Elliot Brodsky

His Story

The following is an e-mail from Elliot Brodsky to Gerry Wilkinson....Good Afternoon Gerry,

I was pleasently supprised to receive your e-mail. Going through your website brought back some fond memories of doing radio production in the basement of Thomas Hall and then later in the "new building" (I forget its name). I was just an RTF student. I do not remember being part of WRTI. I always like the production part never the engineering( I always pushed the wrong buttons) and I didn't like being on air.

I started at Temple in 1962, dropped out has various jobs...helped build The Theater of the Living Arts in '63 '64. ..lived in San Francisco....my sister Jane Brodsky Altschuler was attending SCAT she encouraged me to come back to Temple and enroll in SCAT....I know I still have tapes (no deck)...loved do TV production. Graduated in 1970...went to New York...worked as a gaffer ...AD...on tv commercials...Lew Klein called and asked if I was interested in becoming a producer/director at WNBF-TV (WBNG-TV) in Binghamton, New York. I jumped at the chance. It was a great place to do "everything". I directed the 6&11 news, p/d commercials...did many remote....sports...children's...religious...broadcasts

Built color TV studios and became program director for Triangle's CATV interests until they sold out to Newhouse. From 1974-78...produced and directed...medical and industrial programs and built a few more television studios. 1978 I started Catalyst Marketing Associates-advertising , marketing, visual communication. Since 1992 have Catalyst Companies (Marketing-Energy-Information)...mostly engaged in market, business development , sustainable energy and information research both Internet and online databases.

The only television production I do these days are video histories and taping my grandchildren.

After going through three prior majors at Temple...getting a degree in Communication-RTF was a tremendous experience. The support, mentoring and kindnesses( I spent a long time floundering about trying to find direction for my life at that time) I received from Dr. Gordon Gray were unmeasurable. (thank you for including his address) The basic foundations I learned have stood the test of time.

Thank you for putting up this website and good luck to you in your future endeavors.

Best regards,
Elliot Brodsky, RTF'70

This is the WRTI Old Gang Web Site.