This, plus his wife’s annoyance at all the old sets cluttering up their living room, hatched the idea to start a museum. The Early Television Museum opened in 2002 as a nonprofit foundation. It ...

This, plus his wife’s annoyance at all the old sets cluttering up their living room, hatched the idea to start a museum. The Early Television Museum opened in 2002 as a non-profit foundation. It ...

The Early Television Museum in Hilliard has scores of the much-improved, post-World War II, black-and-white sets that changed entertainment. Collector Steve McAvoy, now 80 years old, started the ...

He mused about maybe renting a studio somewhere or even the unthinkable; parting with a few of his old television sets. “I don’t want someone to find me underneath a pile of TVs,” he laughed.

Tulsa residents who choose to prepare themselves for the digital television switchover by purchasing a new television set could find themselves facing a new problem: what should they do with ...

A set made by electronic-television pioneer Philo Farnsworth in the late 1920s or early 1930s. “Only three still survive as far as we know and they’re all already in other museums,” McVoy said.

McVoy sold his cable holdings in 1999 and, looking for something to do, decided to start collecting old television sets. “I never collected anything before,” he said. The first set he bought, on eBay, ...

About 180 television sets are on exhibit, arranged in chronological order, with another 50 in storage. Sign up for Best Bets, your go-to planner for things to do on LI.

The history of television began long before millions of people gathered in front of their black-and-white sets and fiddled with the antenna and horizontal hold to watch Lucy, Uncle Miltie and ...