Category Archives: Television Archive

Introducing the New TV News Archive

Posted on April 1, 2014 by kristen

Announcing the launch of the fully redesigned TV News Archive. This research library, originally released in September 2012, is a free service provided as a way to enhance the capabilities of journalists, scholars, teachers, librarians, civic organizations and other engaged … Continue reading →

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Mapping 400,000 Hours of U.S. TV News

Posted on December 13, 2013 by Roger Macdonald

We are excited to unveil a couple experimental data-driven visualizations that literally map 400,000 hours of U.S. television news. One of our collaborating scholars, Kalev Leetaru, applied “fulltext geocoding” software to our entire television news research service collection. These algorithms … Continue reading →

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NSA TV Clip Library

Posted on October 21, 2013 by Roger Macdonald

When the American people find out how their government has secretly interpreted the Patriot Act, they are going to be stunned and they are going to be angry.  Senator Ron Wyden May 26, 2011 Recent revelations of the extent of … Continue reading →

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new mp4 (h.264) derivative technique — simpler and easy!

Posted on February 9, 2013 by traceypooh

Greetings video geeks!   We’ve updated the process and way we create our .mp4 files that are shown on video pages on archive.org It’s a much cleaner/clearer process, namely: We opted to ditch ffpreset files in favor of command-line argument … Continue reading →

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new video and audio player — video multiple qualities, related videos, and more!

Posted on February 9, 2013 by traceypooh

Many of you have already noticed that since the New Year, we have migrated our new “beta” player to be the primary/default player, then to be the only player. We are excited about this new player! It features the very … Continue reading →

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files.xml and metadata API now showing video file’s width, height, and duration

Posted on February 9, 2013 by traceypooh

For those video oriented of you who inspect our _files.xml directly, or use a metadata API (JSON) for items, you’ll likely be pleased to know that for all new items, as well as items that update (eg: review posted, metadata … Continue reading →

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Happy News Year! An Exhibit of International News

Posted on January 4, 2012 by brewster

In celebration of the new year, we’d like to take you on a tour of news broadcasts from around January 1st from more than 60 stations in 30 countries. We hope the Happy News Year exhibit will highlight the amazing … Continue reading →

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Understanding 9/11: A Television News Archive

Posted on August 24, 2011 by internetarchive

We are proud to announce the launch of Understanding 9/11: A Television News Archive, a library of news coverage of the events of 9/11/2001 and their aftermath as presented by U.S. and international broadcasters. A resource for scholars, journalists and … Continue reading →

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LEARNING FROM RECORDED MEMORY: 9/11 TV News Archive Conference

Posted on August 3, 2011 by internetarchive

LEARNING FROM RECORDED MEMORY: 9/11 TV News Archive Conference Co-sponsored by Internet Archive and New York University’s Moving Image Archiving and Preservation Program, Tisch School of the Arts Wednesday, August 24, 4:00-6:00 pm; reception follows New York University, Tisch School … Continue reading →

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