The Museum of Broadcast Communications is located in Chicago, Illinois. Its mission 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." It is one of only three broadcast museums in America and home to the nation’s only Radio Hall of Fame. Chicago (officially named the City of Chicago) is the third largest city in the United States (after New York City and Los Angeles), with an official population of 2,896,016, as of the 2000 census. ...
The museum opened in Chicago's South Loop in 1987, and from 1992 to 2003 was located in the Chicago Cultural Center. In 2006, the museum will reopen in a new 70,000-square-foot facility on State and Kinzie Streets, adjacent to Harry Caray's Restaurant and the House of Blues Hotel, just north of the Chicago Loop. 1987 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1992 is a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2003 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, and also: The International Year of Freshwater The European Disability Year Events January January 1 - Luíz Inácio Lula Da Silva becomes the 37th President of Brazil. ... Dome Ceiling at the Chicago Cultural Center Located in Chicago, the landmark building known as the Chicago Cultural Center serves as the citys official reception venue where the Mayor has welcomed Presidents and royalty, diplomats and community leaders. ... 2006 is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The House of Blues is a chain of restaurants founded in 1992 by Dan Aykroyd and his friend (and Hard Rock Cafe founder) Isaac Tigrett in Cambridge, Massachusetts. ... The Loop is what locals call the downtown neighborhood of Chicago. ...
According to the museum's web site, in 2003, the Museum was Chicago’s fourteenth most visited cultural destination with over 200,000 visitors.
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The Museum of Broadcast Communications (http://www.museum.tv)
One is owned by the Smithsonian Museum in Washington and the other by Candice Bergen, daughter of ventriloquist Edgar Bergen, who used the McCarthy figure and that of Mortimer Snerd and others to insult and confound celebrities during radio broadcasts of the 1930s and 40s.
Those broadcasts were punctuated by intermission memoirs of the first World War orated by Col. Robert R. McCormick, who was the publisher of the Tribune, owner of WGN facilities, sponsor of the program and one-time aide to General Douglas McArthur.
MBC is also the site of the Broadcasting Hall of Fame, which since 1991 has been the place where tribute is paid to many of the most famous names in broadcasting, among them Jack Brickhouse, Don Imus, Eddie Cantor, Bob Hope, Paul Harvey, and Wally Phillips.
One of the earliest broadcastingmuseums in America, the Museum of BroadcastCommunications opened to the public at 800 S. Wells in 1987.
Bruce Dumont, a television and documentary producer for WBBM-TV, launched the museum both to preserve and to exhibit over 40 years of American radio and television history.
In June 1993 the Museum of BroadcastCommunications moved to the Chicago Cultural Center at the corner of Washington Street and Michigan Avenue.
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