The Broadcast Pioneers of Philadelphia

WELCOME NEW MEMBERS:

Full Members:

Marc Rayfield is a Senior Vice-President for the five CBS Radio stations (KYW Newsradio, WIP Sports Talk, Oldies station WOGL, WPHT Talk Radio and Rocker WYSP) here in the Philadelphia area. He has been the marketing director for WUSL and WFIL, Local Sales Manager for WIP Radio. He's a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania.

Solo artist and the amazing lead singer of the rock group "Renaissance," Annie Haslam has become a member. She's president of the White Dove Organisation, Inc. in Doylestown. Hailing from Bolton, Greater Manchester, in the United Kingdom, Annie now lives in the area, has a five octave range and had studied opera. She is also a artistic painter.

Bill Vitka is the former news director of WMMR Radio. He has worked at WPIX-FM in the Big Apple, NBC Radio, CBS Radio and is currently an anchor for Fox News Radio. Vitka won the prestigious Peabody Award, the Edward R. Murrow Award, the Society of Professional Journalists Award, and the New York Festival Award. Welcome aboard!!

Dr. Lydia Reeves Timmins started in the business during 1988. She started at WMGC-TV in Binghamton, NY as a producer and reporter then move to First State News in New Castle and then WDAF in Kansas City. She was at NBC 10 for 15 years as a producer and creator of "The 10! Show." She was also the station's New Jersey Bureau Chief.

Barbara Ann Zippi is Al Alberts' niece. For a decade, she worked on the Al Alberts Showcase as an Assistant to the Producers. In 1981, she started Artemis Productions in West Chester, specializing in Public Relations and Special Events. She has served for last 5 years as the president of the The Press Club of the Philadelphia Suburbs.

Another new member is Bart Axelrod. He has been at WBCB Radio, 1490 on AM (Merrill Reese's station) in Levittown, PA. for the last ten years where he works as an announcer. He's the host of the station's "Ella Fitzgerald Hour" and co-host of "Sunshine Music Memories." He the past he has also served the station in many other capacities.

William Nicoletti has worked in our industry for more than two decades. All that time, he has been the owner and operator of Visual Innovations, Inc., a center city film and video production company and post production facility that has produced TV campaigns for Fortune 500 Companies including PNC Bank, MBNA America, Bank of America and NBC Universal.

We are thrilled to have these new members. They've helped to bring our total membership up to 419 (an all-time record). We hope to see as many of you as possible at the March luncheon.

The e-mail address of the Broadcast Pioneers of Philadelphia is pioneers@broadcastpioneers.com