2025 Early Television Convention

Early Television Museum

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

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

There was a silent auction on Saturday from noon to 5 pm, and a live auction on Saturday starting at noon. You can see the auction items here.

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.

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)

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