2019 Early Television Convention

Mechanical TV
- Gallery
- Database Summary
- Sets at the Museum
- Restoration
- Broadcasting
- Advertising
- Roger DuPouy's Site
- Peter Yanczer's Site
- Gerolf Poetschke's Site
- Eckhard Etzold's Site
Early Electronic TV
- Gallery
- Database Summary
- American Sets at the Museum
- British Sets at the Museum
- Restoration
- Broadcasting
- Technical Information
- Other Equipment
  - Antennas
  - CRTs
  - Test Equipment
  - VHF Boosters
- Advertising
- Gerolf Poetschke's Site
- Eckhard Etzold's Site
Postwar TV
- American Postwar TV
- British/European Postwar TV
- Postwar TV in the Rest of the World
- Restoration
- Postwar Broadcasting
- Technical Information
- Other Equipment
  - Accessories
  - Antennas
  - CRTs
  - Test Equipment
- Advertising
- Eckhard Etzold's Site
Early Color TV
- Gallery
- Database Summary
- Color TV Systems
- Sets at the Museum
- Restoration
- Broadcasting
- Technical Information
- CRTs
- Advertising
- Pete Deksnis's Site
- Ed Reitan's Color Television History
- Eckhard Etzold's Site
CRT Rebuilding
- Rebuilding Tubes at the Museum
- Donations
The Foundation and Museum
- Early Television Foundation
- About the Museum
- Directions to the Museum
- Friends of the Museum
- Equipment Donations

Early Television Museum

2019 Early Television Convention

The 2019 Convention was held May 3-5 at the Early Television Museum in Hilliard.

Thanks to all our volunteers and presenters. Without you the convention would not be possible.

See you next year.

Here is a summary of the convention:

Attendance: 130 (120 in 2018)

Saturday Dinner: 65 (65 in 2018)

Auction Sales $3,970 ($21,556 in 2018)

Donations $2,737 ( $4,658 in 2018)

Net income to ETF $5,983 ($18,157 in 2018)

Wayne Bretl's Photos

Convention video coverage

Auction results

Here is information on the 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018 Conventions.

Schedule

Events in gray were at the museum and those in green at the Hilliard Civic and Cultural Arts Center

Friday, May 3

6:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Meet other collectors at the museum. Demonstration of sets in the Museum's collection. Food, beer and wine will be available for purchase.

Saturday, May 4

7:30 am – 8:00 am

Swap Meet setup

8:00 am – 11:00 am

Registration and Swap Meet

9:00 am - 12:00 noon

Live Auction

12:00 noon – 12:30 pm

Buffet Lunch

12:30 pm - 2:15 pm

Presentations

	Visions from the West: History of Early Television in St. Louis	John Coleman
	Reverse Engineering the mysterious REM Cathode Recovery Unit and CRT Tester	Matt D'Asaro
	CBS Television City Tour (1953), a film produced by : Edward R Murrow and Fred W Friendly	Ralph Sargent

2:15 pm – 2:30 pm

Break

2:30 pm – 4:15 pm

Presentations

	Television Coverage of the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II	Richard Wirth
	Charles Francis Jenkins: A Closer Look at His Life and Contribution to Early Television	Carl Dole
	Celebrating Television's Longest Remote: The July 1969 Apollo 11 Broadcast From the Moon	James O'Neal

5:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Presentation of an unopened Motorola EVR to the museum by Olin Shuler.

5:30 pm

Deadline for purchasing CT-100 drawing tickets

6:00 pm

CT-100 Drawing

5:30 pm – 7:00 pm

Browse the museum’s collection, talk to fellow collectors

7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Dinner

Sunday, May 5

9:00 am – 5:00 pm	Browse the museum’s collection, talk to fellow collectors. Demonstration of sets in the Museum’s collection.
10:00 am - 10:30 am	Early Television Foundation Annual Meeting
10:30 am – 11:00 am	Meeting - CRT rebuilding at the museum

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