The Research possibilities could be endless
The trove, which totals about a million hours of newscasts, is expected to arrive Tuesday at the Internet Archive in Richmond, Calif., where it will be digitized and made available to the public, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported
The massive collection, which was first reported last month by Fast Company magazine, include local news shows from Philadelphia between 1986 and 2012, and broadcasts from Boston, where she once lived, from 1977 to 1986. All the while, she also recorded national news and cable channels, leading to her to run several VCRs simultaneously 24 hours a day.
The cassettes might include rare material. During the 1960s and '70s, local TV stations routinely wiped clean their tapes and reused them; it cost too much and required too much space to maintain an archive.
the tapes were kept in Boston, Philadelphia and in a storage facility in suburban Warminster, Pa. The Internet Archive, a nonprofit, has begun soliciting donations to pay for digitizing the collection, a process expected to take years and cost at least $2 million.
35 Years Of Newscast Recordings To Be Digitized, Archived
The trove, which totals about a million hours of newscasts, is expected to arrive Tuesday at the Internet Archive in Richmond, Calif., where it will be digitized and made available to the public, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported
The massive collection, which was first reported last month by Fast Company magazine, include local news shows from Philadelphia between 1986 and 2012, and broadcasts from Boston, where she once lived, from 1977 to 1986. All the while, she also recorded national news and cable channels, leading to her to run several VCRs simultaneously 24 hours a day.
The cassettes might include rare material. During the 1960s and '70s, local TV stations routinely wiped clean their tapes and reused them; it cost too much and required too much space to maintain an archive.
the tapes were kept in Boston, Philadelphia and in a storage facility in suburban Warminster, Pa. The Internet Archive, a nonprofit, has begun soliciting donations to pay for digitizing the collection, a process expected to take years and cost at least $2 million.
35 Years Of Newscast Recordings To Be Digitized, Archived
