New Broadcast Museum To Open In Cleveland

[JNight]

On June 14th, 2008, the Baseball Heritage Museum in downtown Cleveland is proud to announce the opening of a brand new Broadcast Museum on June 14th, 2008 from 11 AM to 4 PM. The event will take place with a "Media Day" and is opened to the public as well. The two museums are located in the Colonial Marketplace Arcade Building at 530 Euclid Avenue. (Due to construction on Euclid-enter on the Prospect Ave. side since Euclid is closed).
The museum will feature an early baseball broadcast booth, a 1950's radio studio, and a vintage family room with a working Philco radio to show the public how the broadcast went from the ballpark to the studio and to your home. Also included is a 1960's and 70's studio, a vintage transmitter room, a early newsroom with working UPI teletype machine, a tribute area to the Thundering Buzzard from the 1970's, and lots of tee-shirts, banners, posters, photos fill the walls of this new museum.
On opening day, John Gorman will be signing and selling his new Buzzard Book, and Murray Saul will be on hand selling his CD. Also George Shuba will be there with a photo display of photos he shot for WHK and the Beatles, WIXY concerts, and WKYC photos, and these will also be on sale to the public.
We are expecting a ton of Northeast area radio personalities and news people from our past. Along with live coverage on WKYC TV 3 News that morning. This all ties in with the Baseball Heritage Museum and is free to the public.
Some of the special guest include Ted Hallaman, Ted Alexander, Billy Bass, Larry Morrow, John Webster, Ken Courtright, Bill Gordon, Jim Syzmanski, Bill Ward, Scott Howitt, Ravenna Maceli, Candy Lee Korn, Joe Mosbrook, Tim Phillips, Freddie James, Mary Holt-first African/American woman DJ in Cleveland for WJW/WJMO, Joyce Halasa, Suzy Peters, Carl Reese along with many others. Plus the 1948 Indians game will be broadcast through the museum wall speakers with Mel Allen calling the game. There is also a special photo section in honor of Cleveland's first African/American DJ "Walkin' Talkin' Bill Hawkins. Hope to see you there- "Baseball and Broadcasting-What a Tradition"

 

[johnbasalla]

Candy Lee Korn, known as Candy Lee, was a child radio and TV personality in the 1950s. She was a Baldwin-Wallace College student in the early 1960s. She was on the B-W radio station, WBWC - 88.3 FM , which is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. As part of the 50th celebration, the station aired a 20 minute portion from one of her shows from 1961. Candy Lee must be the only WBWC broadcaster who was in TV and radio before coming to the radio station.

 

[VODood]

Candy Lee Korn, known as Candy Lee, was a child radio and TV personality in the 1950s. She was a Baldwin-Wallace College student in the early 1960s. She was on the B-W radio station, WBWC - 88.3 FM , which is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. As part of the 50th celebration, the station aired a 20 minute portion from one of her shows from 1961. Candy Lee must be the only WBWC broadcaster who was in TV and radio before coming to the radio station.

I know a John Basalla. Has a son Michael. We both grew up on Wagar Avenue in Lakewood.

Are you the John Basalla from WBWC?

 

[johnbasalla]

Hi. Yes I am John Basalla from WBWC.

 

[IBDO]

Will have to wait and see if this happens. Might be a good idea

 

[johnbasalla]

I went to the grand opening and had a wonderful time. Got to talk to John Gorman, Murray Saul, Ted Alexander, John Webster and others. I found John Gorman to be very interesting and informative to talk to.
Ted Alexander answered some technical questions that I had and we talked about his days on WELW when they did oldies a few years back. The museum had some interesting things to look at. The only thing that didn't add up was that they had a record made before 1920 hanging on the wall. It was an Arentino brand disc made in Chicago which simply re-issued old Columbia records material. Arentino was one of several brands made in Chicago that had over-sized holes so that you needed to buy that companies record players to play their records easily. The Arentino discs are the most ridiculous with a big 3 inch whole which leaves very little room for title and artist information. A relic from the 1905-1918 time period, before radio I might add.

 

[JNight]

Incase those of you who could not make opening day, the Baseball/Broadcast Heritage Museum is open Monday thru Friday from 11:00 AM to 1:30 PM and is located at 530 Euclid Avenue in the Colonial Marketplace Arcade in Cleveland, Ohio...We will be adding more items in the next couple of weeks including a working production studio room for live interviews, and perhaps a place where stations can broadcast live from and send it back to their hometown. We can also hold radio related meetings and events downstairs such as Ham meetings, SBE meetings, etc. and can open in the evenings for large group meetings by appointment. As far as the record goes John, I guess it was placed on the wall in the early newsroom as a conversation piece, just to show the public a rare odd looking recording that a newsman may have placed on his newsroom wall back then...thanks for stopping down on opening day John, we had over 130 people show up with many dj's, newsmen, engineer's, etc. from our radio's past.