Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Timeline
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Eric Graver

Rockford,IL

Overview

3
3
years of professional experience

Work History

Sports Director

WIFR-TV
Rockford , IL
04.2024 - Current

Sports Director

WREX-TV
Rockford, IL
05.2022 - 04.2024
  • Produced and anchored nightly sports segments on evening newscasts
  • Live reported, shot and edited sports packages and highlights
  • Coordinated coverage for high school football and basketball shows
  • Produced and live anchored multiple 30-minute Sunday Night Football broadcasts for Packers and Bears games
  • Produced and anchored an NFL Draft show
  • Established and grew a list of contacts in the market for future stories

Multimedia Journalist and Sports Anchor

KOMU-TV (NBC AFFILIATE)
Columbia, MO
05.2021 - 04.2022

MMJ:

  • Pitched, interviewed, shot and edited news stories
  • Set up and performed live shots and standups
  • Wrote, edited and posted web content to CMS
  • Turned VOSOTs and PKGs for newscasts

Sports Anchor:

  • Anchored and produced nightly sportscast
  • Produced video with full scripts, teases and headlines
  • Managed sports department team

Education

Bachelor of Journalism - Sports Broadcasting

University of Missouri - Columbia
Columbia, MO
12.2021

Associate of Arts -

Waubonsee Community College
Sugar Grove, IL
05.2018

Skills

  • Adobe Premiere Pro, Audition
  • Edius
  • Avid Media Composer
  • BitCentral
  • ENPS
  • iNews
  • Blox CMS
  • Field 59
  • Arc

Timeline

Sports Director

WIFR-TV
04.2024 - Current

Sports Director

WREX-TV
05.2022 - 04.2024

Multimedia Journalist and Sports Anchor

KOMU-TV (NBC AFFILIATE)
05.2021 - 04.2022

Bachelor of Journalism - Sports Broadcasting

University of Missouri - Columbia

Associate of Arts -

Waubonsee Community College
Eric Graver