated the On Air Promotion grid to network partners such traffic
- Member of a network-specific database development; the goal was to improve the efficacy of each department’s projects and oversaw a successful network roll out
- Handled the On-Air Promotion $500,000 budget, including the monthly forecast, the yearend budget, funding projects, and other department expenditures such as travel, conventions, retreats and network related shoots
Traffic Log Coordinator
Cartoon Network/Boomerang Network
06.1997 - 05.2001
- Scheduled programs and promos for Cartoon Network and Boomerang Network
- Due to my performance with Cartoon, I was promoted to team lead for the new Boomerang Network
- As the team lead for Boomerang, I entered the data needed for the network launch, trained the new hire on scheduling an on-air log, served as the Boomerang network liaison, made sure all requests from the network were handled.
- Assigned 10 house numbers weekly for both Cartoon and Boomerang for all promos, built them using the new ISCI code database.
- Ran a weekly report on the overall number of viewers for 6 shows all of whom were assigned a unique promo campaign for that show franchise only.
- Used BIAS Dos, BIAS Windows, CROSSROADS (an internal traffic system created by Turner Broadcasting)
Education
Bachelor of Science – BS - History
Shorter College
Rome, GA05.1986
Skills
- Budget Skills
- Teamwork
- Troubleshooting Abilities
- Decision Making
- Effective Communication
- Deadline Management
- Written and verbal communication
- Satellite communications
- Quality control
- Video editing
Timeline
Master Control Operator
Gray Media/CBS Affiliate
03.2024 - 02.2025
Library Digital Preservation Editor
CNN
08.2012 - 10.2023
Master Control Operator
Georgia Public Broadcasting
07.2010 - 08.2012
Operations Manager
Turner Classic Movies
05.2001 - 02.2009
Traffic Log Coordinator
Cartoon Network/Boomerang Network
06.1997 - 05.2001
Bachelor of Science – BS - History
Shorter College
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