Gary Axelbank is the host and senior producer of BRONXNET's live television telephone-talk show, BronxTalk PrimeTime. BronxTalk PrimeTime has been aired weekly on BRONXNET since its debut in October, 1994.

In addition, Mr. Axelbank currently serves as the Director of Public Relations for the Bronx campus at Monroe College.

He is the television play-by-play announcer for Monroe College basketball, the CUNY Athletic Conference, Lehman College, the Hoops in the Sun Basketball Tournament, the National Paddleball Association, and the GHI Bronx Pro Tennis Classic. Additionally, he has anchored sports and served as a news reporter for BRONXNET's nightly news program.

Mr. Axelbank has been a producer of news features for WNBC-TV. He has also been a producer in the WNBC sports department where his duties included coverage of major sports teams for the 5, 6, and 11 o'clock newscasts on NBC's flagship station.

In 1996, Mr. Axelbank produced a bi-monthly cable television program, Everywhere Every Day, for the U.S. Postal Service that airs on 35 cable stations throughout the New York metro area.

Prior to joining BRONXNET in 1993, Mr. Axelbank was the Director of Student and Market Development at the Center for the Media Arts, a media training school. He also served for seven years as the Dean of the school's Broadcast Division.

Mr. Axelbank has been a faculty member of the Dept. of Mass Communications at Lehman College, Bronx, NY and an adjunct lecturer of popular music for Mercy College in Dobbs Ferry, New Yorker. As the faculty advisor of the radio club at Mercy College, Mr. Axelbank helped initiate the campus radio station.

Mr. Axelbank began his career as a disc jockey as WETT, Ocean City, Maryland. He also worked as a DJ at WSEA, Georgetown, Delaware and WDHA, Dover, New Jersey. For two years he was the program director at WRNW, Briar cliff Manor, where he succeeded Howard Stern.

Mr. Axelbank graduated from De Witt Clinton High School in 1971, received his BA from Lehman College in 1975, and certification from Announcer Training Studios in 1976.

Mr. Axelbank is 48 years old and resides in Van Cortlandt Village in the Bronx, New York with his wife and two children.