Museum of Broadcast Communications
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The Museum of Broadcast Communications (or MBC) 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.
The museum opened in Chicago's South Loop in 1987, and from 1992 to 2003 was located in the Chicago Cultural Center. In 2007, the museum will reopen in a new 70,000 square foot (7,000 m²) facility on State and Kinzie Streets, adjacent to Harry Caray's Restaurant and the House of Blues Hotel, just north of the Chicago Loop. The new museum building has undergone several delays in its development. It was originally scheduled to open in Spring 2005.
According to the museum's web site, in 2003, the Museum was Chicago’s fourteenth most visited cultural destination with over 200,000 visitors.
[edit] Encyclopedia of Television
The MBC maintains an on-line resource called "The Encyclopedia of Television" [1]. This includes original essays relating to historic moments and trends, major policy disputes and such topics as violence, tabloid television and the quiz show scandal. It also includes histories of major television networks as well as broadcasting systems around the world and is complemented by resource materials, photos and bibliographical information.
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