House of Broadcasting Radio & Television Museum will finally be displayed at the
Arizona Historical Museum in Tempe on 2/9/2021! We will be notifying our friends
as to the many activities planned in association with this event.
Stay tuned!

PHOENIX TELEVISION book launch!

To purchase a copy online, click here

Celebrating 22 years in operation!

The House of Broadcasting, Inc. is a 501c3 non-profit organization dedicated to educating the public and preserving and celebrating the history, personalities and paraphernalia of radio and television in Arizona. It is one of only five museums in the country dedicated to the broadcast industry. The four others are in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago and Washington D. C.

Museum has come a long way since its inception. HOBI’s beginnings were modest, a limited exhibition display in the South Arcade at Phoenix Chris-Town (now Christown- Spectrum Mall). It started with just one window display and grew to several. Today, the Museum is a part of the Arizona Historical Museum in Tempe.

Several hundred visitors tour HOBI per month, from across the state, the nation and the globe. They enjoyed the treasures that fill the Museum’s gallery rooms. Visitors delighted in the one of a kind photographs and awards, cameras, editing and lighting equipment. Special favorites are costuming and classical memorabilia from Buck Owens, (HOBI is the only Museum with Buck Owens costume outside his Bakersfield Museum), early news attire from Mary Jo West, the Marty Robbins, Lew King, Karl Eller, Tom Chauncey, and the Ira Lavin collections. Recent acquisitions from the late C.E. Pep Cooney, equipment and photographs from Red Harkins, and special items from legends Del and the late, Jewell Lewis, add to the excitement.

The Museum also participated in the Smithsonian gallery in 1998, at the Tempe Festival, the Arizona Broadcasters Association exhibitor’s event, and did host community events including book signings for such notable authors as Hugh Downs, and Bill Thompson aka Wallace of Wallace and Ladmo, Maurie Helle (producer) Jana Bommersbach, Jan D’Atri, host on KPNX-TV … Al McCoy, Voice of the Phoenix Suns.

We also held an evening discussion on Katrina Hurricane with Jonathan Elias, Ch. 15 (Emmy Award winning anchor); Peter Busch, Ch. 5 with questions from the 100 plus audience attending. These two newscasters reported live from New Orleans. These high profile celebrity events garnered significant print and broadcast coverage. The museum has been featured on Fox 10, News 3, ABC 15, Channel 12 and CBS 5, as well as on Scottsdale Cable shows and in Trends Magazine, Scottsdale Magazine, Phoenix Magazine, Phoenix Home & Garden, Arizona Republic, Key Magazine and the Tribune.

In fact, HOBI had a 15-minute exclusive featured show touring the Museum in 2011 produced and playing on Scottsdale Cable 11.

THE CELEBRITY TOAST HAS HONORED NOT ONLY THE ICONS IN THE MEDIA INDUSTRY BUT THOSE WHO REPRESENT THE VERY BEST OF OUR COMMUNITY.