Lew Klein is the past president and one of the founders of the National Association of Television Program Executives (NATPE). The retired Gateway Communications Inc. president was also the director of television programming for the six television stations that comprised the Triangle Group. Lew Klein’s work includes more than twenty years with WFIL-TV (now WPVI-TV), Philadelphia, where he was executive producer of American Bandstand, hosted by Dick Clark, as well as the award-winning Frontiers of Knowledge and College News Conference, telecast nationally by the American Broadcasting Company. He also developed and produced live television programs for national distribution, including Here Come the Doodletown Pipers, Dear Julia Mead, Stump the Stars and produced the Phillies baseball telecasts for fourteen years.