The Buffalo Broadcasters Association Board of Directors   Chairman Don Angelo WGRZ-TV (ret.) A 45 year veteran of the broadcast industry who spent the first decade of his career as a news reporter in several northeast markets, then moved to sales and management and operated his own radio station in Michigan. Don served in various management positions at WUTV, Sherwin-Greenburg, WNYB, The Buffalo Sabres, TCI Cable, WNED, and WGRZ. Don is a co-founder and current Chairman of the Board of the Buffalo Broadcasters Association. In 2007 he founded Angelo Media Services and most recently formed  Nickel City Media, LLC which was created to explore new opportunities and acquisitions in broadcast media.   President Dave "DG" Gillen WIVB-TV Started a radio station at Grand Island High School in 1971 that lead to his first job in radio in 1973 at WEBR while still in high school. He also worked part time WGRQ, WACJ and WNYS. Was Music Director  WKSE, Asst. PD, then became Program Director at WMJQ,  In 2000, Dave shifted gears to take a position as Account Executive at WJYE and was a Senior Account Executive with WYRK until 2007 when he accepted a position as Account Executive at WIVB/WNLO. In 2010, he was promoted to Director of New Business Development at the stations.  Dave has been on the BBA Board since 2004 and is the current President of The Buffalo Broadcasters Association.   Vice President Suzanne Chamberlain University at Buffalo Suzanne is a public relations/communications professional with 30 years experience. Former reporter/anchor at WGRZ and WJKS Jacksonville and manager of Ralph Nader’s low-power TV station in Buffalo. She has pursued teaching, training and facilitation opportunities and has served on various community and professional boards and currently the Senior Director of External Affairs at the University at Buffalo.   Secretary/Treasurer Herb Flemming Flemming Communications Herb worked at WJSL, WDCX, and WEBR-WBCE, which was owned by the Courier Express and later purchased by Bill McKibben. The Courier, decided to build a cable tv system and Herb re-joined the Courier where he helped build and then market the system. It was in this time frame that Herb began a 17 year relationship with NBC Sports, working weekend football games. After the Courier Cable TV system was built, Herb joined Tops Markets to form an in-house agency that handled their radio, tv and P-R. After twenty years with Tops Markets, he shifted his focus toward public relations and development work, and opened his own shop in 2001. He also is a real estate agent with Metro Horohoe Leimbach Realtors. One of the original board members at the organization's founding, Herb has served as Secretary-Treasurer for the past 10 years.   Directors   Jackie Albarella Albarella Media Jackie began her career in the theater, starting as an actress. Jackie was a sound and lighting designer and technician on the road for major rock tours throughout the 70?s. In 1977, 3 days before the blizzard, she was hired by WKBW TV as their first female engineer. She spent three days at the station with “the guys”  because no one else could make it in. In addition to engineering, Jackie was the on air switcher and produced a documentary on the Mentally Retarded that won a NYS Broadcasters award, and helped propel her into producing. In1979, she left to become the Associate Producer of PM Magazine at CH4 and in 1980, left to form her own video company. The first program aired on WNEDTV for two years, a live, daily talk show for teenagers called “Open Season”. Jackie was the host and the Ex Producer. She produced and directed many broadcast programs, including several gardening series for Comcast and Cablevision, and USA Network which were shot on location throughout the country and in Europe. She won national awards for documentaries and corporate programming. She still does production, some engineering, is an adjunct at Canisius in their Digital Media Dept and her clients include Fisher Price, Kraft Foods and Xerox. Currently Jackie produces VOD programming, corporate pieces, and garden reporter for WGRZ on Daybreak Saturday.   Pat Feldballe Pat Feldballe Productions Pat began his career in broadcasting in 1972 at WBFO. Moving from there to on air and production jobs at WBUF, WGRQ, WGR, and WKBW, leaving in 1982 to begin applying production skills as a free lance producer/voice talent.  Today, he's still at it, combining voice work and production with teaching at NCCC.  As a member of the Buffalo Broadcasters Board of Directors, Pat is trying to increase the awareness and community presence of the BBA through the development of a series of half hour cable tv shows.   Bob Koshinski Niagara County Community College With 34 years experience as a broadcaster and communications specialist, Koshinski began his career in 1976 as a news reporter and night time jock at WLVL. He moved to television in 1977 at Niagara Frontier Cable TV and did restaurant and entertainment features on PM Magazine on WGRZ-TV in 1981. In 1983,  Koshinski took a position at WKBW-TV as a sports producer, then as a reporter/anchor and in 1989 as that stations 2nd Sports Director, replacing the retired Rick Azar. In 1991 Koshinski accepted a position as Program Director and Executive Producer for the new Empire Sports Network, becoming Vice President/General Manager in 1997. In 2000, Bob became the GM of WNSA-FM after it was purchased by Adelphia Communications. In 2005, after the Adelphia bankruptcy forced the sale of WNSA and the closing of Empire Sports, Koshinski became a multi-media specialist. Bob accepted the position as Erie County Communications Director while creating several local web sites and served as host of the Buffalo Bills radio network post-game show. In 2008, Koshinski became Media Specialist for New York State Senator William Stachowski and in 2009 accepted a position as Public Relations Director of Niagara County Community College where he is today.   Rich Newberg WIVB-TV Rich Newberg is Chairman of the Archive Task Force, coordinating the BBA’s efforts to digitize the Buffalo TV news film from the 1960’s and ‘70’s.  Rich is WIVB-TV’s Senior Correspondent and has been at the station for 32 years.  His documentaries have won 10 New York Emmy Awards.  Rich is also a Regional Vice President/New York Chapter of the National Television Academy.  He was inducted into the Buffalo Broadcaster’s Hall of Fame in 2006.   Heidi Raphael Greater Media Heidi is the VP of Corporate Communication at Greater Media, parent company of 23 AM and FM radio stations in the Boston, Charlotte, Detroit, New Jersey and Philadelphia markets. She joined Greater Media in 1996 as Marketing Director of WRIF-FM in Detroit, and served in various positions until her appointment as VP of Corporate Communication in 2008. Heidi began her radio career in Buffalo  in the mid-eighties, as an on-air news personality at WHTT-FM and WECK-AM, then as Marketing Director at WGRF-FM for five years, before accepting a position at WMMS-FM in Cleveland. Raphael was recognized among the "50 Most Influential Women in Radio" by Radio Ink Magazine from 2006-2010, and named among the "Top 25 Women to Watch in Sales & Marketing" by AWRT in 2009. Heidi serves on a number of boards and does weekly voice-over work for the Niagara Frontier Radio Reading Service. The Williamsville resident received her BS degree in Media Communications from Medaille College and a Master of Arts degree in Organizational Management from the University of Phoenix.   Steve Reszka Anscombe Broadcasting Group Steve Reszka has extensive media experience from both sides of the aisle.  He currently owns Reszka & Associates, a national marketing communication and entertainment booking firm based in Buffalo.  He is also co-owner of WSIR-AM in Winter Haven, Florida, where within three years he led the station from being silent to #2 in the rating in Polk County (the home of Disney World).  His media background includes stations in Buffalo and Syracuse in the late 70s.  He made the move to television news at stations throughout Texas, Oklahoma, Mississippi and Alabama during the 1980s.  He was also a freelance reporter for NBC Sports and ABC News.   Ron Rice WHTT-FM (ret.) Ron's career spans over thirty years in the Broadcast Industry including radio, television, and cable. Managed and directed WHTT to become the number one oldies station in the country. Began his career as an account executive WBEN Radio in1968, moving to WBEN-TV in 1972 and back to WBEN-AM as Sales Manager in 1975. Became General Manager of WACJ in 1979 and move to Cablescope in 1982 as DOS. In 1984 became VP/General Manager of WNYS and transitioned it to WHTT. In 1997, Ron began doing independent advertising and media placement. He was inducted into the BBA Hall of Fame in 2007 and implemented the first annual Buffalo Broadcasters Association 5k run in 2009.   Lois Ringle WUTV-TV (ret.) After graduating from the University of Miami, Lois Ringle began her career in broadcasting at WCKT, Miami, Florida.  With a few years experience, Lois moved to New York City where she worked on both the Ed Sullivan and Arthur Godfrey shows.  Upon coming to Western New York due to family illness, she joined the staff at WBEN-AM-FM-TV - as producer of such live programs at Breakfast at AM&A’s and Meet the Millers. Later, after her children were born and partially raised, Ringle returned to full-time work as Program Director of WUTV-TV.  Ringle was presented with a Distinguished Broadcasters Award in 2000, the same year she was inducted into the BBA Hall of Fame.  Lois has been an active member of the Board of Directors since 2005   Mark Scott WBFO-FM Mark has been at WBFO since 1981,as News Director from 1981 through 1986 and 1992 to present. A 1977 graduate of Saint Bonaventure University, he received a BA in Journalism. Mark was News Director of WMNS Radio in Olean from 1977 to 1981. Mark has been board member since 2007.   Lee Tulumello Ell-Tee Associates Lee's broadcast Career began as a disc jockey during her freshman year at Niagara University’s radio station.  When she transferred over to Canisius College to finish up her B.A. in Communications, she interned at WGRZ, then at WKBW-TV where she was immediately hired and worked her way through the station as Assistant Program Director, Production Assistant and Co-Producer of AM/Buffalo. Lee took a hiatus from Broadcasting (and Buffalo) and moved to Tampa. A couple of years later she returned to Buffalo and immediately joined WUTV as Assistant Program Director/Assistant to the General Manager.  Soon after she was promoted into corporate headquarters in NYC to serve as Administration for Citadel Communications Company’s national broadcast group.  Several years later Lee was offered a position with HDM (an international advertising agency) and was relocated to Los Angeles where she spent 6 years working on national print, radio and television ad spots, in many capacities, for Nintendo, Lexus, Pacific Bell, Air New Zealand and many other large companies.  Lee then branched out into the freelance project world, in development and production for NBC, Turner Broadcasting, Fox Sports (to name a few) and landed in management at Sony Pictures Imageworks. In 2003 she moved back to Buffalo and jumped into several freelance opportunities, including a marketing project for Adelphia.  She has since co-founded purecontemporary.com (an online magazine) and recently launched the first phase of her website, InTheAirport.com.  Lee has served as Floor Manager of the BBA Hall of Fame induction dinner since 2007.   Don Yearke WIVB-TV (ret.) Don Yearke has a lifetime of experience in many areas of radio and television. He worked as a DJ and in news at WUSJ, WNIA, WEBR, WBNY & WKBW. He was a reporter, producer and photographer at WKBW-TV for many years before joining WBEN-TV/WIVB-TV as a photojournalist and was chief videographer at WIVB for 18 years before retirement. He still works for CH-4 as a freelance photojournalist. Don has been an active member of the Board of the Buffalo Broadcasters Association and is involved in the archiving project. He is a Past-President of the local chapter of Sigma Delta Chi. He is a Hall of Fame member.

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