Radio Museum and Hall of Fame..GONE

[SFStatic]

Having had a business that ran ads on a public station which never in 10 years scored me a single customer, the answer is "yes." Some businesspeople...amazingly, considering some of the terrible stewards some large radio groups are...actually like to give back to the community. You can call it a donation, or whatever, but not all advertising is purchased just to target customers.

[DavidKaye]

Gee DavidKaye how about a radio station (sponsor) lets not pick this apart too much and get too deep on my statement.

A radio station sponsor?  Are you serious?  Most of the people interested in a radio museum are museum pieces themselves.  I've been to a couple of the KRE events and I was one of the youngest people there.  Well, that's perfectly okay, but what radio station besides KGO wants to reach those people?  None I can think of. 

I mean, heck, I'm all in favor of radio history.  I'm a radio geek, as most of us here are.  But we're a minority of a minority.  And who would want to reach us with advertising anyway?  I still say that if anybody takes over the radio museum it should probably be archive.org as they appear to have the financial backing (and bandwidth) to carry on such projects.

[DavidKaye]

Having had a business that ran ads on a public station which never in 10 years scored me a single customer, the answer is "yes."

Perhaps then you should contact DFJ and offer your support.  Seriously. 

[DavidKaye]

There was never any indication the questioner wanted answers. He seems OK with things as they are.

I'm sad that it's out of action.  I commend David F. Jackson and all the work he's put into the project, especially his vigilance in reaching out to some very unlikely sources of airchecks and memorabilia.  He's done a fantastic job. 

He's also spent $50,000 of his own money to do it.  That's the problem.  While I like airchecks and old radio logs and radio station histories I'm not sure I like them enough to spend $50k of my own money to support such a project. 

As to the question of HOW exactly to keep such a project going, I reiterate that it's time to partner with an organization that has experience doing such things.  I notice that Rick Prelinger (Prelinger Library) connected his industrial films and other video artifacts with archive.org.  That organization seems to have the bandwidth, the financial resources, and the volunteer help to carry on the goal of the Radio Museum. 

Sometimes you can't do it all alone.  Sometimes you need to hook up with someone who's already done something similar and has a track record. 

[michael hagerty]

There was never any indication the questioner wanted answers. He seems OK with things as they are.

I'm sad that it's out of action.  I commend David F. Jackson and all the work he's put into the project, especially his vigilance in reaching out to some very unlikely sources of airchecks and memorabilia.  He's done a fantastic job. 

He's also spent $50,000 of his own money to do it.  That's the problem.  While I like airchecks and old radio logs and radio station histories I'm not sure I like them enough to spend $50k of my own money to support such a project. 

As to the question of HOW exactly to keep such a project going, I reiterate that it's time to partner with an organization that has experience doing such things.  I notice that Rick Prelinger (Prelinger Library) connected his industrial films and other video artifacts with archive.org.  That organization seems to have the bandwidth, the financial resources, and the volunteer help to carry on the goal of the Radio Museum. 

Sometimes you can't do it all alone.  Sometimes you need to hook up with someone who's already done something similar and has a track record. 

Or maybe it's time for the Museum of Television and Radio to add San Francisco to its New York and Los Angeles locations.

[radio dx]

Calm down your taking my comment way to serious!