Katie is a Senior Account Executive with WPMT Fox 43, the Fox television affiliate based out of York, PA. Her main job is to sell air time to local or national companies looking to advertise during Fox’s scheduled programs.
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>> My name is Katie Breit. I work at Fox 43 and I'm a senior account executive. A senior account executive sells air time, air time meaning the programming on the station gets negotiated to a local company or a national company that wants to advertise during that program. A day as a senior account executive is very busy. We start a lot with watching television. We're monitoring a lot of other news stations, looking to see who's advertising, going on local appointments. We're making a lot of cold calls. We're running appointments with, you know, TV local clients but also selling digital advertising. So we do a lot of entertaining with our clients, you know, taking them to lunches and dinners, and golf outings and Eagles games and things like that. So the job is not 9 to 5. The job is when it needs to be there. So, we work a lot of, you know, extra hours and where the demand is.
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