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Another One
Better Than the Other One!


Join us on Wednesday, February 15th, at the Bala Golf Club, for another fabulous luncheon. This one (better than the other one) is all about "MUSIC AND RADIO!"

Our moderator and emcee for the afternoon will be Broadcast Pioneers member Lew Klein. Lew was a former president and former chairman of the board of this organization. He was also co-owner of Gateway Communications and was the Executive Producer of "American Bandstand" during its Philadelphia run. Our panel will include these fabulous experts (in alphabetical order):

John DeBella, morning air personality on WMGK, 102.9 FM
Frank X. Feller, formerly of WIBBAGE and WYSP-FM
Ed Hurst, the legendary broadcaster for seven decades
Kenny Jeremiah, entertainer, formerly of the Soul Survivors
T. Morgan, currently, a WMGK-FM, 102.9 air personality
Bill Wright, Sr., the iconic "Rebel" of WIBG and WPEN fame

It all takes place on Wednesday, February 15th at the beautiful and historic Bala Golf Club, 2200 Belmont Avenue (across the street from the State Police) in the Wynnefield section of Philadelphia. Just only minutes away from Channels 6, 10 and 17 and the radio stations in Bala Cynwyd.

Meet and greet (networking) starts at 12 noon, and a full-course lunch including salad, coffee or tea and dessert will be served at 12:30 pm. There will also be a crudité and cheese table. Cash bar available all afternoon!

The cost is still only $25 per person. This is our 7th year without a price increase! Cash bar available all afternoon. Plenty of FREE parking or valet service. The luncheon is 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. Call NOW with your reservation(s), (856) 365-5600!

NOW ACCEPTING
SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATIONS!
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DEADLINE IS FEBRUARY 10th!
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The Broadcast Pioneers of Philadelphia will award in Spring of 2012, seventeen $1,000.00 scholarships to outstanding undergraduate students studying radio, TV, film production and associated fields.

Open to all communications students (and related fields). Student must either live in the Delaware Valley or attend school there. Available for current Sophomores and Juniors!

GET ALL THE INFO & FILL-IN THE FORM!

Help Us Save Our History!


The Broadcast Pioneers of Philadelphia since our beginning in 1962 has maintained archival material of broadcast related items for our market. Help us save our past! Please!

We are looking for donated materials. If you have or know of anyone willing to contribute any broadcast memorabilia, please contact us at 856-365-5600 or e-mail the Broadcast Pioneers at pioneers@broadcastpioneers.com. This would include photos, scans, audio, video and articles. This material may also be used on our website.

Our Mystery Photo for February 2012

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Check out Our Photos, History, Bios, Audio and Video Areas
 Our Photo Section - to 1960  Our Photo Section - from 1961
 Our Video Section  Our Audio Section
 Broadcast History Section  Our Biography Section
 Our Hall of Fame  Our Persons of the Year
 Future Broadcast Pioneers  Our 2011 Banquet
 Our Bylaws  Our Officers and Board
 October 2010 Symposium Scholarship Information
 Our Screensaver Oral History Projects
 Join Broadcast Pioneers  Calendar of Events
 Who Are We?  Our Newsletter
 Our Presidents Our Chairmen of the Board

There's a nice, huge story on the Time Magazine website about Philadelphia Television in the Fifties. It mentions our website and draws from our material. Author Richard Corliss refers to this site as "invaluable...a trove of early TV memories for Delaware Valley nostalgiaholics."

Our encoding of audio and video has been upgraded for clearer, sharper and less choppy video with better sounding audio. We are using the latest technology and this may require you to download (it's free) the latest version of the Real Player. Items previously on our website will still work with older versions. All items will play on the most current. Once you download the latest free player, you still may be required to download older codes for everything to work. This is normal and very easy. Just follow the prompts. We have also started to encode our audio and video in the Windows Media format. That player is usually installed as part of Windows when you purchased your computer.

Some of our older files of our audio and video rolls. That is, it goes from one files directly into the next segment. This is done for faster loading. We are also encoding with surestream. This means the file actually contains two streams. One is for dial-up connections and the other is for DSL, Cable and other broadband connections. Your computer will automatically select the correct stream. Newer uploads usually are in one segment (this is because of an increase in technology).

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None of the material contained on this website may be reproduced elsewhere without the express permission of "The Broadcast Pioneers of Philadelphia." Where material is owned by others who have given us permission to use their property, you must also gain their approval and authority before use. None of our material falls under "Fair Use" provisions of copyright laws.

The material published on this website is like any other published work and subject to the same copyright protection. Some research used on this site is exclusive. It is the property of the researcher and cannot be reproduced in any form without permission.

We do NOT make or sell copies of any material in our archives. We just do not have the staff to do this. Hardly any local show is available for home use anywhere.

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