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DIGITAL ARCHIVAL PROJECT NEWS:
VIDEO:
(Left to right) CEO Gerry Wilkinson accepts a check from member Harry Hurley
($1,000 for a scholarship in 2019 and $1,000 for our Archival Project)
Broadcast Pioneers Luncheon
Bala Golf Club, Philadelphia
Wednesday, April 18, 2018
(Photo by member Mel Klawansky)
Our MC for the afternoon was member Harry Hurley. Harry is a nationally recognized talk show host based here in our area. Harry's charitable work with his annual golf tournament underwrites one of our scholarships each year. Hurley has been described as the Rush Limbaugh of the Jersey Shore.
Our speakers were all members of Broadcast Pioneers, and they were (in alphabetical order):
Ryan Fleur, interim co-president of the fabulous Philadelphia Orchestra
Tony Scafide, a television director for WTXF-TV, Fox 29 here in Philly
Marlin Taylor, father of Beautiful Music radio & Station Manager of WDVR
Dawn Timmeney, Fox 29, WTXF-TV News anchor and also reporter
Watch the Video from our YouTube Channel
(video courtesy of Broadcast Pioneers VP Brad Seecof and Metramedia Broadcasting & Studios)
AUDIO:
Member Rex Polier, the Evening Bulletin TV Critic, said of Vince Leonard in 1965: "Judged by the all-important ratings, Vince Leonard is far and away the one that most viewers tune in on the big 11 pm newscast." By the way, Polier also wrote for this newsletter fifty years ago. No copies of those newsletters are known to have survived. If you have some, we would love to get copies. However, we do have over 300 issues of this newsletter online for your reading pleasure.
In 2011, Vince Leonard wrote to us: "It had taken me 19 months to overcome John Facenda's longtime lead in Philadelphia television news. From the November 1959 rating books, I held the top position for the next 11 years when Larry Kane and his Action News team took over. They had come up with a great format."
Here's some audio of an Eyewitness News newscast. It dates from July 20, 1966. While this was a television broadcast, we only have audio. This is the only known version of this newscast that's known to exist today. It's from a time when the Eyewitness News format was less than a year old. The anchorman is member Vince Leonard who passed away last month.
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Here's another audio clip from another television broadcast. This one dates from Friday, July 30, 1971. It's the 11 pm broadcast and the top story was the landing of Apollo 15 on the moon. While this was a television broadcast, we only have audio. This is also the only known version of this newscast that is known to exist today.
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Why is audio of television broadcasts important? The real answer is that it's the only part of that telecast that now exists here in the 21st century. While we, as historians, we love to have the complete broadcast, we consider ourselves lucky that anything has survived. Remember, local television stations did not archive complete newscasts on a regular basis. While we consider ourselves lucky to have dozens and dozens of complete Eyewitness News newscasts on a professional video format (and they have all been digitized), that's only a handful. The oldest known complete Eyewitness News newscast known to exist today dates from 1968. It came out of the attic of Vince Leonard. We have digitized it and have given a copy to Channel 3. They didn't have one. History is only what gets saved.
A LITTLE BIT OF BROADCAST HISTORY!
(Left to right) Member Irv Homer and his son, Ronn Homer
Broadcast Pioneers Luncheon
Bala Golf Club, Philadelphia
Wednesday, February 21, 2007
(Photo taken by Board Member Bob Kravitz)
Irv was there not just because he was attending one of our luncheons (which he usually did). He was one of the speakers that day. The topic was "The Talk Kings of Philadelphia Radio." Others on the panel included Ed Harvey, Dom Giordano, Howard Eskin and Wally Kennedy. Irv Homer was inducted into our Hall of Fame in 2010.
IN TOUCH WITH OUR MEMBERS:
(Left to right) Brian Kilmeade (host of Fox and Friends) and member Harry Hurley
10th Annual Harry Hurley Charity Dinner and Silent Auction
Resorts International Hotel, Atlantic City
Friday, April 6, 2018
The Hurley in the Morning Charity is much more than his Golf Tournament. Member Harry Hurley gave his 10th Annual Dinner and Silent Auction at the beginning of last month and raised $30,000 for charity.
Resorts Casino - Hotel President and CEO, Mark Giannantonio said, “It was truly a spectacular event enjoyed by over 250 movers and shakers in South Jersey. Harry's Keynote speaker, Brian Kilmeade (of Fox and Friends) was an excellent choice and held the attention of the audience the entire evening."
“Brian is one of the most decent, generous and hard-working gentleman in our business. He hosted Fox & Friends and his radio program and left immediately for our event, said Harry Hurley. “Brian is a superstar, who is humble and incredibly engaging.”
Next month, the charity efforts continue with The 11th Annual “Hurley in the Morning” Charity Golf Open set for Friday, June 15th at Harbor Pines Golf Club.
Harry was inducted into our Hall of Fame in 2013. Harry and his charity have included Broadcast Pioneers in their lists of charities throughout this decade. At our April luncheon, Harry Hurley presented Broadcast Pioneers CEO Gerry Wilkinson with a check for $2,000. That's for underwriting another scholarship for 2019 (and they have been doing so for many years) and one thousand dollars in our archival project to preserve the broadcast history of our region including South Jersey.
Member Cindy Keiter is Les Keiter's daughter. You'll remember Les who did sports here in Philadelphia on WFIL-TV (now WPVI) back in the sixties. When Les moved the family to Hawaii to do broadcasting there, he ended up in many episodes of the original Hawaii Five-O television series. Last month, we ran a story in the newsletter about Les Keiter and Baseball Recreate. You can read it in our newsletter archives. Well, she has a play coming out and she'll be one of our speakers at this month's luncheon. She tells us:
After several rewrites and readings, it finally got script approval so we are going into production on June 14th for 4 weeks and 16 performances. I will be at the Lion Theatre on Theatre Row on West 42nd Street in Manhattan. It's a lovely 88 seat house midtown.
It's called "Recreating Keiter" and I finally got brave enough to tackle the lost art of the Baseball Recreate my dad used to do with the NY Giants when they moved to San Francisco and other teams as well. So I 've made up an imaginary baseball game with the National League vs. the American league and it's using the baseball recreate to tell my crazy story about life knocking you down and then getting back up-with baseball!
On Friday the 13th during April, Broadcast Pioneers member Brian Schwartz was a contestant on "Wheel of Fortune," carried here in Philadelphia daily at 7:30 on 6abc, WPVI. Brian is a 2013 graduate of Temple University.
Member Paul Gluck who runs TUTV (Temple University Television) said: "Some years ago, Brian created a show for TUTV, called "Tell All," which is a fast and funny game of word play. We are proud that, even after graduating, Brian still comes back to Temple to host and produce episodes of "Tell All," so the students in our production course can learn the fundamentals of how a game show is produced." Schwartz didn't win the big prize, but did win a trip. Brian's father, Lee Schwartz, is also a member of Broadcast Pioneers.
Did you know... that Alan Scott hosted television programs for the NBC Television Network? Well, it's true.
(Left to right) Hall of Famers Alan Scott and Dorie Lenz) This is part three (and the concluding segment) of this "Did You Know" column. The previous two episodes ran in our March and April 2018 newsletters. Continuing the story....
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Our special thanks go to TUTV - Temple University Television and The Kal & Lucille Rudman Media Production Center.
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MORE DIGITAL ARCHIVAL PROJECT NEWS:
VIDEO:
(Left to right) Al Alberts and his wife, Stella
The Al Alberts Showcase
6ABC, WPVI-TV
January 3, 1998
As many of you know, the Broadcast Pioneers of Philadelphia Video Archive is the home of 125 Al Alberts Showcase shows. These are the original 1" tapes that Channel 6 recorded the program on and the same ones used to air the broadcast. We are thrilled to have this material in our archives and are delighted that we were able to digitize all 125 shows.
We also have in our video archive, some 16 mm color silent footage dating from 1954. It was the wedding of Al Alberts and Stella. For the audio, we have Stella reading a letter that she wrote to Al. History is only what gets saved.
AUDIO:
In January of 1978, local radio personality and member of the Broadcast Pioneers of Philadelphia Joan Stack (Shafran), who had a daily interview program over WBUX Radio in Doylestown, spoke with member Vince Leonard. The program was broadcast live from a local restaurant. Vince was inducted into our Hall of Fame in 1992 and Joan was inducted in 2016. We have more than 50 of Stack's interviews in our audio archive (all have been digitized).
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In September of 1958, Channel 3 in Philadelphia was an NBC O&O, WRCV-TV. One of their newscasts was called PULSE OF THE NEWS featuring Broadcast Pioneers member Vince Leonard. It aired daily at 6:40 pm. It dates from September 22, 1958. The quality is not very good, but it's all we have. It was recorded on a green flexible disc that measured 8 and 3/4 inches in diameter. The material was originally donated by member Michael Muderick.
We went right to the source and asked member Vince Leonard in 2005 to tell us about these broadcasts. Here's what Leonard e-mailed back. He said:
I was hired as the Esso reporter in April of 1958. That was the 11 o'clock news which, at the time, was only a 10 minute program followed by Judy Lee and the weather. As I recall Esso stayed with us for several years.
Pulse of the News was on at 6:40, if my memory serves me correctly, and was only a five-minute newscast, often featuring interviews with city officials. That, of course, was not sponsored by Esso.
Having just one sponsor in those days was interesting because often I had to speak at Esso dealership meetings and attend other functions in New York with the ad agency people.
Now that I've told you more than your cared to know about me, my best wishes to you and the Broadcast Pioneers. It's an organization of which I'm proud to be a member.
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A LITTLE BIT OF BROADCAST HISTORY!
(Left to right) Members Karen Scioli, John Zacherle, Sally Starr and Ed Cunningham
Broadcast Pioneers Luncheon
Bala Golf Club, Philadelphia
Wednesday, October 18, 2006
(Photo taken by Gerry Wilkinson)
IN TOUCH WITH THE INDUSTRY:
The Minneapolis Entercom radio cluster got a new Operations Manager. It's Andy Bloom who had been here with the CBS Radio group including WIP-FM and WPHT, 1210 on AM. It was here for ten years, from 2007 until 2016. Andy is returning to where he grew up. He'll be overseeing WCCO-AM, 830 news/talk; BUZ'N at 102.9 (KMNB) and KZJK-FM, 104.1, Jack FM.
Beasley Media Group announced that the legendary rock radio station WMMR, 93.3FM has celebrated 50 years of broadcasting in Philadelphia this past Sunday.
This past Saturday, the station dedicated playing the top 50 live performances culled from the MMaRchives. It featured literally hundreds of live performances recorded at WMMR studios, as well as local venues.
Broadcast Pioneers Hall of Famer Pierre Robert celebrated WMMR’s 50th Birthday on Sunday by doing a rare weekend show to count down the top 50 rock songs played on WMMR, one from each year 2018 to 1968.
THIS AND THAT! Little Bits of Information....
Broadcast Pioneers Hall of Famer Dick Clayton Broadcast Pioneers Hall of Famer Tom Donohue was one of the original WIBG Good Guys (along with our Board member, Bill Wright, Sr.). Well, Tom moved west to become the father of free form rock radio in California. However, did you know that Tom Donohue was a direct descendant from Martha Washington, wife of the United States first president? This was confirmed by his wife. Many of us remember Tom Snyder's NBC-TV "Tomorrow" program, but how many of you remember a Sunday evening program Tom did on Sunday evenings called, "Prime Time Sunday?" Well, it was on Sundays at 10 pm. It started on June 24, 1979 and didn't last too long. Snyder did continue his late night Tomorrow program while doing this prime time news show. Snyder came to Philadelphia and was the first co-anchor of Eyewitness News (with member Marciarose Shestack). Snyder was inducted into our Hall of Fame in 2008 with Marciarose going in four years earlier. By the way, at about that same time, WHYY-TV decided that it was wise to cancel the scheduled "orgy" that they had planned to promote the airing of "I, Claudius." It was supposed to be rated G with the worst thing happening to be a food fight. In 1944, Gimbels was the sponsor on Mutual's Bulldog Drummond on Sunday evenings airing on WIP (owned by Gimbels). While Drummond was popular, so was several local programs on WIP including Uncle WIP (portrayed by Wayne Cody at that time). They also aired a Saturday morning broadcast entitled, "Calling All Girls" and was tied in to the magazine with the same name. The top ten albums on WDAS-FM for the week of February 26, 1976 were:
Record industry experts expected WRCV Radio to go with a Top 40 format when it became KYW Radio in June of 1965. It was figured that they would go after WIBG which was a market leader, a money maker and ripe to be picked off because of a heavy commercial load. History, of course, tells us that Westinghouse elected to go with the all news, all the time format. In 1961, some interesting things were happening here in Philadelphia radio. Hy Lit shows up on WDAS Radio, moving there from WCAM in Camden. Mitch Thomas also joins the air staff at WDAS from WILM in Wilmington. Leaving WDAS at that time was Hal Jackson who headed for the Big Apple. Thomas had previously been with WDAS and also did a dance show on Channel 12 (when it was a commercial TV station) based in Wilmington. Stan Lee Broza, this organization's first president, started in broadcasting on January 28, 1925 at WCAU Radio. Those were the days when WCAU didn't sign on the air until 7:30 pm, there was only one studio and the engineer was on the roof. When the station did a remote, Broza went from location to location on the trolley. How did they go from show to show when both programs originated from the studio? Simple. They picked up the mike and carried it to the other side of the studio where the next show was set up. "This and That" is written and researched by Gerry Wilkinson |
THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES:
Vince Leonard - His Story
in his own words!
Broadcast Pioneers member Vince Leonard
at his Las Vegas home
Christmas 2012
(that's one month before he wrote this)
Last month, the broadcast industry lost a real legend in Philadelphia telecasting, Vince Leonard. You can always read his bio on our website, but we thought you would really enjoy having Vince Leonard tell you about himself. It was written by Vince in January of 2013. While we were suffering through snow and freezing temperatures, Vince and his wife, Frankie, were enjoying the warmth that is Las Vegas. By the way, Vince Leonard was inducted into our Hall of Fame in 1992. That was the very first year that we ever inducted broadcasters into our Hall of Fame. This was written and sent to us for publication.
Reminiscing after nearly 23 years in retirement I can still recall vividly the changes in my life that eventually brought me to Philadelphia.
After serving in the Navy for more than 2 years during World War Two, I was attending college in Minnesota and working nights and weekends at a small radio station. The first words I ever spoke on the air were the beginning of a 15 minute noontime newscast.
In college I met Frances, the woman who was to become my wife. She was a teacher when I took a job at WISH radio, an ABC radio affiliate in Indianapolis. One year later I proposed and we were married in Minneapolis.
My time off permitted us to have a one week honeymoon before we started life in a tiny apartment in Indianapolis. It was a rather difficult time as we struggled on my small salary and what Frances could make working part-time.
I had been at WISH for seven years doing the early evening and late evening news and a number of other chores when I got a break that changed our lives. My employers received a television license in 1954.
Management named me the news director and I was given the job of writing and producing three news programs a day. It was surprising to me that I was soon working with two full-time news photographers.
They had a news van and a film processing unit along with editing facilities in their own room in our studios. I also had a part-time reporter. In less than six months we dominated the news ratings in central Indiana.
In early 1958 I was at home on a Sunday night when I received a call from Bob Lemon, the program director at WRCV-TV, the NBC owned and operated station in Philadelphia.
It was no small shock when he asked if I would be interested in joining them at Channel 3. We talked for a while and he asked me to discuss his proposal with my wife and said he'd call me back. A few days later I heard from Bob again.
This time he requested that I come to Philadelphia for an interview. So on a Saturday night after my late newscast, I caught a red eye flight. The site for our meeting seemed a bit unusual, it was in a room at the Sheraton Hotel early on Sunday morning.
On hand were Bob, the station manager and the news director. They had a light breakfast sent up and we talked about what they expected of me and what I could obtain from them if I were hired. A photographer was called in and they had me read some copy as it was recorded on film.
I flew home that afternoon more than a little excited. Frances and I decided we'd accept their proposal. We'd give it a year or two and see what happens. Well, a few days later I heard from Bob again and he said the job was mine. That would be the beginning of a 22-year run.
Leaving WISH-TV was not easy. We were a CBS affiliate and my bosses treated me very well. Most of the decisions concerning the news department were left to me. I had worked there for eleven years. They gave me a big party at the press club.
We sold our house quickly and soon were ready to leave. So Frances and I along with our seven-year old son, Mark, piled into our car and headed east. We arrived on April 14th, 1958.
We'll conclude this wonderful piece of history written by member Vince Leonard himself next month in our newsletter. He was truly one of the TV legends in Philadelphia broadcasting.
WDVR in 1963!
Member Marlin Taylor speaking at our
Broadcast Pioneers luncheon
Bala Golf Club, Philadelphia
Wednesday, April 18, 2018
(Photo taken by member Mel Klawansky)
Broadcast Pioneers member Marlin Taylor has just had his latest book published. It's called, "Radio: My Love, My Passion." You can get his book on Amazon by signing in at http://www.broadcastpioneers.com/amazon. By doing so, Amazon donates money to Broadcast Pioneers.
Taylor is best remembered as the “father” of the instrumentally-based radio format that became known as “Beautiful Music,” which he originated right here in Philadelphia with the sign-on of WDVR, 101 FM in 1963. Here's some of what Marlin wrote:
Friday, November 22, when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas. Up until this time, the station had never broadcast one word live and we did not have the capability to go live from the control room.
This made it nearly impossible for the operator on duty to handle this extreme situation of attempting to gather, prepare and record information and keep the station running as well. The microphone in the control room was wired to feed the cartridge recorder, as the operators always prerecorded all weather and news reports, providing the opportunity for them to be redone if a major mistake was made.
At the time the first bulletins of the shooting were being broadcast by the networks, I was across town in a bank office making one of my infrequent advertising sales calls. While I was sitting with the advertising manager, his telephone rang.
He answered and immediately got an alarmed look on his face. Upon hanging up, he told me what had happened and asked if I wanted to call the station. I did and was told that our morning operator at the time, Terry Wickham, had called and was on the way back to the station to help in whatever way possible.
I was immediately on my way as well, a trip that would take about 30 minutes door-to-door. What my thoughts were as I drove, I do not remember. I likely tuned into a station that was airing information about the President being shot––whether it was known at that point that he had died, I have no memory.
Knowing my thought processes, I’m sure much of my thinking was focused on what we needed to do regarding our programming and communicating to our listeners the relevant information about the shooting and what would follow.
Terry and I arrived at about the same time, and we quickly assembled the prime information and put Terry in the adjoining studio to report, as that’s where we had the capability to go live.Meanwhile, I began sorting through our recordings to choose selections that were not particularly familiar and rather low key as the nation began to mourn.
By evening, Dave Kurtz had arrived with a box of classical recordings from his personal collection and re-wired the control room microphone so that it was connected to the broadcast circuit.
I don’t believe we ever did another recorded news report after that time, which worked out well, as our operators had gained experience and demonstrated their capabilities.
On this momentous day in history, a gentleman named Mike Strug came on duty as the WDVR evening operator/announcer. I make note of Mike because he, more than anyone in our employ that I can remember, would go on to be a well-recognized name in Philadelphia broadcasting circles, with a decades-long career as a television news field reporter.
Throughout the weekend and until the beginning of the President’s state funeral proceedings on Monday morning, WDVR broadcast a mix of lighter symphonic music and selections from our regular library.
Of the latter, the music of the Melachrino Orchestra seemed very suited to our needs, if my memory serves me correctly. We gained a new and different audience during this time, as Philadelphia’s classical station had turned to a diet of Bach Masses and other heavy liturgical recordings, which was not to the particular liking of many of their listeners. Like most stations across the nations, we aired no commercials during this period.
During the weekend, I reached the General Manager of WRCV Radio, the NBC-owned station in Philadelphia, and gained his authorization to provide NBC Radio’s coverage of this momentous day to our listeners.
Unfortunately, WRCV was AM-only and we weren’t able to secure a static-free signal from them; however, we were able to pick up a strong, clear signal from WDEL-FM in Wilmington, Delaware, which still simulcast its AM sister, also an NBC affiliate—which saved the day.
After the President was laid to rest in Arlington National Cemetery late in the day, we along with most other radio and TV stations gradually returned to our regular programming.
Last month, we also ran an excerpt from Marline's work Taylor was inducted into the Broadcast Pioneers' Hall of Fame during November of 2015. Marlin was with us at our April luncheon and spoke about his book. If you missed it, you can watch it on our YouTube channel.
Les Keiter, More Info!
(Left to right) Lila and Les Keiter (on their honeymoon)
Washington Monument, Washington DC
September 1948
(Photo originally donated by Cindy's website leskeiter.com)
This article was written by Les Keiter's daughter, Cindy and her spouse, Lory Henning, who live in New York City. Les was inducted posthumously into our Hall of Fame in 2013. By the way, Cindy is one of our speakers at this month's luncheon. She has a show opening in Manhattan next month about her dad. Anyhow, here's what they wrote:
After the war ended, Les Keiter went right back to Centralia-Chehalis to his old job at KELA. Les’s job was the same, but Les has changed, and he found himself wanting more…
This is where the matchmaker kicks in. Les’ mother, Dolly Keiter, re-introduced Les to the kid sister to one of his fraternity brothers. Her name was Lila Hammerslough. Lila was 7 years his junior. I say “re-introduced,” because when Les first met Lila, that seven-year difference was the difference between a young adult and a child. Five years and a World War later, that wasn’t true anymore – Lila had grown up!
As Les would say, it wasn’t love at first sight, but one date led to another, and he described the turning point as follows:
One day, Les took Lila on a date to a Seattle Rainiers baseball game. While watching the game, Les began explaining how to keep score.
She put up with him for about 3 innings, then she took the program from him and scored the game herself – even better than he did! Unbeknownst to him, Lila Jean Hammerslough had been the sports editor of her school newspaper. She had been named “Outstanding Baseball Fan” by a local paper, and she regularly listened to baseball games on the radio, announced by Leo Lassen (Les’ hero).
Lila was also a heck of a softball player! Perhaps Dolly Keiter had known all of this when she made the re-introduction, but Les Keiter was completely surprised – and smitten.
From Lila’s perspective, they had been dating for some time and close to falling in love, so she didn’t want to make a scene about the scoring business. She said, “I didn’t know if I should play dumb or show him my smarts.” Les, it turned out, loved her smarts.
Les and Lila were married September 9th, 1948 in Seattle, WA, and their honeymoon was an adventure! Lila had never been east of Olympia, Washington. So, they flew to Chicago (and saw the Cubs), to Cleveland (saw the Indians) to Niagara Falls, and to New York City, where they saw every team, Broadway Show, and Big Band they could.
Then, they took in the sights in Washington D.C. before the happy couple ended their honeymoon in Los Angeles. From there, they drove up the coast and then inland to their first home: an upstairs apartment in Modesto, California.
A LITTLE BIT OF BROADCAST HISTORY!
(Left to right) Bob Klein and Carl Helm
WDAS Radio (WDAS AM & FM)
"The New Building"
Belmont and Edgely Roads, Philadelphia
circa 1975
(previously unpublished photo)
This photo was taken by the stations' Operations Manager, Gerry Wilkinson, in the hallway of the new building. The stations had outgrown the existing space in the original building erected in the fifties. That structure no longer exists today, but the new building still does. In the picture is WDAS' General Manager, Bob Klein. Note that Bob is wearing jeans and not a tie and jacket. You can see that Carl is wearing bell bottoms. Ties and jackets were not the norm at WDAS. It was a very casual setting. WDAS at that time was located in Fairmount Park on the grounds of the old Woodside Park. In fact, the WDAS towers are on the exact location of the roller coaster. Bob Klein was inducted into our Hall of Fame in 2010.
OUR HATS OFF TO YOU FOR GIVING:
We would like to thank the following for their contributions donated at our April luncheon. They include: Andrea Roe, Anthony Scafide, Brother Gerry Molyneaux, Damon Castle, Dorie Lenz, Gerry Wilkinson, Harry Hurley, Marian Lockett-Egan, Mel Klawansky, Mike Nozilo, Paul Big Bear, Tyler Pitis plus Pam and Todd Tuckey.
Special Thanks (in alphabetical order) for the gift of Appreciated Stock: (a federal tax advantage for the giver)
Member Marc Howard - $3,600 (put into our general fund to be used where needed)
Member Sylvia Kauders - $5,159.45 (used for the scholarships listed below)
Special Thanks (in alphabetical order) for contribution of $1,000 or more to our DAP, Digital Archival Project:
Member Jerry Del Colliano - $1,500
Member Johnny B. Hall and wife Ginny - $2,200
The Harry Hurley - Hurley in the Morning Charity (Harry is a member)- $1,000
The Shunfenthal Family (in memory of Sherri Shunfenthal's father, Les Waas) - $2,000
Member Marlin Taylor - $1,000
A member who prefers not to be identified publicly - $1,000
Special Thanks (in alphabetical order) for contribution of $1,000 or more into our General Fund to be used where needed:
Member Art Moore - $1,000
Member Brad Seecof and Metramedia Broadcasting & Studios - $1,000
Special Thanks (in alphabetical order) for April 2019 Scholarships:
Member Johnny B. Hall and his wife, Ginny - 5 scholarships
The Harry Hurley - Hurley in the Morning Charity - 1 scholarship (for a Stockton University student)
Member Sylvia Kauders - 1 scholarship (from a grant for 5 yearly scholarships running until 2019)
Member Kal Rudman - 5 scholarships (for Temple University students)
Member Tony Scafide - 1 scholarship
Special Thanks (in alphabetical order) for a contribution of $500 or more to our DAP, Digital Archival Project:
Member Bill Webber, Jr. - $500
The Philadelphia Eagles (in honor of Ray Didinger being inducted into our Hall of Fame) - $500
Armitage Shanks (not their real name) - $500
Members Robin and Ira Adelman - $500
Bequests in their Will:
Member Sylvia Kauders passed away recently. In her will, she bequest to the Broadcast Pioneers of Philadelphia, the amount of $5,000. This funding is to be used to underwrite one scholarship per year until gone. These scholarships will start in the year 2020 and continue until 2024. From a previous gift, Sylvia has underwritten one scholarship a year starting in 2015 and continuing until 2019.
Member Dave Shayer passed away last year. In his will, he bequest to the Broadcast Pioneers of Philadelphia, the amount of $5,000. This funding is to be used to underwrite our archival project which was dear to Dave's heart and soul.
Underwrite a complete scholarship and we'll give you credit in the electronic newsletter until the scholarship is awarded. Give us a donation of appreciated stock of $2,000 or more) and we'll list you in our "Thank You" column for two years. Give us a donation of $1,000 or more and we'll list you in our "Thank You" column for a year. Give us a donation of $500 or more and we'll list you in our "Thank You" column for six months. You can select how we use the money: for our archival project, for scholarships or for our general fund to be used as needed.
More Thanks:
A growing portion of the revenues that fund the different activities of the Broadcast Pioneers comes from donations. This includes our archival project and our scholarship program. Now we are making it even more beneficial for our donors. Broadcast Pioneers is now able to accept gifts of appreciated stock, which provides a significant tax benefit to you. By giving appreciated stock (stock which is worth more now than what it cost when it was purchased), you can get a charitable contribution tax deduction based on the current market value of your stock. At the same time, you avoid the capital gains tax that would arise if you simply sell the stock. So if you'd like to support our educational mission or our archival project and save money on taxes too, please consider making a gift of appreciated stock. We are a federally recognized, state chartered charity with a 501(c)(3) status. Contact us at (856) 365-5600 or e-mail pioneers@broadcastpioneers.com for more details.
Many of us are over 70 and a half years old. If you are, you can donate directly to Broadcast Pioneers from your IRA Account. If you take a distribution and then donate to us, you would have to pay federal tax on the distribution. By donating directly to us, you pay no tax and we get the full amount. Remember, this donation must go directly to us in order for you to avoid paying income tax. This direct donation may also prevent you from going into a higher tax bracket. That's always good. Speak with your tax advisor about this.
Don't be left out. You too can make a pledge. It's never too late. You can earmark it for scholarships, our Digital Archival Project or our general fund. Thanks so much for your support. If you forgot to make an extra contribution (cash or memorabilia) and would like to do so now, you can do so. We would be thrilled to hear from you at: PO Box 2886, Bala Cynwyd, PA 19004, call us at (856) 365-5600 or e-mail us at: pioneers@broadcastpioneers.com
A FINAL THOUGHT....
Once when they (Frankie and Vince Leonard) were visiting us in Michigan, we took them for a boat ride, stopping at a waterside restaurant for lunch. When a young woman approached me to ask for an autograph, I pointed to Vince and said, "Hey, here's the guy you really need to ask. This is Leslie Neilsen." Vince did bear a striking resemblance to the comedic actor. She bought the story, asked him for his signature, and he played along, signing his name, "Leslie Neilsen." The gag became a standing joke, and often when I would call on the phone, I'd ask Frankie, "Hey, is Leslie home?" When I got the call a few weeks ago that Vince was terminal, I flew out and spent a wonderful afternoon with the two of them. Boy, did we laugh as we reminisced about old times -- yes, including the Leslie Neilsen caper.
Member Mort Crim
Tuesday, April 3, 2018
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