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Advantage Productions & WHYY Adult Learning

Custom Training Solutions

WHYY Advantage creates customized solutions for your professional development needs. We provide high-end television production & post-production services to The Delaware Valley’s work force. WHYY Advantage also produces programs for self-paced computer-based learning, or as adjuncts to live classroom learning; recent clients include:

  • Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, New Employee Orientation with SoftAssist.
  • Philadelphia Parking Authority, Gold Star Training for Taxi Drivers with JEVS and SoftAssist.
  • Live via satellite lessons in leadership for Targeted Learning Corporation featuring nationally renowned thought leaders: Dr. Stephen Lundin (FISH!), Erin Brockovich (The Power of One), John Gray (Mars and Venus in the Workplace), Joni Daniels (Power Tools for Women), Anne Richards (Annual Briefing for Administrative Professionals), and Oren Harrari (Leadership Secrets of Colin Powell).


Other Client-Based Projects

  • Children & Families First, Fundraising videos
  • Temple University School of Communication and Theatre, What’s News
  • Central Philadelphia Development Corporation, Documentary Programs about Society Hill, Market Street East, The Waterfront, Expressways/Transportation, Avenue of the Arts, and Market Street West
  • The Boston Consulting Group & The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, CEO Exchange
  • GEO Productions, Medical Crossfire
  • Healthology, Case Studies with Doctors


Corporate Forums

WHYY Advantage is also a multimedia producer of corporate educational forums. Advantage produced the Adviser Forum 2004 for The Haverford Trust Company. The forum, anchored by Nightly Business Report’s Susie Gharib, featured General Electric CEO Jeffrey Immelt, Wharton Finance Professor Jeremy Siegel, and Senior Executives from Haverford Trust.


Fundraising Videos

Local non-profit organizations turn to WHYY Advantage for broadcast-quality video productions intended for prospective donors or to premier at annual dinners and fundraising campaign launches. Recent projects include tribute videos for the Caron Foundation and fundraising videos for Children’s and Families First of Delaware.


Real Life Leadership Lessons

Hear it straight from the CEO at one of WHYY Advantage’s CEO Forums. From HR to CEO featured Independence Blue Cross CEO Joseph Frick, and Wawa, Inc. CEO Howard Stoeckel in a candid conversation with Executive Recruiter Howard Fischer.


Media Services and Studio Rentals

The WHYY Studios are convenient for those organizations that are producing their own multimedia programs. Sanofi-Adventis, for example, used our facilities for a continuing medical education satellite conference.