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WPVI 'PRIMETIME WEEKEND' PROGRAM PROFILES HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Provides 7-Minute Video Tour of Facilities and Museum Holdings
CAMDEN, N.J. -- WPVI, the Channel 6 Philadelphia station of the ABC-TV network, on July 15 aired a 7-minute special that took viewers on a tour
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Local WPVI TV celebrities Gary Papa and Cecily Tynan hosted the 7-minute 'Primetime Weekend' program that toured the Camden County Historical Society's facilities and museum holdings.
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| of the Camden County Historical Society's three-building headquarters complex.
The segment on the weekly "Primetime Weekend" feature that spotlights historical and entertainment resources around the Delaware Valley, was hosted by Gary Papa and Cecily Tynan. It was the most in-depth look ever taken by a TV station of the Society and its restored 18th-century mansion, Pomona Hall; its library and its two-story museum.
The last third of the program was devoted to the Society's rich trove of historical artifacts and documents from RCA as explained by Fred Barnum. Mr. Barnum, the business development manager for Camden's L-3 Communications Systems and a Historical Society Trustee, is the author of His Master's Voice In America, a sprawling illustrated history of the Camden enterprise that began in 1901 as the Victor Talking Machine Company, then became RCA-Victor, which later became RCA. The company, whose facilities once took up a 50-acre swath of downtown Camden, played a pivotal role in the development of the technology and business of recorded music and television.
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