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The Museum of Television & Radio is a nonprofit organization founded in 1975 by William S. Paley, the former chairman of CBS. The intent of this museum and it’s sister location in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles is to collect and preserve television and radio programs and make them available to the public.

Since opening its doors in 1976, the museum has expanded the collection to include more than 100,000 TV and radio programs, commercials, news clips, sports and other broadcasts. The programs that were selected for preservation in the collection were deemed to have artistic, cultural or historical significance.

Throughout the museum you will find temporary exhibits on artists or their work. Past exhibits have included "The Complete and Utter History of Monty Python's Flying Circus" , "No ‘Pryor’ Restraint: Richard Pryor on Television" and "Worlds Without End: The Art and History of the Soap Opera".
The fourth floor library is the main attraction for most visitors. This is where the thousands of clips in the collection are stored. Visitors can use computers to find a specific clip and then view them on individual video monitors. You’ll be able to see just about any memorable moment on television from the Beatles’ first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show to the "where’s the beef" commercial.