Live Sports Production Director

Live Sports Production Director Internship

Casper Spuds Baseball | Casper, Wyoming
Summer 2027 Internship | Live Sports Production · Broadcast Directing · Sports Broadcasting · Play-by-Play · Digital Media

About the Casper Spuds

Thank you for your interest in joining the Casper Spuds Baseball organization!

The Casper Spuds are a minor league-style collegiate summer baseball organization based in Casper, Wyoming. We combine competitive collegiate baseball with the entertainment, promotions, community engagement, and fan experience of minor league baseball.

Our goal is to provide interns with meaningful, hands-on experience that prepares them to compete for future opportunities in collegiate and professional sports. Spuds interns aren't simply observing from the sidelines—they become an important part of our organization and help bring the Spuds experience to life throughout the season.

We are happy to work with students who wish to fulfill requirements for college internship credit when applicable. We are looking for motivated individuals who are ready to take initiative, develop their skills, contribute creatively, and become part of the Spuds team.

Position Overview

The Casper Spuds are seeking a confident, technically minded, and motivated Live Sports Production Director Intern to help lead the team's live game productions during the 2027 summer baseball season.

This is a leadership-focused sports media internship designed for a student who already has some experience or strong foundational knowledge in broadcasting, live video production, sports media, or a related area and is ready to take on greater responsibility within a live production environment.

The Live Sports Production Director Intern will serve as the student production lead for Casper Spuds live game broadcasts, helping coordinate the people, technology, content, and timing required to bring Spuds Baseball to viewers watching online.

The Production Director will help oversee the overall flow of each broadcast, including camera assignments, camera direction, video switching, broadcast audio, graphics, replay, commercials, sponsor elements, announcer coordination, and livestream quality.

This position is not simply about operating equipment.

It's about seeing the entire production at once.

The Production Director needs to know what is happening on the field, what viewers are currently seeing, what camera should be ready next, when a graphic or replay is needed, when a sponsor element must run, what the announcers need to know, and what to do when something doesn't go according to plan.

In addition to directing the live production, the Production Director Intern may have opportunities to step behind the microphone and serve as a play-by-play broadcaster or color commentator during selected Spuds games.

This combination gives the intern an opportunity to develop experience on both sides of the broadcast—leading the production behind the scenes and communicating the game to viewers on the air.

This is not a sit-on-the-sidelines summer internship! You'll help call the shots, coordinate a live sports production crew, solve problems in real time, and potentially call the action from behind the microphone.

Key Responsibilities

Live Sports Production

Live Broadcast Direction: Help direct live Casper Spuds game broadcasts, making real-time decisions regarding cameras, graphics, replay, audio, commercial elements, and overall presentation.

Production Leadership: Serve as the student production lead during broadcasts, helping coordinate fellow interns and production personnel under the supervision of Spuds leadership.

Camera Direction: Communicate with camera operators regarding shot selection, framing, positioning, upcoming action, crowd shots, promotional activities, and other production needs.

Camera Assignments: Help establish camera positions and responsibilities prior to each broadcast and ensure operators understand expectations and production needs.

Technical Direction: Operate or assist with video switching and other technical production functions as needed.

Broadcast Audio: Monitor and coordinate appropriate broadcast audio, including announcer microphones, field or ambient audio, prerecorded content, and other audio sources.

Graphics Coordination: Coordinate the appropriate use of score graphics, player information, statistics, lower thirds, sponsor graphics, promotional elements, and other on-screen information.

Replay Coordination: Help identify important plays and moments for replay and coordinate their use within the live broadcast when available.

Commercial Integration: Ensure appropriate commercials, prerecorded features, sponsor messages, and promotional videos are incorporated into the broadcast at scheduled opportunities.

Livestream Management: Assist with starting, monitoring, maintaining, and concluding live game streams on the team's designated digital platforms.

Broadcast Quality Control: Continuously monitor the live production for video, audio, graphics, timing, technical, or presentation issues and respond appropriately.

Production Crew Coordination

Production Preparation: Help establish production plans prior to games, including camera assignments, equipment needs, broadcast elements, sponsor obligations, and anticipated special features.

Crew Communication: Communicate clearly with camera operators, broadcasters, graphics/replay personnel, videographers, and other production team members throughout each broadcast.

Production Meetings: Participate in or help lead brief pregame production meetings to review responsibilities, special events, sponsor elements, promotions, and other game-specific considerations.

Broadcast Cues: Provide clear cues for cameras, announcers, graphics, replay, commercials, prerecorded content, and other production elements.

Problem-Solving: Identify and troubleshoot technical or production issues in real time while maintaining the continuity of the broadcast.

Postgame Review: Participate in brief postgame evaluations to identify what worked well and what can be improved during future productions.

Production Standards: Help establish consistency in camera work, graphics, audio, broadcast timing, and overall presentation throughout the season.

Play-by-Play & Color Commentary

The Live Sports Production Director Intern may also have opportunities to serve as a play-by-play broadcaster and/or color commentator during selected Casper Spuds games.

When serving in an on-air role, responsibilities may include:

Play-by-Play: Accurately describe live game action while maintaining an engaging and conversational broadcast.

Color Commentary: Provide analysis, context, baseball knowledge, statistics, player information, and additional insight alongside the play-by-play broadcaster.

Broadcast Research: Research Spuds players, visiting teams, statistics, standings, recent performances, and relevant storylines prior to broadcasts.

Baseball Storytelling: Incorporate player backgrounds, team storylines, statistics, and other information that adds context and personality to the broadcast.

Sponsor Reads: Professionally incorporate required sponsor messages, advertisements, promotional information, and partnership elements.

Player & Coach Interviews: Participate in appropriate pregame, postgame, or feature interviews with players, coaches, and other guests.

Pregame & Postgame Content: Participate in pregame, postgame, or other broadcast segments as appropriate.

On-Camera Content: Participate in appropriate introductions, interviews, features, promotional videos, and other Spuds media content.

The Production Director's primary responsibility remains the overall success of the live production. On-air opportunities will be assigned based on production needs, staffing, and the intern's interests and abilities.

Working with the Spuds Broadcast Team

The Live Sports Production Director Intern will help bring together multiple areas of the Spuds sports media operation.

The Production Director may help coordinate and collaborate with:

• Play-by-Play & Sports Broadcasting Interns
• Live sports camera/video production personnel
• Broadcast graphics and replay personnel
• Sports Videography & Digital Content Production Interns
• Game-Day Audio & Entertainment personnel
• Marketing and social media personnel
• PA and game-day entertainment personnel
• Spuds leadership
• Other staff and interns involved with game-day production

The Production Director Intern will not serve as the administrative supervisor of fellow interns.

Instead, this position serves as the student production lead during live broadcasts, providing production direction and helping coordinate the crew under the supervision of Spuds leadership.

This distinction allows the intern to develop meaningful leadership, communication, delegation, and production-management experience without placing formal personnel-management responsibilities on a student intern.

Additional Production Responsibilities

Broadcast Setup: Help coordinate the setup and testing of cameras, computers, microphones, audio equipment, cables, production systems, and other equipment prior to games.

Equipment Breakdown: Assist with the appropriate breakdown, organization, and storage of production equipment following games and events.

Equipment Management: Help maintain an organized production environment and ensure equipment is handled appropriately.

Technical Troubleshooting: Identify basic equipment, software, streaming, audio, video, or connectivity problems and work with appropriate personnel to resolve issues.

Broadcast Content: Collaborate with media personnel to incorporate player information, statistics, interviews, commercials, promotional videos, features, and other content into live productions.

Sponsor Integration: Ensure required sponsor recognition and partnership elements are appropriately incorporated into broadcasts.

Special Events: Coordinate broadcast coverage of ceremonial first pitches, National Anthem performances, between-inning promotions, special guests, sponsor activations, and other game-day events when appropriate.

Digital Content Collaboration: Work with the Sports Videography & Digital Content Production Intern to incorporate prerecorded features, interviews, commercials, highlights, and other produced content into live broadcasts.

Game-Day Operations: Collaborate with Spuds staff and fellow interns to support game-day activities, promotions, special events, and the overall fan experience.

Team Operations: Summer baseball is a team effort. Interns may assist with additional team and organizational responsibilities as needed to help provide a positive, safe, and memorable experience for Spuds fans.

What You'll Learn

This internship is designed to provide advanced hands-on experience for students interested in careers in live sports production, broadcasting, television production, digital media, or professional sports.

Throughout the summer, interns will have opportunities to develop skills in:

• Live sports production directing
• Multi-camera live video production
• Production crew coordination
• Camera direction and shot selection
• Technical directing and video switching
• Broadcast audio
• Broadcast graphics
• Replay coordination
• Livestream production
• Broadcast quality control
• Sports broadcast preparation
• Commercial and sponsor integration
• Live production troubleshooting
• Production planning and workflow
• Sports broadcasting
• Play-by-play announcing
• Color commentary
• Baseball research and statistics
• Sports storytelling
• Player and coach interviews
• On-camera presentation
• Broadcast leadership and communication
• Decision-making in a live production environment
• Professional communication and collaboration

Most importantly, the Production Director Intern will gain experience leading real live sports productions, rather than simply observing how they are done.

The intern will also have opportunities to build a professional demo reel and portfolio containing live production, directing, broadcasting, play-by-play, color commentary, and other sports media work.

Qualifications

Because this is a production leadership position, the ideal candidate will have:

• Current enrollment in or recent completion of a college program in Broadcasting, Sports Media, Communications, Digital Media, Video Production, Film, Journalism, or a related field.
• Previous experience or coursework involving live video production, broadcasting, sports media, streaming, television production, or similar environments.
• Strong interest in sports broadcasting and live production.
• Basic understanding of multi-camera production and live broadcast workflows.
• Familiarity with cameras, audio equipment, streaming technology, or production software.
• Strong communication skills and the confidence to provide clear direction during a live production.
• Ability to make decisions quickly in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to manage multiple production elements simultaneously.
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Basic understanding of baseball rules, terminology, and game flow.
• Ability to remain calm and solution-focused when technical or production problems occur.
• Ability to communicate effectively with fellow interns, broadcasters, camera operators, staff, and team leadership.
• A positive, energetic, and professional attitude.
• Willingness to take initiative, accept feedback, and help fellow interns develop their production skills.
• Ability to work a flexible schedule, including evenings, weekends, holidays, and game days.
• Interest in pursuing a career in sports production, broadcasting, sports media, television, digital production, or professional sports.

Previous experience directing a live production is preferred but not required.

Previous play-by-play, color commentary, podcasting, sports announcing, or on-camera experience is also welcomed but not required.

Applicants with examples of previous live production, broadcasting, directing, play-by-play, video production, streaming, or other sports media work are strongly encouraged to include those materials with their application.

Internship Duration & Benefits

Internship Dates: Mid-May through the second week of August 2027

Location: Casper, Wyoming

Position Type: In-person summer internship

Summer Stipend Offered

Housing Provided during the internship.

Game Day Meal Provided

Additional benefits include:

• Extensive hands-on experience leading live sports productions
• Opportunities to serve as the student production lead for Spuds Baseball broadcasts
• Experience directing a multi-camera sports production
• Hands-on experience with live video switching, cameras, graphics, audio, replay, and streaming
• Opportunities to serve as a play-by-play broadcaster or color commentator
• Experience coordinating broadcasters and production personnel
• Opportunities to develop leadership and crew-coordination skills
• Experience incorporating commercials, sponsor elements, graphics, and prerecorded content into live broadcasts
• Opportunities to conduct player and coach interviews
• Exposure to sports videography, digital content, marketing, sponsorship activation, game-day entertainment, and baseball operations
• Opportunities to collaborate directly with team leadership, players, coaches, sponsors, and community partners
• Opportunities to build a professional sports production and broadcasting demo reel
• Professional networking opportunities within the sports industry
• Résumé-building experience and professional references based on performance
• College internship credit may be available in coordination with the student's college or university

Why Intern with the Casper Spuds?

During a live baseball broadcast, dozens of decisions happen every minute.

Which camera has the best shot?

Is another camera ready for the next pitch?

Should we show the replay?

Is the score graphic correct?

Is the announcer's microphone working?

Do we have a sponsor read coming up?

Is the commercial ready?

What's happening between innings?

And what happens when something goes wrong?

Someone has to see the entire picture.

As the Live Sports Production Director Intern, that person will often be you.

You'll have the opportunity to move beyond simply operating one camera or completing one production task and begin learning how to lead the entire live sports production.

You'll call shots, coordinate people, make decisions, troubleshoot problems, and help determine what viewers see and hear.

And on selected games, you may trade the production headset for a broadcast microphone and experience the game from another perspective—as a play-by-play broadcaster or color commentator.

That combination provides a unique opportunity to understand sports broadcasting from both sides of the production.

Whether your goal is to become a sports producer, broadcast director, technical director, play-by-play broadcaster, sports commentator, or sports media professional, you'll spend the summer developing skills through real games, real broadcasts, and real decisions.

Application Process

We are looking for applicants who are ready to call the shots, lead the production, solve problems, and bring Spuds Baseball to the screen.

Applicants should submit a résumé along with any available examples of previous live production, broadcasting, play-by-play, color commentary, video production, streaming, student media, or other relevant work.

A professional demo reel is not required. Class projects, student broadcasts, high school or college athletics productions, podcasts, personal projects, livestreams, and other examples of production or broadcasting experience are welcome.

Applicants interested in the on-air portion of the position are encouraged to include a short example of previous play-by-play, commentary, podcasting, interviewing, or other speaking work if available.

We look forward to reviewing your application and introducing you to Spuds Baseball in Casper, Wyoming!

Call the shots. Lead the crew. Tell the story. Bring Spuds Baseball to the screen.

The Casper Spuds are an equal opportunity employer. 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 status protected by applicable law.