Gabriela is an Associate Director at Fox Sports. Located in Los Angeles, CA, Gabriela and her team are behind the scenes coordinating commercials with live sports productions. From counting in talent on set to communicating with Mexico about lead-ins to a soccer match, Gabriela is working in a fast-paced role.
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>> My name is Gabriella De La Cruz, I am an associate director for FOX Sports. All this is broadcast, it's-- I coordinate commercials, live commercials with live production. I'm the one that counts them into their breaks or out of their breaks, I should say. And I also coordinate different live productions to run simultaneously one time after the other. I do a lot of inventory for the commercial breaks. I make sure that promotions are airing or that if I have to cut them that I cut them. I also maintain programming. I make sure that programming runs on time. Things like that. Of that nature. Well a busy day would be like, we've got back-to-back live events. Usually, I do some studio shows, I tend to do a couple of studio shows, that air actually from Mexico, and we receive them here to broadcast them into our FOX Deportes audience. And so what I do is I coordinate with them, with the people in Mexico, and make sure their show airs immediately after their show. I tend to, depending on what the programming for that day is, I'll have usually a UEFA Champions League match that I have to air as well, so that airs immediately after one of the studio shows from Mexico. Once the game finishes, I'm airing something else, maybe like a UFC 200 fight, going back into another studio show from Mexico, going into an MLF game. So, it's really just coordinating a bunch of different people and figuring it all out as it goes along.
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