• December 13, 2000

Today at Streaming Media West 2000, the Museum of Television & Radio and Microsoft Corp. announced that the museum will use the latest audio and video encoding technology from Microsoft to make its collection of television and radio programs available to Internet audiences. The museum has a collection of more than 100,000 television and radio programs and advertisements covering more than 75 years of television and radio history.

They feature news, public affairs, arts, sports, comedy and variety programs as well as commercial advertising. The collection includes such great radio moments as Franklin D. Roosevelt's “fireside chats” and Don Larsen's perfect game in 1956, as well as television coverage of the first Apollo moon landing, previously thought-to-be-lost episodes of “The Honeymooners,” the first hours of MTV, and the pilot episode of “Seinfeld.” Many of the most significant and entertaining clips from the collection will be offered on the Internet next year.