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WMTV Sports Program

Date: 04 28 1953
Description: University of Wisconsin football coach, Ivy Williamson, is showing films to Art Lentz, director of the University Sports News Service, boxing coach, Johnny...
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WMTV Studio

Date: 05 05 1953
Description: Three men are standing in the WMTV studio. There is a film reel in the background.
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Roundy Coughlin at The HUB

Date: 05 06 1953
Description: Ad for WMTV showing Roundy Coughlin signing a contract with The HUB, his TV sponsor. Pictured with Roundy are Ed Schmitz, Jim Schmitz and Bob Schmitz, own...
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Uncle Julius and His Band

Date: 05 07 1953
Description: Uncle Julius and his 8 piece band on a stage with a banner in the background that reads: "Hear the Doughboy, WKOW Breakfast Symphony with Uncle Julius, 6 -...
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Carson Gulley with Pies

Date: 05 14 1953
Description: Chef Carson Gulley holding two pies and standing in front of a rack of fudge bottom pies. He is posing for a WMTV ad for his cooking show to be broadcast ...
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WMTV Weatherman Paul Ekern

Date: 05 28 1953
Description: WMTV weatherman Paul Ekern is standing and pointing to a weather map in front of a WMTV television camera.
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John B.Davis WKOW-TV News Editor

Date: 09 10 1953
Description: Portrait of John B. Davis, WKOW news editor, sitting at a table behind a microphone.
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Muscular Dystrophy Telethon

Date: 09 15 1953
Description: Man and woman looking at a box of money in relation to a WKOW-TV Muscular Dystrophy telethon to raise money for a cure of the disease.
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Merrillyn Wegner with her Puppets

Date: 12 10 1953
Description: Merrillyn (Mrs. Robert) Wegner is shown holding puppets and standing in front of a set from "Your Puppet Pals", a weekly show on WKOW-TV. She has a smiling...
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Four Men and Award at WMTV Channel 33

Date: 02 10 1954
Description: Four men and award at WMTV Channel 33.
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ABC-TV Dinner at Edgewater Hotel

Date: 10 09 1954
Description: Four men standing at a banquet table with a Bucky Badger ice sculpture as the centerpiece. One is holding one of the chrysanthemums that decorated the tabl...
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Stanley Sadler, Chief Engineer at WMTV

Date: 09 1955
Description: Stanley Sadler (b.1905-d.1969) posing with a camera. Sadler is chief engineer at the WMTV station in Madison.
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Honorary Membership for Actor

Date: 10 1955
Description: Officer Harold Kurth (right) presented an honorary membership in the Madison policeman's Protective Association to Ben Alexander (left) who plays Detective...
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New York Television Writer Gives Advice to Women

Date: 08 14 1957
Description: Mrs. Joyce Wickware, a former Madison resident, shares some advice to young women planning careers in the field of television. She has spent the past five ...
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Professor M. Robert Irwin Class

Date: 11 06 1957
Description: Television broadcast of a University of Wisconsin class by Professor M. Robert Irwin. Cameramen are standing at recording equipment and at installed lighti...
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Symposium at the Opening of the National Mass Communications History Center

Date: 01 25 1958
Description: Four national news commentators who conducted a symposium at the formal opening of the Wisconsin State Historical Society's new National Mass Communication...
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Women Journalists

Date: 03 01 1958
Description: The four journalists who have been asked to speak for the traditional "ladies night" program of the Madison Advertising Club at the Cuba Club. They are (le...
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We Saw You . . . On Television

Date: 07 29 1958
Description: Members from Madison's five Senior Citizens groups tour the University of Wisconsin television station WHA-TV. The group reacts when they view themselves o...
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We Saw You . . . On Television

Date: 07 29 1958
Description: Members from Madison's five Senior Citizens groups tour the University of Wisconsin television station WHA-TV. Shown looking through a television camera ar...
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We Saw You . . . On Television

Date: 07 29 1958
Description: Members from Madison's five Senior Citizens groups tour the University of Wisconsin television station WHA-TV. A reflection of the group of people is showi...

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