Production Associate - Production Associate Golf Channel Employee Review

4.0
Jul 23, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

If you like golf, this is the place for you. Working at Golf Channel gives you the opportunity to interact with the highest caliber of people in the golf industry. You also develop a valuable relationship with NBC and Comcast in case you're interested in moving to another sector of the company. People are nice and always willing to help. The business seems to be much more stable than print counterparts such as Golf.com, Golfweek, Golf Digest, etc.

Cons

Horrible pay for PA's, hard to get a promotion or move up- kind of a waiting game until someone leaves (which can take 4+ years). Some PA's travel a lot for field production work, others never travel which can lower moral. Hours can vary widely depending on the show you're working on which means developing life and relationships outside of work can be difficult based on your work schedule. You have to live in Orlando and work in the middle of tourist central.

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5.0
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Pros

Great place to work, people really cared about you growing in your role.

Cons

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3.0
Aug 27, 2021
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Pros

Stellar tech side. Thoroughly dedicated and able studio ops and adjacent departments made sure that each show was speedy, stable and brought to air without apparent cracks or glitches. More than an expected feat in GCs case because:

Cons

the newsroom was a fraternal fiasco non-stop, wall-to-wall. Predictably, favoritism was a problem but only a side-effect of this department's spastic parade of failure. Old guard made the final year of pandemic broadcast much more difficult than it needed to be due to nagging facile attempts to reseat themselves on-site as Roastmasters of the Control Room. Before then, it was the typical local drama but cranked up to 11: stories of marital infidelity, hostile ostracization and cronyism were the norm in the House That Molly Built. All this speaks to the incredible efforts the production side made in making this clown house look way better than it deserved, and to the fallibility of an organization that would bring the problem element up to Olympics and leave the stable element behind. Tread lightly.

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