Pat Delsi
Broadcast Pioneers Luncheon
2000

Broadcast Pioneers member Pat Delsi worked for WRCV Radio (now KYW Radio) in the mid sixties. In fact, Pat was the one that signed off WRCV, owned by NBC and then a second or two later, signed the station back on as KYW Radio, owned by Group W, Westinghouse broadcasting.

The brief excerpt we have dates from April of 1965 when the station was still WRCV. We have pieced together the "bits and pieces" of this local newscast that we have. Unfortunately, it wasn't saved for the newscast but for another purpose and thus only a small amount of material exists.

For a brief time, we thought that this news excerpt was mis-dated. If it were only a few months later, it could have been WCAM Radio, in Camden, NJ. They became the NBC Radio affiliate, carried Monitor on the weekends and Pat Delsi had moved over to WCAM. The fact that this news excerpt has a news tease about Camden and that the sponsor was a Camden bank, would make you think that it would be likely that this clip was from WCAM. However, we have been able to verify from other material on the tape, that the station was definitely WRCV Radio.

From the official archives of the Broadcast Pioneers of Philadelphia
Photo and audio clip originally donated by Broadcast Pioneers member Gerry Wilkinson
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