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TV Station Memorabilia

S

Stanislav

Does anyone here collect old TV station memorabilia (anything with a station logo or somehow related to a station)? If so, what is the coolest such item you have acquired?
 
I don't collect per se....but one item I have is pictured in the following link.

http://www.sebastianworld.com/items/sml1/sml150.htm

There was a variety program on channel 4 in Boston called "Swan Boat" with Art Amidon
and Hubert the swan.

I must have received this from an uncle who was a salesman at WBZ-TV in the 50's.

A head or two of the little kids have broken off but otherwise it's in good shape.

My copy has "Swan Boat WBZ-TV Channel 4, Boston Mass" written along the base.
 
In the 60s, WFBM-TV (now WRTV), Indianapolis gave out pictures of their personalities during appearances. They had some children's shows at that time and those personalities would hit the road. WTTV Bloomington/Indianapolis would give out pictures of their children's shows hosts at the Indiana State Fair. I have some of the pictures in boxes at home.
 
I have tons of stuff from KCNC as I worked there in the early 90s...shirts, pins, even pogs! Everything labled News 4 Colorado with the NBC peacock as we were an NBC O&O at the time... The coolest thing I have is a book of pictures and autographs of several of the anchors of the early 90s, including Denver's own news legand Bob Palmer and the popular Bill Stuart and Larry Green I recevied as a special gift.
 
...when I worked for an oldies station in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, in 1993-94, I had a coffee cup with the logos of both WFRV-TV/5 Green Bay and ABC. Of course, by then WFRV had been bought by CBS and the ABC affiliation had gone to WBAY-TV/2. There was a point at which both TV stations did a news story about a benefit concert for an ill neighbor of the radio station, and I made sure to keep sipping my coffee from that cup during my interviews just to see if the reporters eventually told me to knock it off. They didn't, and the cup got onto both stations -- on WFRV, the camera was at such an angle that only the Channel 5 logo could be seen, and on WBAY, only the ABC logo made it to air ;-) ...
 
I should have bought it but didn't but last year I saw a folder ( the kind that kids uses for their notebooks ) at a flea market in Virginia advertsing Washington's WTTG channel 5 from 1977. Back then their slogan was "setting the pace for the city" and of course it was plastered all over the folder. Among the photos on the cover..

*Lucille Ball ( I Love Lucy )
*Marlo Thomas ( That Girl )
*David Cassidy & Shirley Jones ( Partridge Family )
*The Flintstones
*Andy Griffith
*Raymond Burr ( Perry Mason )
and
Bob McAllister from Wonderama

The flea market wanted $1.00 for this bit of TV history.
 
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