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A message from the MBC President
Massive selection of digital content a click away!
Museum.TV is happy to provide free access to over 8,500 hours of digitized radio and television content — and thousands of photos. We've now served more than 50,000 satisfied users.
This massive collection is provided for your research purposes thanks to the generous support of Cleversafe, a Chicago-based company that is revolutionizing the way the world thinks about storing data. They have provided the technology and expertise needed to provide this valuable service.
A quick registration is required for access. We do not share users' information with third parties.
Museum.TV is the online home for The Museum of Broadcast Communications (MBC) in Chicago, a non-profit educational institution
While access to our content is free, the expense of providing this service is quite costly. Tax-deductible donations to the MBC are welcome.
Happy streaming!
Bruce DuMont
Founder & President, MBC
The MBC's collections include:
- Television & Radio Programming: The archives house close to 100,000 hours and the entire collection is searchable via the online catalog. We have radio programs dating to the 1920s and television programming starting in the 1940s from every genre. It also includes over 6,000 local newscasts
- Commercials: Dating from the 1950s, our collection of commercials numbers over 12,000 and includes hundreds of award-winning ads. All are searchable via the online catalog.
- Images: Our collection contains over 3,000 photographs, including headshots, publicity photos, and candids. Nearly all have been scanned and are searchable via the online catalog. In addition, selected artifacts from our collection of over 2,000 items have been professionally photographed and these images are also available.
By providing access to these primary sources of history, we aim to educate, entertain and inspire those who visit our site. The American experience has been documented by broadcast media and the MBC aspires to make that experience come alive through our holdings.
To search the MBC Archives you must first register.
Once you have accessed the online catalog, you will be able to search each collection separately.
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