<body><div><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=4bdXcN_1ESMScAc00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=4bdXcN_1ESMScAc00" width="1200" height="600" >KILGORE, Texas (KLTV) - The Texas Broadcast Museum has purchased a 21,000-square-foot building next door to its current location to make room for a growing collection of donated broadcast equipment.The museum’s existing building has 19,000 square feet of space. Museum founder Chuck Conrad said the large, aged equipment donated to the museum is “gravitationally challenged,” and the museum needs more room.“That’s where the real museum is. This isn’t going to be a museum. This is actually going to be a retail store believe it or not. And light manufacturing where we’ll actually repair stuff. It’s going to give us great shop space and a lot of storage,” Conrad said.The building was originally a Ford dealership. It later housed a clothing manufacturer and then a prison uniform manufacturer.The old showroom will become the museum’s new retail store.“People seem to think we’re the Salvation Army of old electronic equipment anyway. People drop stuff all the time,” Conrad said.Conrad said the museum has duplicates of some donated items, and those duplicates will go up for sale.“In a way to raise funds for the museum and also to get the stuff in the hands of somebody who will appreciate it, we’re going to have a display in here that we deem saleable,” Conrad said.The museum also plans to sell items that Radio Shack once sold.“There is no RadioShack anymore,” Conrad said.Much of the equipment donated to the museum is broken, but much of it is repaired. Conrad said one room will become a hi-fi demonstration room featuring amps, turntables, speakers and tape decks wired for sound and available for purchase.“This is going to be the hi-fi demo room,” Conrad said.The back of the building, formerly a cutting room, will become the repair shop. The very back of the building will become a delivery room.“The scary thing is, you know, the other building when we first got it. I said, oh we’ll never fill this up. Wrong,” Conrad said.Conrad said a Dallas TV station that is moving to another building has contacted him and plans to give the museum its old equipment.Conrad said the museum plans to have the retail shop set up by Nov. 1.The Texas Broadcast Museum is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. every Friday and Saturday. </div></body>

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KILGORE, Texas (KLTV) - The Texas Broadcast Museum has purchased a 21,000-square-foot building next door to its current location to make room for a growing collection of donated broadcast equipment. The museum’s existing building has 19,000 square feet of space. Museum founder Chuck Conrad said the large, aged equipment donated...

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KILGORE, Texas (KLTV) - The Texas Broadcast Museum has purchased a 21,000-square-foot building next door to its current location to make room for a growing

Texas Broadcast Museum buys second building next door

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