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It's finally the weekend which means we are just counting the days until our next Happy (half) hour! Catch up on last week's stream so you are ready for next week! Susy and Al will be back for Part 2 of their discussion on Presidential debates. Tuesdays at 5:30!
Hosted by Susy Schultz, Executive Director with Al Gini, Loyola University of Chicago
We've been in the Rock & Roll mindset for the last year at the MBC; and we are saddened by the passing of Icon Little Richard. May he rest in peace.
Pianist-singer behind “Tutti Frutti,” “Good Golly Miss Molly” and “Long Tall Sally” set the template that a generation of musicians would follow
Happy Teacher Appreciation Week! We love having school trips at the MBC and are so grateful for all the teachers who go above and beyond to enrich the lives of their students.
We know teaching looks a lot different these days. We are more grateful than ever to the folx getting creative for students of all ages. We recently learned of teachers using public TV and radio to reach students without internet. Amazing! Send the teachers in your life some love this week! To our members, donors, and followers who teach: THANK YOU!
In schools like LAUSD, districts are putting lessons on PBS, other TV channels for students who can't do online learning because they lack internet.
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with Al Gini, Professor - Loyola University of Chicago
TONIGHT! Tune in at 5:30 for MBC's Happy (half) Hour! Executive Director Susy Schultz be live on Youtube and Facebook with the wonderful Al Gini! learn more about our upcoming exhibit and how you can help!
Al Gini is a Professor of Business Ethics at the Quinlan School of Business at Loyola University Chicago. He is the co-founder and long-time Associate Editor of Business Ethics Quarterly, the journal of the Society for Business Ethics. For over twenty-seven years he was the Resident Philosopher on National Public Radio’s Chicago affiliate, WBEZ-FM. His books include: My Job My Self: Work and the Creation of the Modern Individual (Routledge, 2000); The Importance of Being Lazy: In Praise of Play, Leisure and Vacations (Routledge, 2003); Why It’s Hard to Be Good (Routledge, 2003); Seeking the Truth of Things (ACTA, 2010); The Ethics of Business with Alexei Marcoux (Rowman Littlefield, 2012); 10 Virtues of Outstanding Leaders with Ronald M. Green (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013).
May the 4th be with you! Any favorite Star Wars references that didn't make this list? #StarWarsDay
Here are 11 of the best TV show references to 'Star Wars' that any fan of the sci-fi saga will appreciate.
THIS TUESDAY: Our Happy Half Hour is back! This week, Susy Schultz will be discussing political debates with Al Gini! Tuesday at 5:30!
Al Gini is a Professor of Business Ethics at the Quinlan School of Business at Loyola University Chicago. He is the co-founder and long-time Associate Editor of Business Ethics Quarterly, the journal of the Society for Business Ethics. For over twenty-seven years he was the Resident Philosopher on National Public Radio’s Chicago affiliate, WBEZ-FM. His books include: My Job My Self: Work and the Creation of the Modern Individual (Routledge, 2000); The Importance of Being Lazy: In Praise of Play, Leisure and Vacations (Routledge, 2003); Why It’s Hard to Be Good (Routledge, 2003); Seeking the Truth of Things (ACTA, 2010); The Ethics of Business with Alexei Marcoux (Rowman Littlefield, 2012); 10 Virtues of Outstanding Leaders with Ronald M. Green (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013).
How'd you do on our word search from last week? Here's some great news: All of these classic shows are included in our new membership program! And there's more where that came from :) Become a member now at https://museum.tv/membership_levels.htm
These are all classic radio shows, but they also have something else in common ;)
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For nearly 40 years, the Museum of Broadcast Communications has been a cultural gem in the city of Chicago. Your support through your membership allows the MBC to continue our mission of providing lectures and programs, world-class exhibitions, and innovative online curriculum for all ages.
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Aw, man! We missed Superhero Day yesterday? How did you celebrate? Old Superman cartoons? a Marvel marathon? Or did you just honor the superheroes all around us? We'll be playing this playlist on repeat today in tribute to frontline workers, first responders and other essential superheroes who are caring for us during this pandemic.
For more, click here : http://www.youtube.com/WebOfTheSpidey
Our weekly streaming show: Join Susy Schultz, our executive director, and Carl Amari, producer/host of Hollywood 360 and WGN Radio Theatre, to talk about old-time radio and how in honor of radio's 100th anniversary we are giving away 70 shows for you to download with a new museum membership. (Membership=$49, Radio shows value=$140. Deal=great!)
Tonight! Join us on Facebook and YouTube at 5:30pm CDT for MBC's Happy (half) Hour! This week, Susy Schultz will be chatting with our friend and board member, Carl Amari. They'll be discussing our brand new membership program.
Carl Amari has been licensing classic radio shows from the owners and estates since 1990. He has amassed a library of 100,000+ master recordings. Amari broadcasts these golden-age of radio shows on his radio series, Hollywood 360, heard on 200+ radio stations coast-to-coast each week. Amari is also the Host/Producer of The WGN Radio Theatre heard each weekend on legendary Chicago radio station, WGN AM 720. He was selected as one of Chicago’s Very Own by Tribune Broadcasting and his business accomplishments have been highlighted in The Wall Street Journal, The Chicago Sun-Times, The Chicago Tribune, Variety, INC. 500, The Associated Press, Entertainment Weekly, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times and The New York Post.
Happy 87th Birthday to TV Icon, Carol Burnett! Carol and the millions who have watched her Emmy-winning variety series, ‘The Carol Burnett Show’, over the years may not have had that time together had it not been for the generosity of an anonymous supporter. Impressed with her talent, a $1,000 anonymous gift was given to her to start her journey in entertainment. It paid off with millions of laughs the comedian has elicited over the span of her 60-plus-year career!
Please enjoy an interview with Carol and WGN Radio host (and Chairman of the MBC Board of Directors) David Plier.
LINK:
https://wgnradio.com/dave-plier/celebrating-the-87th-birthday-of-tv-icon-carol-burnett/
This puzzle contains titles of classic radio shows, but these shows have something special in common. Bet you can't guess what it is ;) We'll reveal the answer next week!
These are all classic radio shows, but they also have something else in common ;)
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She burst onto the scene with an Oscar-nominated performance in the 1960 film “The Dark at the Top of the Stairs” and went on to a long career in film, on television and on the stage.
Happy Earth Day!! Today is the 50th anniversary of the first Earth Day in 1970! When Senator Gaylord Nelson announced his idea for colleges to host "teach-ins" about the threats to our environment, national media jumped on the story, which inspired thousands more people across the country to get involved! That night, Walter Cronkite hosted a CBS News Special titled "Earth Day: A Question of Survival." Take a look! How are you celebrating #EarthDay2020?
http://earthweek1970.org - Original broadcast of CBS News Special Report with Walter Cronkite about the first Earth Day, 1970. Also known as Earth Week 1970.
Good morning and THANK YOU to the Rotary Club of Wilmette Harbor for starting the morning with our Executive Director Susy Schultz, who was talking about our upcoming exhibit and curriculum "The Great Debates: The broadcast industries impact on our presidential elections." Special thanks to Rotary chapter President Jim Waite and member Beth DeWall for the invitation and kind introduction. (And it was amazing to hear about Rotary International's global work on irradicating polio and how the project is also building a healthcare structure to help the fight against COVID-19. Thank you Rotary!) If you'd like Susy to talk to your organization — she has ZOOM and will be happy to appear virtually on your screen!)
See you at 5:30! :)
Today marks the first 4:20 (April 20th) since the legalization of marijuana in Illinois. (#ICYMI 4:20 was used as code starting in the 1970s for smoking. Below is a link to how it started and evolved.)
In honor of this first, here's the first marijuana commercial to appear on a major network, which aired in 2014. It was for a New Jersey-based medical marijuana company.
Stay safe in your celebrations today, Chicago! And for those wondering about the date 4/20, we found this article helpful in debunking the myths: https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/20/health/420-weed-day-origin-trnd/index.html
First Marijuana Commercial Debuts on Major Network produced by MarijuanaDoctors.com, the only service that connects patients with physicians for medical mari...
Hey all! This is Susy Schultz, executive director of the museum. We are switching our LIVE show to 5:30 pm Tuesdays (that’s tomorrow) to be able to have the bandwidth to support a live stream. It will be our Tuesday Museum Happy Half Hour! Here’s me talking about what we will be discussing. See you tomorrow.
Our next exhibit will examine how television has played a role in political campaigns! You can check out some related content on the archive page of our website (www.museum.tv). Like this compilation of NBC coverage of the 1968 Democratic National Convention:
TODAY IN TV HISTORY: "Rod Brown of the Rocket Rangers" debuts on CBS in 1953. The kids show featured Academy award Winner Cliff Robertson, hear him talk about the show below!
For his full interview, see http://www.emmytvlegends.org/interviews/people/cliff-robertson
In times like this, TV must do what it does best- evolve! The late night shows — all of them — are trying to do that right now. Are you watching The Late Show with Stephen Colbert? Jimmy Kimmel Live? The Daily Show with Trevor Noah? The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon? Are you liking the switch to their "from home" shows? Are the jokes as funny without a laugh track? Are you watching or going to bed early?
Forced to improvise, hosts have returned with radically stripped down productions made from home. Can they keep it feeling fresh — and their kids out of the frame?
Have you tuned in to any of Burton's readings? You can find them on twitter at @levarbuton! And while you're on twitter, you might as well give us a follow (@museumTV) as well ;)
Star of the classic children’s show ‘Reading Rainbow,’ Levar Burton, has said that he would like to help provide a distraction for families during these difficult times by livestreaming himself reading some family-friendly books.
It's only Tuesday? :( Take a #WFH break and search for some sitcoms!
A mix of old and new favorites! (minus a few, of course. Some of our faves were too long for the word limit.)
Good morning, Friends of The MBC! We have some good news and bad news. The bad news is Susy Schultz is sick with a case of vertigo and will not be able to do the 1pm facebook live today. The good news is, her illness is not covid-19 related and she is feeling very lucky and grateful for that! For today, the facebook live is cancelled.
Since Susy was going to discuss our upcoming exhibit, which will explore the impact television has on political campaigns; we thought we'd share this short documentary produced by The MBC in 1985! WBBM-TV newsman Bill Kurtis hosts this special look at the first "Great Debate" between Senator John F Kennedy and Vice President Richard Nixon.
This specially produced documentary, hosted by WBBM-TV newsman Bill Kurtis was presented at the MBC hosted 25th Anniversary of the Presidential Debate betwee...
For the first time in history, ‘Saturday Night Live’ was recorded remotely from all the cast member’s homes. When strict social distancing efforts were put in place to combat the coronavirus, it looked as though Saturday Night Live’s 45th season had come to an abrupt end. To the surprise of everyone, the show announced it would air a brand new episode, but it would look a little different. After a title sequence in which the cast and bandmembers are shown in their individual homes, we are greeted by the night’s “host”, Tom Hanks. Fresh off his own Covid-19 isolation, “America’s dad” admits it feels both good and weird to be hosting from home.
Tom Hanks opens a special Saturday Night Live as host from his home, where he talks about recovering from COVID-19, does an "audience" Q&A and pays tribute to essential workers.
'Peter Cottontail,' the jazzy cartoon short about that 'cool little bunny' giving baskets full of Easter joy, has not been available to the public since its original airing in the 1950s on WGN-TV’s 'Garfield Goose & Friends'. Produced by UPA (United Productions of America), the same production company as black and white holiday short 'Frosty the Snowman' and released at the same time as ‘Hardrock, Coco & Joe' and 'Suzy Snowflake‘, 'Peter Cottontail' is a true classic. The short provides a great example of limited animation and design, while exemplifying the idea of budget-conscious entertainment in early television. Limited animation is a process in the overall technique of traditional animation of creating animated cartoons that does not redraw entire frames but variably reuses common parts between frames.
To purchase this DVD in a digitally remastered format, visit The Museum of Broadcast Communications store at museum.tv!
https://wgnradio.com/dave-plier/classic-wgn-tv-animated-easter-short-peter-cottontail/
“Peter Cottontail,” the jazzy cartoon short about that “cool little bunny” giving baskets full of Easter joy, has not been available to the public since its original airing …
If you were watching late night comedy in 1980, were you team 'Fridays' or team 'Saturday Night Live'? 'Fridays' premiered 40 years ago today and featured Larry David and Michael Richards! 'SNL' returns tonight, produced from remote locations! https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/saturday-night-live-return-coronavirus-1234576054/
Tonight at 8 p.m. open your windows, turn on 97.1 The Drive FM (our media partner for "Stay Tuned") and sing out loud the song "Eye of the Tiger." (Friday 4/10)
This 1982 hit was written by Survivor guitarist Frankie Sullivan and keyboardist Jim Peterik. Here's the original video and here's The Drive's sing-along page with the lyrics. https://wdrv.com/chicago-sing-along/
Let me hear ya!!
Watch the official music video for "Eye Of The Tiger" by Survivor Listen to Survivor: https://Survivor.lnk.to/listenYD Subscribe to the official Survivor You...
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Hosted by Susy Schultz, Executive Director with Al Gini, Professor - Loyola University of Chicago
Our weekly streaming show: Join Susy Schultz, our executive director, and Carl Amari, producer/host of Hollywood 360 and WGN Radio Theatre, to talk about old-time radio and how in honor of radio's 100th anniversary we are giving away 70 shows for you to download with a new museum membership. (Membership=$49, Radio shows value=$140. Deal=great!)
Hey all! This is Susy Schultz, executive director of the museum. We are switching our LIVE show to 5:30 pm Tuesdays (that’s tomorrow) to be able to have the bandwidth to support a live stream. It will be our Tuesday Museum Happy Half Hour! Here’s me talking about what we will be discussing. See you tomorrow.
TODAY IN TV HISTORY - 3/19/1953 - The Academy Awards came to television for the first time. Bob Hope's Oscars opening monologue, introduced by Charles Brackett.
TODAY IN TV HISTORY: 3/18/1981 - The first episode of "The Greatest American Hero (William Katt)" aired on ABC.
It was great having TV, radio and history enthusiast Bob in the studio today with Tony from Lossano and Friends!
Yes!!! The band American English is in the house! They are commemorating the Beatles first appearance on U.S. TV, The Ed Sullivan Show. Great tribute band to the Fab Four during our #BeatlesBash weekend
From Our Archives: While we continue to celebrate the lasting legacy of Fred Silverman, enjoy this excerpt of the 2013 interview conducted by MBC Founder, Bruce Dumont. Click below to hear about how Silverman got his start right here in Chicago.
Katie Kadan live at the MBC!
Look at this crowd for Katie Kadan! 🤩 The interview with LeeAnn Trotter is underway!!
Want a preview of what you will see at "Stay Tuned: Rock on TV?" Check this out and then come on by!
Looking for something fun to do in Chicago? Check out the exhibit "Stay Tuned: Rock on TV" now at the Museum of Broadcast Communications!
The MBC Celebrates 40 Years of Rich Koz as ‘Svengoolie’ on Saturday, October 26, 2019!
The MBC Celebrates 40 Years of Rich Koz as ‘Svengoolie’ - October 26! Tickets at www.museum.tv
Today is your last chance to see “Louder Than Words: Rock, Power & Politics!” 🎸👊🗳Open Today from 10am to 6pm. #museum #chicago #exhibit #rocknroll #mbcltw #politics #chicagomuseum #museumtv #finalday
MUST CLOSE TOMORROW! Come see “Louder Than Words: Rock, Power & Politics” before it leaves Chicago! #mbcltw #museumtv #rockandroll #museumexhibit #chicago #chicagomuseum
Louder Than Words: Rock, Power & Politics - MUST CLOSE SUNDAY, AUGUST 25! See it before it’s gone! #mbcltw #museum #museumexhibit #chicago #rockandroll #chicagomuseum
The Air & Water Show might be delayed until this afternoon...but we are open! Stop by and see “Louder Than Words” before it closes next Sunday (8/25)!
Looking for something to do today? Stop by and see us at the MBC! “Louder Than Words” closes August 25th!
On August 6, 1998 Jack Brickhouse left Chicago for the big ball park in the sky. The best known voice this side of Harry Carey of Chicago sports, Jack came from Peoria to Chicago at the behest of Bob Elson, another iconic voice of Chicago sports. Here is a short clip of Jack doing what he did best- talking baseball. From the 1960 live WGN-TV telecast of Don Cardwell's no-hitter.
Today in TV History: 8/1/1981 - MTV made its debut at 12:01am. The first video to be shown was "Video Killed the Radio Star" by the Buggles.
You may not know that Don Meier was born 104 years ago and with his recent passing, Chicago has lost another of its true television pioneers. He joined WBKB after the war and while there learned of a series concept being pitched by Lincoln Park Zoo Director Marlin Perkins to WBKB general manager Bill Eddy. Meier moved to the new WNBQ in 1949 where with Perkins developed a program called "Zoo Parade," and with Perkins and WNBQ staffer Jim Hurlbut (later to moderate "City Desk") serving as hosts, entertained the whole family. "Zoo Parade," which was sometimes sponsored by the Mutual of Umaha insurance company morphed in 1963 into "Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom" becoming a NBC Sunday evening staple until 1974. Most major markets continued running the series in first run syndication until 1988.
🎸👊🗳 = Louder Than Words - at @museumtv only until August 25! Run don’t walk... #rocknroll #mbcltw #museumtv #chicago #exhibit #rockhall #chicagoexhibit
Check out over 175 Artifacts from the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame...only at @MuseumTV! #rock #museum #exhibit #mbcltw #rockhall
This year would have marked the 100th birthday of Chicago's beloved Ray Rayner. Here's Ray in 1967, along with the host of WBKB's "Passage To Adventure" Jim Stewart, in a sketch from the "9th Annual Chicago Emmy Awards." Originally telecast in color on WMAQ-TV.
We recently lost David Hedison at the young age of 92. Active in the business as late as 2017, David is best remembered for two roles- on television- Captain Lee Crane of the SSRN Seaview in the Irwin Allen ABC-TV series "Voyage To The Bottom of the Sea" and on film- 1958's "The Fly," the iconic horror classic in which Hedison brings everyone to the edge of their seats during one of the most gripping death scenes in the cinema- "Help Me!" The MBC sends its condolences to the Hedison family.
Don’t let a little rain ruin your day...if you’re looking for something to do indoors stop by the MBC!
Some will remember her as part of the ensemble cast of the daytime gothic drama "Dark Shadows." Others will remember her as Violet in "Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory." Denise Nickerson died after a year of suffering as a result of a stroke. Here is a clip from "Dark Shadows" showing the amount of talent someone could possess at such a young age. The MBC sends its deepest condolences to her family. May she rest in peace.
Arte Johnson has left us at the age of 90. Best known as various characters within "Rowan & Martin's Laugh In," Johnson's resume also included guest shots on such series as "The Dick Van Dyke Show," "Dr Kildare," and more recently "Justice League Unlimited," where in 2005 he was heard as the voice of "Virman Vunderbar." Here is Johnson as a radio DJ who's about to receive his comeuppance in the "Night Gallery" teleplay "The Flip Side of Satan." Rest in peace and thanks for the laughs.
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