Students in the Action News newsroom
WPVI-TV
at the Broadcast Pioneers Symposium
Saturday, October 26, 2013
This is the event that college students wait for all year! Once again, it's time for our annual Broadcast Pioneers Symposium. Area college students will see first hand a major market television station and will listen to advice from their staff. This year, our 13th annual event will again be held at the studios of WCAU-TV, NBC 10. The date is Saturday morning, November 1, 2014 from 9 am to 12 noon. We start off with eats and soft drinks and end with a pizza lunch and more sodas.
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Our MC for the event will be Jerry Klein, former newsman for WCAU Radio and KYW Newsradio, currently executive vice-president of Anne Klein Communications Group and our Chairman of the Board. Introductory remarks by our CEO Gerry Wilkinson, former Operations Manager for WDAS Radio and formerly a television producer for WHYY-TV. Pat Delsi, a former president and chairman of this organization will be on the panel. He was the owner of WSSJ Radio in Camden. He worked for six decades in the Philadelphia market as an announcer, newscaster, disc jockey and more. We are still putting together the rest of our panel which will come from NBC 10. However, below is a link so you can see who has been on previous panels, just to give you an idea what to expect.
There's a tour of the WCAU-TV, NBC 10 facilities. For as long as time permits, get your photo taken sitting on their news set. There's a pizza lunch afterwards for you to speak one on one with our panel and Broadcast Pioneers officers.
At our first symposium, a student asked us how to get an internship. We told her and she got one at an area television station. After the internship was over, they hired her part-time and then, they gave her a full-time position as a producer. We hear stories like this all the time.
Pat Delsi, our former president and former chairman of the board, mentioned that he was outside the Geator Gold studios at 7th and Market in Center City Philadelphia when a young man came up to him and asked if he happened to be Pat Delsi. Pat said, "Yes!" The young man mentioned the he attended one of our symposiums because he was having trouble getting an internship. He said with what he learned at the symposium, he was able to line up an internship with an area television station.
A young man was interested in working in newsradio. He attended one of our symposiums, got put in touch with the right people and got an internship and later a part-time job. He is now a full-time news anchor for the station. By the way, he was also one of our scholarship winners. Details on our scholarships will be announced at the symposium. Earlier this year, we awarded seventeen $1,000 scholarships. You could be next.
Matt DeLucia who is a street reporter for NBC 10 attended our symposiums when he was a student at LaSalle University. He had to leave the market to get experience and now is working in his hometown. He is a member of the Broadcast Pioneers.
This is what can happen when students attend our symposiums. Broadcast Pioneers of Philadelphia; Innovators in Philly Broadcasting.
YOU WILL BE MEETING ALOT OF IMPORTANT PEOPLE! SO DRESS TO IMPRESS! Dress is business casual. If in doubt, look at our photos of past events. It is important to arrive on-time or even early. Parking in the WCAU-TV lot is permitted, as long as there is space. Try to carpool. There is parking near the station also..
The facilities of WCAU-TV, NBC 10 are at City Avenue and Monument Road in Philadelphia. That's across the street from WPVI. WCAU Entrance is on Monument Road in Bala Cynwyd. Public transportation stops nearby. We will issue badges at the door. They must be worn at all times as this will serve as your WCAU-TV temporary ID badge.
IMPORTANT! Since each symposium is different, you should still plan to attend even if you attended previous ones. Since each year, we rotate the station, it takes three different symposiums to see three different stations and network with different people. Even if you attended the last symposium that was held at WCAU-TV (that would be 2011), each one is enough different to warrent your attendance. You only need one contact from your networking to help you get that all important first job.
The Broadcast Pioneers of Philadelphia
Post Office Box 2886
Bala Cynwyd, PA 19004
(856) 365-5600
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