American Archive of Public Broadcasting
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An archive worth knowing about: The Library of Congress and Boston’s WGBH have joined forces to create The American Archive of Public Broadcasting and “preserve for posterity the most significant public television and radio programs of the past 60 years.” Right now, they’re overseeing the digitization of approximately 40,000 hours of programs. And already you can start streaming “more than 7,000 historic public radio and television programs.”
The collection includes local news and public affairs programs, and “programs dealing with education, environmental issues, music, art, literature, dance, poetry, religion, and even filmmaking.” You can browse the complete collection here. Or search the archive here. For more on the archive, read this About page.
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Hopeful someone is spinning cable/television content 24 x 7 to archival storage. The ability to research and document, reliably, patterns in shows, advertisements, news reporting, etc., is more important than any speculative copyright interest.