Broadcast Pioneers of Philadelphia is a federally recognized, state chartered 501(c)(3) non-profit organization serving the Philadelphia Broadcast Community since January of 1962.

October Afternoon Luncheon The Bala Golf Club, Philadelphia Wednesday, October 18, 2017

Meet and Greet at 12 noon! Lunch served at 12:30 pm! Ratecard: $28 per person

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Another Third Wednesday Luncheon! Wednesday, October 18th, 2017! Good Food - Great Programs - Wonderful Times Tribute to Jane Norman (TV's "Pixanne") Lunch is only $28 per person!

Jane "Pixanne" Norman at her Bala Cynwyd home Monday morning, January 2, 2017 Jane Norman did it all! She was a singer, composer, writer and television personality. She began her musical career at age three, and at age eight one of her compositions was performed by the renowned Philadelphia Orchestra. She went on to create and star in the nationally syndicated award-winning television show PIXANNE, which received a 12 rating and 62% share of audience when it aired on CBS, where it out-rated every other program, including soap operas and early evening news-a rare TV phenomenon. With a handful of “pixie dust” and an ocean full of talent, Jane Norman flew into the hearts of millions of children who watched her as PIXANNE for 17 years on local and national television. Read Her Bio Watch Half-hour Interview with Jane Norman (video courtesy of Broadcast Pioneers VP Brad Seecof and Metramedia Broadcasting & Studios

Hit After Hit, Smash After Smash, Blockbuster After Blockbuster... Here's another "monster" lunch where the "stars" don't wait to come out until night. They're there at lunchtime! Our tribute to Jane Norman is a star-studded event. Our MC for the afternoon is former WCAU-TV News Personality, Bill Baldini. (Special note: If you watch the interview we did with Jane in January, you'll notice someone very familiar doing the interviewing. It's Bill Baldini, so it just made sense to bring Bill back as our MC.) Our scheduled speakers include:: Jerry Blavat who will be telling us all about the era of the hosts of local Philadelphia children's programs. Jerry was doing his Discophonic Scene telecast at WCAU-TV while Jane portrayed Pixanne on the same station. Ed Cunningham, producer, writer of the smash hit, the WHYY-TV Special from ten years ago, "Philly's Favorite TV Kids Show Hosts." Dick Kearney, who worked at WCAU-TV for decades as a camera operator. He has many inside stories to tell you. David Madden, KYW News reporter and anchor who used to watch Jane Norman's "Pixanne" show when he was a child. Steve Ross and Jim Murray of the long running radio program, "Remember When." It was an interesting era in television in the sixties. Jim Craine, radio host "The Jim Craine Show" at WOND, 1400 AM at the shore. Heard Saturday evenings from 8 to 10 pm. Liz Stadler, Jane Norman's granddaughter, who will be presenting to the organization Jane's original Pixanne costume and other memorabilia for the Broadcast Pioneers Archives. Plus, the trio of musicians who performed on many of Jane's recordings. They are: Paul Jost, Dean Schneider and Kevin MacConnell. This takes place at the beautiful and historic Bala Golf Club, 2200 Belmont Avenue (across the street from the state police) in the Wynnefield section of Philadelphia. Only minutes away from Channels 6, 10 and 17 and the radio stations in Bala Cynwyd. Call now for reservations. (856) 365-5600! Don't miss this one! Meet and greet at 12 noon! Lunch served at 12:30 pm. Plenty of FREE parking. Our luncheons are open to all our members, their guests and any person in the industry or associated fields, whether active or retired. You do NOT have to be a member to attend. There is no reserved seating at our luncheons. Feel free to sit anywhere. Well, okay--the three people on the camera crew sit near the cameras, but that's in the back of the room. The cost is only a donation of $28 (or more) per person! In order to speed up check-in at the luncheon, it would help if you had exact change or your check already written. Checks can be made payable to the Broadcast Pioneers of Philadelphia. If you would like to add a few dollars extra, we would appreciate it. It would help us with all the important work we are doing. Thanks!

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NEW MEMBERS TO BROADCAST PIONEERS:

FULL MEMBERS:

John Ostapkovich has been in the business for 43 years. He has been an anchor and reporter on KYW Newsradio since 1984. Before that, he worked for Eyewitness News, KYW-TV as a producer and writer. He also was at WDHO-TV (now WNWO) in Toledo where he said that he did damn near everything. He was also a sportscaster for AP Radio for a couple of years in the 70's and started at WKBO Radio in Harrisburg.

We welcome Jerry Tomeo into our membership. You may know him better as Damon Castle, his air name. He started in the business in 1966 and is now retired. He worked at WEEZ, Chester from the mid-sixties until 1970 when he went to WIFI. He stayed there a couple of years and then went over the Delaware River to WCAM in Camden. He stayed for a year and then went to WCAU-FM. He also did rock promotions for decades.

ASSOCIATE MEMBERS:

Ben Carotenuto is rather new to our wonderful business. He's only been in it for just four years. Carotenuto has employed at WMGM-TV, Channel 40 at the shore for two years as a multimedia producer. He's also been with Comcast Sportsnet Philly as a studio tech and with the Fox O&O, WTXF-TV, Fox 29 as an engineering tech. Ben has also been a studio engineer for Temple University.

Benjamin McWilliams is a recent graduate of Temple University. Ben covered high school basketball based in Philly for "City of Basketball Love." He also served as a sports content management intern for Sportle, based in Los Angeles. Last year, he covered sports for Philadelphianeighborhoods.com with news about basketball, football, men's soccer, women's lacrosse and gymnastics.

We are thrilled to have over 500 Members. More than ever. We hope to see as many of our members as possible at our annual banquet on Friday, November 17, 2017.. Get your tickets now!

DIGITAL ARCHIVAL PROJECT NEWS:

Our special thanks go to TUTV - Temple University Television and The Kal & Lucille Rudman Media Production Center. They have underwritten a grant to be used to fund an entire year of all our newsletters for calendar year 2017. We thank them so much for their support!

MORE DIGITAL ARCHIVAL PROJECT NEWS:

VIDEO:

AUDIO:

We told you awhile ago that Sue Wright, Nat's widow, donated a couple boxes of old audio reel to reel tapes. They have all been digitized. Not only do they include Nat on WIP Radio where he was a mainstay for a quarter of a century, but also some pre-WIP broadcasts from WWDC in Washington. Here's a cut from a Nat Wright beeper news report about a PTC Elevated train derailment. Can anyone help us date it? We know it's between 1961 and 1968.

Listen in Real Audio!
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Ice Hockey always seems to be on some people's minds. Because of this, we thought you might enjoy hearing a 13-minute excerpt of a Philadelphia Falcons and New York Rovers (a farm team of the Rangers) Ice Hockey game broadcast over WFIL Radio on February 6, 1946. By the way, if you listen carefully, you can hear Tom Moorehead (the 8th President of the Broadcast Pioneers of Philadelphia) mention a player on the NYC team called "Shero." Tom was talking about Coach Fred Shero who led the Flyers to two Stanley Cups during the 1974 and 1975 seasons. Sorry, only the Real Audio version is available.

Listen to the game in Real Audio!

Remember, History is ONLY What Gets Saved!
(If there were no portraits of George Washington, how would we know what he looked like?)

A LITTLE BIT OF BROADCAST HISTORY!

IN TOUCH WITH THE INDUSTRY:

Pennhurst Asylum and CBS Radio stations in Philadelphia, Today’s 96.5 - WTDY, 92.5 XTU - WXTU, 94.1 WIP, 1210 WPHT and 98.1 WOGL partnered to present the first annual Haunted Hops Festival. The event took place on Saturday, September 23rd at the former Pennhurst State School and Hospital located at Church Street and Bridge Road in Spring City, PA. A portion of ticket sales will go to benefit former residents of Pennhurst.. The festival allowed visitors to sample dozens of the best craft seasonal beers.

NBC10, WCAU announced that two local people are coming home to the Philadelphia area to work at the station. They are meteorologist Steven Sosna and reporter/anchor Dray Clark . A Montgomery County native, Sosna was born in Sellersville and raised in Lansdale, PA. He comes to NBC10 from NBC 4 in New York where he was Senior Weather Producer and fill-in on-air meteorologist for MSNBC. Born and raised in Chester, Delaware County, Dray Clark has worked in television for 17 years. He comes to NBC10 from WABC in New York. Prior to that, Clark worked for five years as a reporter and anchor at KYW-TV here in Philadelphia.

Launched in 2002, "Lights for the Cure," a joint effort by CBS 3 and Susan G. Komen® Philadelphia, will turn the area skyline pink for the 16th year in a row in recognition of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month and to remind women to schedule an annual mammogram.

All this month, buildings and landmarks throughout the region from Lincoln Financial Field in South Philadelphia to the Bethlehem Steel Blast Furnaces in the Lehigh Valley will turn their exterior lighting pink to promote the cause. New buildings joining the campaign this year include The Ritz-Carlton, Philadelphia, the FMC Tower, One Riverside and SugarHouse Casino. Also included are such landmarks as the Battleship New Jersey, Boathouse Row, Macy’s Grand Court and the Lits Building.

WE REMEMBER:

(Left to right) Members Iris Loev and Sally Starr
WFIL-TV, Studio C
46th and Market Streets, Philadelphia
circa 1959

Last month we lost member Iris Loev (pronounced Love). Many of us will remember her as Goldie the Bunny on "Popeye Theater" with Sally Starr on WFIL-TV, Channel 6. Iris represented Gold Square Stamps for both the Food Fair Grocery Chain and Lit Brothers Department Store. Iris is had a cubby next to Dick Clark at Channel 6.

Iris' husband, Arthur, told us a little about their life together. He said:

Iris was born on July 11, 1937 and was just 80 when she passed due to lung cancer. We were married 52 3/4 years and have three children and six grandchildren. I first saw her in a show starring Donald Woods. She played the French maid in it and i told my cousin how lovely she looked and so wanted to meet her. Went back to active duty as i was in the Army.

About 5 months later, my twin brother and sister-in-law happened to meet her as they both had a Metropolitan car which was unique. I called and made the blind date She was gorgeous inside and out. She was on Sally's Show for 4 years and the only other regular live person on regularly besides Our Gal Sal. Her smile lit up the entire room.

Broadcast Pioneer Joaquin Bowman passed away during the summer. Joaquin had a long career in broadcasting and public relations including the fact that he was one of the first FM disc jockeys in the Philadelphia region. That would be WDVR which today is known as More FM. He was a dancer for a couple of years on American Bandstand. He also worked for WJMJ and WIBF before becoming Director of Public Relations and Advertising for SEPTA.

During his last year or so, Board member Les Waas needed a ride to our luncheons. We asked Joaquin if he could bring him since they were both in the same area geographically. Afterwards, Bowman called and thanked us. He said that Les had such great stories that it was his pleasure to transport Les. After that, Joaquin brought Les to almost every luncheon. They became good friends. One the way to the luncheons, they often sang some of the jingles Waas wrote including: "Everyone you know goes to Melrose" and "Gimme a little Kissling's Sauerkraut."

(Left to right) Nancy Wilson and member Reggie Lavong
circa 1962

Reggie Lavong, 83, passed away last month. He became a radio announcer at WRTI when attending Temple University. Reggie was well known in Philadelphia and elsewhere including New York, Los Angeles and Chicago. In the early sixties, Broadcast Pioneers member Len Stevens was looking for investors in what would become WPHL-TV, Channel 17 in Philadelphia. Reggie and his good friend, Georgie Woods each became involved. They were the first black owners of a TV station in the United States. Reggie and his partner Miller Parker purchased WHAT Radio in 1986 and flipped the format to African-American telephone talk. Lavong was a member of the Broadcast Pioneers of Philadelphia.

Though not an employee of the station, Reggie became the voice of WDAS (AM) during its heyday in the early to mid-seventies. Gerry Wilkinson, CEO of Broadcast Pioneers, who was Operations Manager of WDAS at the time recalls: "Reggie was visiting the station to get VP of Programming Jimmy Bishop to play records that Lavong was promoting. Reggie has a deep, rich voice and Bishop sent him over to the production studio to cut the tracks. He was always professional and usually cut everything in one take."

THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES:

Soul for Sale!
(The Story of Ed Eisen)

Broadcast Pioneers member Ed Eisen’s career in communications spans 52 years. He worked in radio, television, newspapers and pubic relations. He was a top 40 DJ, a TV producer, booth announcer, career counselor and read books for the blind. Ed wrote a book called "Soul for Sale". It's his life story. You can read his bio here! We thought you would enjoy hearing about how he first got started in the business. We present it in three parts. The first installment is presented this month with the other two in months to come. His tale starts this way:

The road from the graduating class at Camden High School in 1954 to the general assignment desk at The Philadelphia Inquirer took 12 years. It was a path littered with more than a few twists and turns.

The fact that I got there at all is not a tribute to great writing talent. There were far better scribes who stumbled, smarter entrepreneurs who bombed and dulcet toned DJs who crashed. Mine was a journey that straddled all these slippery slopes.

That I succeeded at all over these 52 years is a tribute largely to one thing: dogged persistence. Many quit after rejection. I survived because I strived to seek the next ‘yes’ after enduring scores of ‘nos.’ I learned in my teens when I hawked Fuller Brushes, that life, like sales, is a numbers game. Hang in long enough and a door is likely to open. The key: keep knocking. From early on, my career target was radio. Only later did I see journalism as a path more stable.

My earliest passion was to someday study at the Pasadena Playhouse in California. Perhaps write a screen play. That was not to be. It has been said if you aim at nothing, you will succeed at hitting nothing. So I pursued radio with a passion, discovering later that a far better strategy is to build a reputation as a print journalist. Once I arrived, it didn’t take long to figure out that broadcasting, as exciting a career field as it may appear, can be a highly discouraging pursuit, akin in many ways to answering a cattle call as an actor. You stand atop the heap today. Tomorrow a better voice, a smoother style, a prettier face enters. Suddenly you’re out. Out as in canned, dispatching tapes and resumes again. Let me tell you what radio was like when I started back in the mid-50s.

Television was coming of age. Radio was in a struggle for survival, just as newspapers are today. Soap operas, including my beloved Lone Ranger, were vanishing from the AM dial. The sound of hooves were heard again but this time as moving pictures on tiny screens. What emerged was a hip-swinging Elvis Presley, the Beatles and dozens of other white entertainers who began to mirror black rhythm and blues singers. A guy by the name of Gordon MacClendon sat in a restaurant one day and noticed that teens, soon to be known as baby boomers, would play the same songs over and over again on the jukebox. Why not make radio programming like that, MacClendon reasoned. His formula worked: the repetition of short play lists saved local radio from extinction. A new concentration on delivering local news began to dominate the airwaves. The deeper, the brassier the voices, the bigger the audience. Philadelphia, like other major metro areas, had radio stations building their brand on top hits and big personalities.

It was in this milieu that my radio career was launched first in high school, then as a freshman at WRTI at Temple University, and then at WWBZ, a small 1,000 watter in Vineland, N.J. Egg farmers were its prime commercial audience. I remember bombarding the station with phone calls and letters while working the night shift as a copy boy at the old Philadelphia Daily News. Nothing seemed to work. Later the station manager told me it was my persistence that won the day.

My paycheck was $55 a week. My job was to ferret out local news, work weekends and take the trash out at night. The summer passed and as I was preparing to enter my sophomore year at Temple University, WWBZ fired its morning DJ. I was offered the slot and decided to stay. I remember how my mom, a lady with only a 4th grade education, pleaded that I remain at Temple. Years earlier this diminutive woman from Latvia labored long hours as a seamstress in New York’s overcrowded garment industry. Lillian Koppel innately understood the value of an education. Sadly, I failed to heed her pleadings. My thirst for broadcasting overcame her objections. It was a thirst born of the same dreams that propel others to New York and Hollywood for careers in show business. Call it the 15 Minutes of Fame Syndrome, a condition more often than not terminating with a curtain that never rises.

My schedule at WWBZ went something like this: Get up at 4:30 a.m., get dressed, drive off the farm on which I lived while making an effort to avoid hitting the chickens on the way out. I would open the station at 5:30 a.m. At 6, I would start spinning records, announce egg prices and tout Purina chow.

More Herb Clarke's Garden Reports!

Member Herb Clarke
"Your Atlantic Weatherman"
WCAU-TV, Philadelphia
circa 1958

We have in our archives, every garden report script that member Herb Clarke wrote when he was doing "The Garden Report" on KYW Newsradio. He did them for years. We thought you might enjoy three of them from October of 2002. Herb was our "Person of the Year" in 1991. Clarke also served as President of this organization during 1988 and 1989.

October 3, 2002

Landscaping - especially with trees – can spurt in growth in a few years and upset the best-laid plans for the yard. Where you once planted sun-loving flowers and green lawn is hidden now by shade trees, and the ground is largely bare. You have a challenge here, but it’s also an opportunity to create a backyard oasis – cool, colorful and relaxing.

Do some planning and make friends with an expert at a good garden center and ask for advice. This is a good time of year for that.

You might consider putting in a small pond. Garden centers have the plastic forms, the little pumps, the water plants and the how-to directions.

Add good topsoil, several inches of it, where you’ll be planting and decide what to plant and where. Hostas and ferns are ideal for shady areas. Ivy, too. A lot of flowers do their best in shade: Impatiens, Begonias, Crested Iris, Native Phlox and Columbines.

How about a little path and maybe a bench? ‘Cause I think you’ll be spending time in the shade garden on hot summer days.

October 8, 2002

Plant grass when Mother Nature does – in October. Your lawn is re-seeding itself now. If it needs help for bare or thin spots, heavy wear or play areas, you probably need to seed this month.

As a homeowner, nothing you buy all year is as important as grass seed. The lawn is “stage” for the home and garden. Here are a few things you should know:

The bag or package of grass seed comes with a label: where it was grown, what type seed it is, the varieties, the mixture – that is, an annual which gets you started and dies or a perennial which stays with you.
The label also tells you the percentage of seed which will germinate.
There’s a listing of “crop seed,” such as clover and bentgrass. Look for less than three-percent “crop grass.”
High quality grass seed will have very little weed seed. On the label, less than point-five percent weed seed is about as good as it gets.

October 14, 2002

Clay soil may be rich in nutrients, but its particles are so tightly packed it’s tough for roots to move through them. But don’t give up hope. Clay soil can be loosened for better drainage and changed to a good gardening medium.

Don’t use sand, though. Sand may make clay soil even worse by compacting the clay tighter, causing less drainage.

So, how do you loosen tight clay soil? With organic matter in any form, including peat moss, leaves, sawdust, rotted manure, and compost. Work a mix of these deeply into the soil, digging it into the heavy clay.

Another thing: Add gypsum. Gypsum is neutral and inexpensive and it has the ability to make very fine clay particles lump together to create bigger particles, more pore space and looser soil.

Do it now, in October, and again in the spring and you’ll have far better garden soil.

What Would Become an Entire School at Temple University!

From volume 1, number 8, the November - December 1946 issue of the WFIL Time, a house organ for the WFIL stations.

Armand Hunter Named Director
of the Temple University Radio Department
(out of this came the beginning of WRTI)

Temple University's new department of Radio, Dramatics and Speech, which is being established in cooperation with WFIL, will be in full operation at the start of the February semester. Armand Hunter, chairman of the department of radio at Northwestern University, has accepted the post of chairman of Temple's new department.

Delayed by the shortage of materials and building space, the proposed campus workshop and studio are now planned, and the entire course has been outlined.

Students enrolling in the Temple radio department will receive instruction in "Introduction to Radio," "Public Speaking," "Elementary Acting," "Radio Speaking," "Radio Writing," "Radio Production," "Voice and Phonetics," "Argumentation and Discussion" and "Current Broadcasting Problems."

The four-year course will be rounded out with basic background subjects and graduates will receive a Bachelor of Science Degree.

(Left to right) Romulo Soldevilla, instructor; John Roberts, director of Radio-TV
Armand Hunter, department chairman and David Davis, graduate student and later instructor
The basement studios of WRTI
Thomas Hall, Temple University
circa 1948

Mr. Hunter comes to Temple and WFIL with a wealth of experience in both radio and education. A graduate of the University of Nebraska, he taught radio, public speaking, theater, and interpretation there for four years. He has been on Northwestern's radio staff for five years, and has been chairman of the department for three years.

He has been director of Northwestern's NBC Summer Radio Institute and of the University's radio Playshop since 1943. At the same time, Mr. Hunter has acted in dozens of network dramas and has done radio production work for many Chicago and Nebraska radio stations.

Under the agreement reached by WFIL and Temple last March, the radio station will set up and equip the studio and workshop on the campus. Likewise, WFIL Staff members will aid the department by giving counsel and assistance to students. Programs of merit developed at Temple will be given an outlet through WFIL and WFIL-FM.

OUR HATS OFF TO YOU FOR GIVING:

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 Johnny B. Hall and wife Ginny - $3,000
Member Jerry Del Colliano - $1,500
Member Harry Hurley's Golf Tournament - $1,000
The Shunfenthal Family (in memory of Sherri Shunfenthal's father, Les Waas) - $2,000
Member Marlin Taylor - $1,000

Special Thanks (in alphabetical order) for contribution of $1,000 into our General Fund to be used where needed:

Member Art Moore - $1,000

Special Thanks (in alphabetical order) for April 2018 Scholarships:

Member Sylvia Kauders - 1 scholarship (from a grant for 5 yearly scholarships running until 2019)
The Shunfenthal Family (in memory of Sherri Shunfenthal's father, Les Waas) - 1 scholarship
Member Harry Hurley's Golf Tournament - 1 scholarship (for a Stockton University student)
Member Kal Rudman - 5 scholarships (for Temple University students)
Member Marlin Taylor - 1 scholarship
Member Johnny B. Hall and his wife, Ginny - more scholarships for 2018
Member Alan Tripp - 1 scholarship in honor of his 100th birthday

Special Thanks (in alphabetical order) for a contribution of $500 or more to our DAP, Digital Archival Project:

Member Lauren Lipton - $500

Bequests in their Will:

Member Sylvia Kauders passed away earlier this year. 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 W. Carter Merbreier passed away a couple of months ago. In his will, he bequest to the Broadcast Pioneers of Philadelphia, the amount of $1,000. This funding is to be used to underwrite one scholarship which will be awarded in April of 2017.

Underwrite a complete scholarship and we'll give you credit in the electronic newsletter until the scholarship is awarded in April of 2018. 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.

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....

Broadcast Pioneers member Joe Ball, founder and continuing president of Act. Inc., a 61 year old marketing company, says: "I still have the fire." Joe is 88 years old. He's running commercials on WWDB, 860 on the AM dial. The spots advertise his services. He says on the ads, "I am 88, Call me quickly, for obvious reasons."

Member Joe Ball
September 2017

Please contact us by e-mail at pioneers@broadcastpioneers.com or by mail to: Broadcast Pioneers of Philadelphia, PO Box 2886, Bala Cynwyd, PA 19004. Your stories are important, to you, to us, and your colleagues. Contact us today and we’ll include your story in the next newsletter!

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