The Broadcast Pioneers of Philadelphia

(Left to right) WIP engineer Frank Pfaff, unidentified female, John Facenda and unidentified male
WIP Election Headquarters
1951

This shows WIP Radio doing election coverage. The station was the Mutual Broadcasting System's affiliate in Philadelphia at that time. Whether any of these election broadcasts were fed to the network, we do not know. If you can identifiy any of the two unidentified people in this shot, please e-mail us.

By the way, engineer Frank Pfaff started in broadcasting at WFI (which later became WFIL Radio) and then went to WIP in 1931 where he stayed until 1972.

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