2025 Early Television Convention

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Early Television Museum

2025 Early Television Convention

The 2025 Convention will be held May 2-4 at the Early Television Museum in Hilliard. This year there will be some changes to the format:.

Admission charge has been lowered to $25 for members, $35 for non-members
All events will be at the museum - we will have comfortable chairs.
Food trucks will be at the museum for the Friday evening event and for Saturday lunch
No additional charge for vendors
Saturday dinner will be held at The Old Bag of Nails Pub (individual payment)
Discounts at local Hilliard busineses

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The registration fee includes admission to all events and non-alcoholic drinks during the convention. Beer and wine will be available at a nominal charge.

Regstration for members is $25, and for non-members $35. Additional family members are $10

Volunteer to help at the Convention

See items that will be in the auction

Enter an item for the auction

Discount Motel Rooms

Discounts at local Hilliard busineses

Saturday Dinner menu
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Here is information on past conventions.

Displays

Glenn Sobola's World's Fair Exhibit

Vintage Video Games

The Auction

There will be a silent auction on Saturday from noon to 5 pm, and a live auction on Saturday starting at noon. Items can be entered in the auctions online or at the convention until 11 am on Saturday. You can see the auction items here. Check often, as we will be updating the list frequently.

Thin your herd of sets you are never going to get around to restoring, vintage parts (CRTs/flybacks/etc. intended for projects you've been sitting on for way too long), and maybe consider making a charitable donation of a vintage set to the Museum so that it could be auctioned off with 100 percent of the sale going to further ETF activities.

The Sweepstakes

This is a museum fundraiser, and the incredible prize will be announced soon. Tickets will be sold starting Friday, May 2, and the drawing will be held at the fall swapmeet and online in October.

Schedule

All Events will be at the Museum

Friday, May 2

8 am - 6 pm	Enter items for the Auction, register for the Convention.
2 - 4 pm	Setting Final Adjustments with Bob Andersen - Restoration Workshop
5 - 8 pm	Food available from Mustafa’s Halal Gyro
6 pm – 9 pm	Meet other collectors at the museum. Demonstration of sets in the Museum's collection. Food will be available for purchase from food trucks, or at the Center Street Market food court a block from the Museum. Beer and wine will be available for purchase at the museum. Coffee and pastries will be provided courtesy of Coffee Connections and Destination Hilliard.

Saturday, May 3

Coffee and pastries will be provided courtesy of Coffee Connections and Destination Hilliard

7 am – 8 am

Swap Meet setup

8 am – 10:00 am

Swap Meet. Register for the Convention.

8 am - 11 am

Enter items for the Auction. Deadline is 11 am.

10:30 am - 1:30 pm

Food available from Hound Dogs and Dos Patrones

12 noon - 5 pm

Silent Auction

12 noon - 2 pm

Live Auction

2 pm - 4 pm

Brief Histories of the Inventors Who Made Television	Mike Molnar
So You're the New Owner of a Vintage TV- Now What?	Dan Jones
Selling Predicta - Realistic Values and Expectations Selling America’s Iconic Set	Blake Hinkle
The first handheld color video cameras and VTRs	Charlie Krohn
The Sony Chromatron: Snatching success from the jaws of failure - A brief (pre) history of the Sony Trinitron	Matthew D'Asaro

4 pm

Raffle Drawing - Zenith 1998 TV set

About 5 pm

Silent Auction ends

4 pm – 7 pm

Browse the museum’s collection, talk to fellow collectors.

7 pm

Dinner at the Old Bag of Nails Pub (individual payment)

Sunday, May 4

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