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The Museum of Broadcast Communications (MBC) is an American museum, the stated mission of which is "to collect, preserve, and present historic and contemporary radio and television content as well as educate, inform and entertain through our archives, public programs, screenings, exhibits, publications and online access to our resources."
This sixty-minute variety show was created and hosted by Jack L. Cooper who was known as the first African American radio broadcaster. [2] The All-Negro Hour first premiered on November 3, 1929, on World Stage Battery Company , a white-owned radio station in Chicago, and ran until 1935. [1]
The program aired from The Center Theater in Chicago, and people used to stand outside in the snow and cold waiting to get in. The National Barn Dance was the only known radio program to charge an admission fee. ABC made two moves that ultimately led to National Barn Dance's slow demise. The first was the cancellation of the network broadcast ...
Sold to private interests in 1966 and again to Amway in 1977, Mutual purchased two radio stations in New York and Chicago in the 1980s, only to sell them after Amway's interest in broadcasting began to fade. Radio syndicator Westwood One acquired Mutual in 1985 and NBC Radio in 1987, consolidating the networks operations. Throughout the 1990s ...
Liberty was founded by American radio broadcaster Gordon McLendon, and broadcast live recreations of Major League Baseball games by following the action via Western Union ticker reports. Progressive Broadcasting System (PBS), launched September 4, 1950. PBS's goal was to cater to smaller radio stations that hadn't yet affiliated with NBC, CBS ...
Insull moved his stations into Chicago's Strauss Building, [10] and then to his own Civic Opera Building. [11] In 1931, WENR was sold to the National Broadcasting Company for approximately $1 million. [12] The station became part of NBC's Blue Network. [13] NBC moved WENR's studios to the Merchandise Mart, its Chicago headquarters. [13]
American Radio Archives and Museum offers one of the largest collections of radio broadcasting in the United States and in the world. [12] It has a collection of 23,000 radio and TV scripts, 10,000 photographs, 10,000 books on radio history, and 5,000 audio recordings.
American Radio Networks: A History (McFarland, 2009) Cox, Jim. Radio After the Golden Age: The Evolution of American Broadcasting Since 1960 (McFarland, 2013) Craig, Douglas B. Fireside Politics: Radio and Political Culture in the United States, 1920–1940 (2005) Dimmick, John, and Daniel G. McDonald.