Summer 2025 Broadcaster

The Tri-City Chili Peppers are looking for qualified Broadcast Interns for their 2024 Summer Baseball Season.

The Chili Peppers are the HOTTEST team in the Coastal Plain League, a summer wood-bat baseball league with teams in Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia. As the innovators of Cosmic Baseball, our team plays from May through early August with over 35+ home games at Shepherd Stadium in Colonial Heights, VA. We employ a small full-time staff so part-time seasonal employees and interns will perform integral duties and gain valuable professional experience and knowledge.

The broadcast team plays an integral part in not only covering the Chili Peppers home and away games, but also telling the story of the Chili Peppers players and organization. Home games are broadcast on FloSports and away games are broadcast via radio only through Mixlr.

We have 2 broadcast positions for the summer and seek talented individuals who can tell an exciting and informed story about the Chili Peppers experience while capturing the human element of the game. Broadcasters need to be able to capture the attention of our audience through their voice and style of calling each game. Broadcasters will also be asked to write post game wrap up articles to be posted on the Chili Peppers website.

Interested candidates should include a link to their broadcast reels in their portfolio or as a part of their cover letter and/or resume.

The position starts the week of May 12th and will end by August 12th. These dates include pre-season games, travel to a game as a part of our Cosmic Takeover Tour, the regular season and playoffs.

General Responsibilities:

• Assist with set up and take down of broadcasting and streaming equipment.
• Assist with coordination of pre and post game filming
• Travel to away games
• Teach other interns that want to learn about and experience broadcasting
• Research coaches and players in order to be ready to tell their stories
• Assist with stadium preparation and clean up for each game, before the season and after the season.

Requirements:
• Basic understanding of production and media is preferred.
• Possess strong written and oral communication skills.
• Self-motivated individual with the ability to multi-task.
• Must be self-driven and highly motivated.

This is an unpaid/college credit internship eligible position. The goal for those who accept this position is to give them real-world learning experiences and allow them an educational environment where they will learn and hone their skills within a workforce.

We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, disability, gender identity, marital or veteran status, or any other protected class.

Job Questions:

1. Are you seeking this position for general experience or college credit? Please specific which one in your response.
2. If applying for college credit, how many hours will you need to fulfill your credit? Put NA if not completing for credit.
3. Will you require assistance with finding housing?
4. If you need housing, the Chili Peppers have a large multi-bedroom and bathroom house in which 15 interns can live in exchange for paying $2500 in rent for the summer. Utilities are included. The house, including the bedrooms, comes furnished. The full rent amount is due before move-in. Would you be interested in living in our intern house? A housing contract will need to be completed in order to secure a bed space. Put NA if you do not need housing.

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