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The Museum of Classic Chicago Television (MCCTv) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit Illinois corporation and online archive museum designed for the age of the Internet.
The Museum of Classic Chicago Television (also known as FuzzyMemoriesTV) is an online museum dedicated to the preservation of Chicago television broadcasts.
By the mid-1950s, most of Chicago's major network television talents had been lured to the East or West Coasts. Emerging videotape technology meant that Chicago's studios were no longer necessary for live network broadcasts.
One Day In Chicago's Television History . It's late August. Sunday afternoon 1950. What's on television? In these days, stations do not broadcast 24/7.
Television Comes To Chicago- Part IV. THE 1950s... THE GREAT STATION SHUFFLE, EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION, & CHICAGO'S LOST UHF STATIONS. At the 1950 Chicagoland Fair, local television set manufacturer American Television set up DuMont manufactured cameras to allow people to see themselves on television. WGN-TV, also at the fair, set up a studio ...
1955- WTTW channel eleven, Chicago's first educational television station goes on the air using the former W9XZV/KS2XBS transmitter. 1956- WNBQ begins color telecasting. 1956- WBKB airs Shock Theatre for the first time.
Chicago's TV College was the first program in the country to enable students to receive college credit through “telecourses.” Televised courses lessened the burden on city colleges as enrollment soared during the late 1950s and 1960s.
