Matt G.
About me
| Matt G. | |
| Electronics | |
| Electronic Engineering with Music Technology Systems | |
| Undergraduate | |
| Alcuin | |
| 2008 | |
| United Kingdom |
My employment
| Broadcast Engineer | |
| Global | |
| United Kingdom | |
| Broadcasting | |
| Large business (250+ employees) | |
| 2009 |
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A day in the life of a Broadcast Engineer in the United Kingdom
My career history
I started off as a broadcast engineer for North Wales, and after three years I applied for a role that appeared in London in our company.
What has helped my career to progress
Being inquisitive and actively willing to lend a hand and learn new things.
My advice about working in my industry
Be friendly. Radio's quite a small industry and everyone knows everyone.
What I do
I'm based in our Leicester Square broadcast centre as part of a team covering all of Global's radio and TV brands including: Classic FM, Capital, Heart, Smooth, LBC, Radio X, and Gold.
As part of the broadcast engineering team, we:
Have around 45 studios which we plan, install and maintain.
Support and train users on radio and TV broadcast tech in person and on call 24/7/365.
Regularly plan and do outside broadcasts both in the UK and abroad.
Skills I use and how I developed them
Being involved with University Radio York and York Student Television, both of which gave me a great insight to the media industry, and use more knowledge from there day-to-day than from my course.
The most valuable being teamwork / communicating with people from different backgrounds, and the experience of having to fix something urgently, creatively and on a budget.
What I like most
It's fun and exciting: there's something new every day. Everyone in radio is passionate about what they do.
What I like least
I work shifts, and although I prefer the variation that gives me in what I do day-to-day, my life outside of work kind of has to be scheduled around it.
What surprised me most
How friendly everyone is
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