Welcome To The Museum of Classic Chicago Television A 501(c)(3) Non-Profit Organization
The Museum of Classic Chicago Television (MCCTv) is an online museum designed for the age of the Internet.
Our Mission: To further the acquisition, preservation, exhibition, education, and nostalgic enjoyment of Classic Chicago Television broadcasts.
Check out the Screening Room for over 3000 classic clips and commercials spanning roughly the past 40 years. You can also learn about the history of Chicago TV as well as sharing memories with others by visiting our forums and posting comments.
We reached our goal! Thanks to the 23 people (or so) that donated for this specific fundraiser. (that works out to be only $21 per person averaged out - even though some donated 5 times that - see, it doesn't taken much if everyone can chip in something!)
Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on how you look at it) we just got in about 14 more 2" reels to transfer,... so we're going to need, uh...significantly more money. (In case you don't know, 2" Quad videotape is very expensive to transfer - the only option is sending it out to someone who specializes in it)
If anyone was planning on donating but hasn't yet, please still do. We are going to need it, that's for sure!
As you know, this museum is a 501(c)(3) non-profit which relies soley on donations. Funds have dwindled lately, and we need about $500 for expenses related to transferring a number of 2" quad videotapes containing some rare and old WCIU-TV programming, such as the Kiddie-A-Go-Go clip from 1969 you saw recently.
If everyone that visited this site daily (based on the number of hits) donated a dollar, we would reach our goal. I know this is not realistic, but I am asking those of you who CAN donate something, to please do, to the best of your financial ability. Since this is a specifc fundraiser, we are using ChipIn.com to keep track of progress toward our goal. Please click on the ChipIn! button on the widget on the main page in order to donate via PayPal through ChipIn.com (no personal information is released to ChipIn other than the amount you donate)
To those of you who CAN afford more, let me take a page from NPR's pledge drives - is FuzzyMemories worth a dollar a day to you? Then how about considering making a $365 donation? Just a thought. (only if you can afford it)
Thank you for the help. More money = more tapes and more memories we are able to save and enjoy. :-)
Also . . . Box 466, Southfield, MI 48037 was the Detroit area mailing address for all Brookville and T.E.J. record offers. If this aired in the Washington, D.C. market, the mailing address for this would've been Box 9985, Washington, DC 20015. Does anyone know which mailing addresses for such releases would've been in different markets (i.e. Chicago, New York, L.A. - I seem to remember a box at Grand Central Station, zip 10017, for NYC)?
Yeah. The safety tips were from The All-New Popeye Hour. Since the syndication package for Popeye, at the time, included the shorts from The All-New Popeye Hour, the safety tips were offered to the syndicators to use if they wished to. WFLD opted to use them to make ad-break safety messages.
Thanks Jen! Your dad was a great sportscaster and is still sorely missed! Being a big Jen fan, glad to see your still around with your Trib column I noticed the other day. Thought "Hey! that looks like Jenniffer Wiegel!" What do ya know it is. :')
Hope you make it back on TV or now the web, if your heart so desires.
