We always need lots of help!
NOTE: All written content submitted to our site should be ORIGINAL (nothing that is already on another page). You can use other sites for research or information, though (credited).
We have about 25 part-time volunteers, and we are ALWAYS looking for more! This is an excellent resume-builder if you are unemployed, a student, stay-at-home mom, disabled, etc.
Please note that we have NO income for this site, so we can’t afford to pay anyone. We have ads that pay for the site’s hosting and other expenses. We do usually give out Amazon gift certificates at the holidays…
No experience or particular skills are necessary for many of these jobs! We just need people with some extra time who are willing to help!!! Below is the help we need, but we are open to other content suggestions!
Why volunteer? Follow the link to learn about the benefits of volunteering in general.
Even though there is no pay for these jobs, we expect you to act professionally and take your responsibilities seriously like the rest of us do.
New Volunteers, please read our Volunteers Page!
For reference purposes, you can see a list of all of the shows we cover in depth.
We have these positions below available; click on the link to see the details of each job. Please ask if you have any questions, and any suggestions about jobs not listed here are welcome!
Just want to do something one time for our site, or try something easy? Check out our list of Quick, easy or one-time jobs!
Here are the jobs we are MOST in need of right now!
See more detailed descriptions and info below
- Short Recap Writers for Bold and Beautiful , General Hospital and/or Young and the Restless
- Update writer for Bold and Beautiful, Young and The Restless and/or General Hospital (updates are detailed recaps)
- Best Lines chooser for Bold and Beautiful and/or General Hospital
- Soap Opera Digest summarizer (Saturdays or Sundays)
- Days and GH Transcript Proofreaders (very involved-requires you watching the show a few times)
- News Manager (posting press releases and other news to our site regularly at TVMEG.NEWS
- Primetime schedule builder (daily/weekly – helping to build our weekly primetime schedule by editing and posting)
- Bold and Beautiful, Days of Our Lives or Young and The Restless transcript proofreader (a lot easier)
- Fill-in Writer for all Daytime Soap Short Recaps and Updates
- Editor to transfer content to WordPress (fairly easy and at your own time)
- Days of Our Lives article writer
(Here is a list of suggested content you can contribute as well…)
- Daily Soap Summary Writers
- Soap Opera Digest summarizer
- Transcribers
- Content Managers
- FrontPage Editors
- Newsletter Editor
- Link Checkers/Finders
- Expert Proofreaders
- Transcript Proofreaders
-
Writers – both daytime and primetime needed!
- Character Descriptions
- Trivia Quizzes
- Top Ten Lists
- Fan Fiction
- Articles/Essays
- Puzzles
- Poetry/Haiku
- Predictions/Rumors
- Best Lines or Quotes
- Episode Guides
- Primetime Reviews
- Interviews
- TV Blog
- Appearances finder
- Graphics–Slideshow Maker
- Promoter
- Search Engine Promoter
- Forum Managers
- Daytime Manager
- Primetime Manager
- News Manager
- Volunteer Manager
- Screen Capture Maker
- Primetime Schedule Builder
Daily summary writers for the daytime soaps. We often need someone new for these as people come and go quite often. Right now we need these volunteers below.
You must be a pretty good writer (good with grammar, punctuation, and with writing clearly) and able to put detail into your updates.
We just lost our GH and B&B update and recaps writer, so we need someone to take on the job for either. Even if you can do just one day per week, it would be a big help!
We need backup writers for most of our other daytime summaries (people to fill in when our volunteers can’t do it). These still have to be written well, with details, but they don’t have to be on time.
We may also sometimes need some writers for short recaps. These are just 1-2 short paragraphs that describe the main points of what happened (no details needed).
This requires someone who watches the show to write summaries for the days they choose. They will be put up at a page like this. Some good examples of the kind of summaries we need, and instructions on how to write them, are at this page. We like them fairly detailed.
NOTE: This list changes often because our volunteers come and go often. WE ARE VERY PARTICULAR about the type of writing we need so please make sure to follow the instructions! However, we are willing to work with ANYONE on improving writing skills or getting it just right to suit our needs.
Soap Opera Digest Summarizer
Weekly-we need someone who can summarize the news and spoilers parts of the magazine weekly. We would supply you with a link to our Zinio account so you can view the magazine to use it. It should be done no later than Sunday night. It’s usually available Fridays on their site.
This is not difficult to do at all as long as you’re not a bad writer. It might take a few hours if you’re a slow reader/writer. It gets faster, the longer you do it.
Transcribers
We need some interview transcribers for when we have one-on-one phone interviews with actors.Even if you can transcribe only one thing occasionally, it would be helpful!
We might also have some older daytime soaps that you can transcribe for us (mostly online, or we can send you some on DVD).
These have to be very exact. You can’t leave parts out. It would be difficult to do if you don’t have a lot of patience or don’t know proper punctuation. You have to be able to watch the show while you type, and pause the show when necessary.
NOTE: We need some people to help us specifically with our “General Hospital” weekday transcripts. We have a device that grabs the closed-captioning from the shows, but ABC has changed the way they the CC, and now we have to put in all of the characters’ names and separate each line of dialogue. It’s not quite proofreading and not quite transcribing. It requires that you watch the show while you fix it up, so you can see who’s saying what. You also have to edit out any commercial bits and put in line dividers between each scene as well as fix any other mistakes you see. Even if you can only do ONE day a week, it would be a big help!
We also have some transcripts for primetime shows like “Smallville” that are not finished; just like the GH transcripts above, you need to put in the names and listen to the dialogue from the show and fix it up on the transcript. These need to be exact. You have to have good knowledge of English grammar and punctuation as well as have a good ear and attention to detail. We may also have transcripts some for other shows like “Gotham” and “The Flash” that also need the same type of editing.
Managers of each section of our site
This requires that you have a good knowledge of TV or of a particular show we cover. For instance, you have to be a fan of The Bold & The Beautiful to manage the B&B section. You have to be a fan of Star Trek to manage the Star Trek section. Or you have to have a good knowledge of most of the soaps to manage the daytime section. And so on…It would help if you know MS Frontpage (FP) or Expression Web (EW) or are willing to learn it. Your duties would include finding more volunteers to make content, making content yourself, helping to publicize your section, making sure your section’s pages match up, putting up ads or other changes, etc. We especially need people to run each of our soap sections and our sections for current shows like Arrow, The Flash, Big Bang Theory, Law & Order, Gotham, Grey’s Anatomy, South Park, and others. Please see this list for all shows we cover. We have managers already for Days of Our Lives. We also need someone to run our sites for soap actors Cady McClain, Hunt Block, Tamara Braun, Maurice Benard, Agim Kaba and more.
Editors to edit the site using the software Microsoft Frontpage or Expression Web.
We only will take someone who we can trust and who has a lot of experience in FrontPage or Expression Web. We need people to help us update the old site and move sections over here to WordPress. We can help you learn FrontPage or Expression Web, so email us! Requirements: knowledge or interest in learning Frontpage or Expression Web, owning the software, and an aptitude in using software. Right now we mostly need people who don’t mind fixing problems or maintain sections of the site, which could involve writing or finding information.
We really need some people for this, to help us putting new content on pages, putting the existing older pages in the newer design, and building new pages. This is top priority for our site!
WordPress Editor
WordPress knowledge required, for transferring content from our old site to our new site.
We’re moving content to our new site at https://tvmeg.com Content must be updated and tranferred one page at a time.
Newsletter Editor
We have newsletters for scoops/spoilers for each of the soap operas, so the editor gathers the info from select web sites and puts it together. This must be done either Sunday night or early Monday. We need someone to do our weekly GH, and/or CBS spoilers newsletters. We also have a monthly newsletter for SciFi TV and one for jokes. No special skills needed, but you have to be reliable and able to copy/paste text.
Volunteers to find new links for all/any daytime and primetime shows and check existing ones
We have tons of links pages for many shows. Web pages come and go very quickly so we need to get rid of any dead links and surf the net looking for new sites. It’s not hard and again, we can teach you how to do this if you’re not sure how. We need LOTS of people for this! Requirements: internet connection to the web and ability to follow directions. Knowledge of shows helps! VERY EASY JOB!!!
Proofreaders to proofread parts of the site for us and soap opera summaries
You must be an excellent proofreader and have a great knowledge of grammar and spelling. It helps if you know Frontpage or HTML but it’s not required. We require that you take and pass a proofreading test that we supply. We also need proofreaders for our primetime episode guides and some fan fiction.
Proofreaders to proofread soap opera transcripts
For Bold & Beautiful, Days of Our Lives and Young & The Restless–You should be able to run the spell-check, read through to catch mistakes, and insert horizontal lines between the scenes. Very easy.
For General Hospital–We need someone who can watch the show while they read the transcript; put in the characters’ names and separate each line of dialogue as well as the above.
Writers to generally add more content to our TV show pages (either daytime or primetime) ; here is a list of our shows
We have made a good start but we need to add a lot of content to all of our television show pages. Any suggestions are welcome. Some more specific ideas are below. Requirements: knowledge of a particular daytime or primetime TV show or of shows in general. If you have one show you really like, you can be in charge of that whole section! Especially if you know WordPress, Frontpage or HTML.
Writers of Character Descriptions;
These are a description of what the character’s personality is like. Are they a good guy or a bad guy? What are their habits, who are they related to, who are their friends, and some personal history. Example here, but it doesn’t have to be that long. We currently have someone writing them for Days and Passions, but all others are available.
Writers to make trivia quizzes about each show (either daytime or primetime) ;
These are like multiple choice questions; you send in 5-10 questions, with multiple answers, and also the answer key to tell which is the right answer. It can be about the current storyline, past storylines, the characters, the actors, anything. Example here
Writers to write top ten lists for all/any daytime and primetime shows
This would be writing funny top ten lists (a la David Letterman) about any given TV show. Here are some examples for Bold and the Beautiful, As the World Turns, and Passions. We are NOT picky about the writing or humor!!! We will take them for ANY show that we already have a page for (either daytime or primetime) and will consider them for other shows that we don’t have yet. Requirements: knowledge of a particular primetime or daytime TV show or of shows in general.
Writers to write fan fiction for all/any daytime and primetime shows
Here are some examples on our site of fan fiction for One Life to Live and Y&R. We are not particular about writing style, length, subject matter (as long as it’s about a TV show…racy is okay, but no porn), which show, or how often you send in a segment. The only requirement is that it be about a TV show and that it be finished at some point. It should also be original and be written well, in story format (not all dialogue). Requirements: knowledge of a particular primetime or daytime TV show or of shows in general, writing skills.
Writers to write opinion articles or reviews (prefer funny but not necessary) for daytime and primetime shows, as well as new DVDs.
We need essays/observations/columns/articles about TV and/or TV shows. They can be funny, obnoxious, or anything you like. We are not particular. Here is an example of some General Hospital and Days of Our Lives essays on our site. Requirements: knowledge of a particular primetime or daytime TV show or of shows in general; writing skills.
Writers to make puzzles for all/any daytime and primetime shows or general TV/soap ones
We will take any kind of puzzles, word games, etc. that use TV or TV shows as the theme. It’s VERY easy to make puzzles; we will show you how if you are interested. You can download a free computer program to do most of the work or there are some sites where they can make them for you. All you have to do is come up with the clues and answers, which should be easy if you are knowledgeable about any TV show. Requirements: knowledge of a particular primetime or daytime TV show or of shows in general. Access to a PC.
Writers to write poetry or haiku about shows
We have some for OLTL, AMC, PC, and Passions, but it would be good to get more for ANY show. It’s easy and fun! Example here
Writers to help contribute to our Predictions and Rumors section for each show
This requires someone who watches the show and would like to tell us what they think will happen on the show or pass on any rumors they might hear about in mailing lists/groups/forums. Example here
Someone to find celebrity appearances
Requirements: Just time to find appearances on the net, copy them and send them in regularly. In-person appearances at book-signings, conventions, etc. as well as in movies, other TV shows or on talk shows. We know where they are and can tell you where to look. It’s not hard.
Fans to choose “Best Lines” or “Best Quotes”
Requirement: watch the show every day or week and pick out the best lines of dialogue and send them to us. For the soaps, we have daily transcripts so you can use those as references. Example here We currently need them for General Hospital and many primetime shows.
Episode Guide Writers for primetime shows We currently need them especially for “South Park”, and our newer sections for “Grey’s Anatomy”, “Flash”, and more. If you want to write them for other shows, we might accept those as well. Please see our list of primetime shows to see what we cover.
Requirement: Watch every episode of the show live or on tape/DVD and write summaries of what happened on the shows. They can be either detailed or short, as long as they are descriptive enough so that you can tell one episode from another. If you are proven to be reliable, we could rent or buy you the DVDs when needed.
Primetime Show and DVD review writer We need someone who watches new TV shows or new TV DVD’s to write short reviews for our site. We can send you new DVD’s to review for us and you can keep them when you’re done!
TV Blog Writer We have a TV Blog that we never have time to write in. It needs someone to write in it weekly/regularly about what’s going on in TV, your opinions or other things about TV. Basically, you can write anything you want, as long as it’s about TV (and not just all about the same show over and over). Plus we might ask you to also put in photos and references to some of our pages on our site, for promotional purposes.
Graphics Person to make slideshows using RealSlideshow or other programs.
We would like slideshows for all of our shows. We have some right now for General Hospital, One Life to Live, and Smallville. These are animations or videos with music.
Promoter to advertise our site on the web, in newsgroups, etc.
Right now we need someone to post on Instagram, Twitter, Pinterest, Tumblr and Facebook regularly. This would require that you know how to post on those sites as well as simple graphics creation.
We also need someone to post on message boards and newsgroups for more help. Requirements: This does not require any special knowledge or skill; we will tell you where and what to post.
Later we will need someone to post on all those places to let people know about our great site. We currently do this ourselves.
Forum Managers
We need a co-manager for our Primetime Forum Manager to help run our forum at TVMEG.NEWS. You would need to post news and press releases as well as promote the forum around the net and get conversations going. You would also need to read what anyone else posts to make sure there is no spam or fights.
We also need a manager for our ABC Soaps Forum at http://forums.delphiforums.com/ghbella Same basic description as above except it’s only about General Hospital, All My Children and One Life to Live, not the rest of TV. (Mostly it’s about GH since the others have been canceled)
We also need a manager for our CBS Soaps Forum http://forums.delphiforums.com/Oakdale2000 Same basic description as above except it’s only about The Bold & The Beautiful and The Young & The Restless (knowledge of past CBS soaps is helpful, too, but not required).
Daytime Manager
This person would be in charge of our entire daytime section, posting info when it is sent to him/her from other volunteers, finding news and spoilers to keep current pages updated, etc. Requirements: Knowledge of WordPress/Microsoft Frontpage or Expression Web, and at least a few free hours per week. Ability to follow instructions and fairly good writing skills.
Primetime Manager
This person would be in charge of our entire primetime section, posting info when it is sent to him/her from other volunteers, finding news and spoilers to keep current pages updated, etc. Requirements: Knowledge of WordPress/Microsoft FrontPage or Expression Web, and at least a few free hours per week. Ability to follow instructions and fairly good writing skills.
News Manager
We need someone to post some news items sent to us by various networks and their publicists, such as USA Network, Discovery, History, MTV, HBO, TVLand, FOX etc. The items are posted on our news page and some of our other news and spoilers pages. WordPress and/or FrontPage/Expression Web knowledge required.
Volunteer Manager
We need a new person to do some administrative chores to help us keep more organized about our volunteers. We have 25-50 volunteers at any given time, and people come and go often, so we need someone to help keep track of people in our spread sheet. We also need this person to keep track of the work people do, remind them to do the work and to go to our Volunteer Forum, add to and remove them from the forum, send them Birthday e-cards, etc. Requirements: Ownership of and Knowledge of Excel is helpful. You must be a detailed, organized person with fairly good social skills online, since you will be contacting our volunteers via email quite often.
Volunteer to make pictures for our site (screen captures)
We need some more pictures for our site all of the time. We do not want someone else’s pictures (unless they are your own that you took at a fan encounter or from the set of a show) or pictures scanned in from magazines because they are copyrighted. You can make the caps from the shows online very easily (we can tell you how) or by using a Snappy or ATI device.
Interviewer
We need someone with TV contacts to do interviews with TV actors. You must have some experience or be able to figure out how to get interviews with them via their publicists or agents.
You must be able to either take shorthand or record the phone interview so you can then write it up as an interview or transcript. This requires some skills for writing and interviewing. You should have a good phone voice and be clear and professional on the phone. You should be able to come up with 10-15 minutes of questions if necessary, even if it’s someone you don’t know or for a show you have never seen (i.e. do research online). We can help you out with suggestions, but you must do the bulk of the work. We need reliable people who will do this regularly.
Daytime Soap screencap maker
We need someone to make 4-6 screencaps for the soaps Monday through Friday, so we can put them in our Updates. This is very easy. You must live in the US so you can see the soaps online. Helpful if you know how to work with graphics, but it’s not required. We just recently lost our regular volunteer who did this for us for years.
Primetime News and Schedule maker
We need someone to help build our weekly schedule of shows. The ideal candidate would work on it daily, but we’ll take however many hours per week you can handle. It requires that you gather press releases (or get them from our news page), edit them into small blurbs, add some information such as network and date, organize them in a certain way and find promos for each if you have time.
Contact us if you are interested! Only dependable people who are serious about helping us and can donate at least a few hours a week should contact us. Thanks!
Back to The About Page
We have some new volunteers, too, which is always exciting. We lost Ellen, who was helping to write the Y&R Updates, so Christine has been writing all five days. Christine is a fabulous writer, but I don’t think she really wants to do them daily, so we’re looking for someone else to help her out. I might have someone, but it might be a while before she can start… in the meantime, Eva has been writing the Y&R short recaps all five days. We may have someone to help her out, too, a great new write named Cherie who will be writing Monday’s Y&R recaps one day ahead, and also stepping in to write for Eva while she goes on vacation in December. Please visit our Volunteer Jobs page if you would like to help out writing Y&R Updates or anything else! We have many jobs available.
covers all of the broadcast shows and when they premiere. I also made the cable listings which tells when all of those shows are returning to premiering. I haven’t had time to update that much, though. Still, it might be useful, so I hope you can check it out!
were much better together, and they broke them up too quickly for no good reason. Now that Katie won her court case, we rarely see her and Thorne any more, unless it’s connected to Ridge and Bill. I notice that we don’t see too much of the interns Emma, Xander and Zoe any more. Good. I guess I’m not the only ones who didn’t like them or their bland story.
and I never saw the other show. I did see and love “Stargate Universe,” which to me was very similar to “Star Trek: Deep Space 9.” Anyway, they’ve been showing them from the beginning, so I’m getting to see them, and I really love them.
swing, I have a lot of shows to catch up on already.
There are many reboots this season, but so far, the only one I’m enjoying it “Will & Grace” on NBC. I saw the first episode of “The Conners,” and I thought it was very depressing, and not very good. To be fair, I didn’t much like last year’s “Roseanne” reboot, either. I do watch “Murphy Brown,” but it’s not that great. It’s just too heavy-handed and not that funny. I loved the old show, but it’s not the 1980’s anymore. They need to be quicker, wittier. I don’t know. I’m still watching it, but it’s very uneven. I saw the first episode of “Magnum PI” and it was boring. So was the new “Charmed.” So, kudos to “Will & Grace” for not only coming back as great as before, but even better.
I just don’t have time to add them to my list of shows to watch. I haven’t even had time yet to watch the latest season of “Daredevil” on Netflix. As always, I’ve got a whole stack of DVD’s to watch and review, as well as a whole list of shows I should be checking out. It never ends. It’s gotten a lot worse with Netflix, HULU, Amazon and so many other new streaming services coming out.
the CW drama “All-American,” which was kind of dull.
Murder” on ABC. We still watch “Family Guy” on FOX, too, but we stopped watching “South Park” because it’s just not funny any more.
I love the old Charlie Brown special from when we were kids! I love Halloween, but I don’t like being grossed out or scared too much. A little scary is OK, though.
