Category Archives: Television Archive

Who’s Really Winning the Media Wars in the 2016 Campaign?

Posted on September 2, 2015 by Kalev Leetaru

When it comes to media coverage, it seems as if Donald Trump is “trumping” all his rivals, Republicans and Democrats alike. ?But is that true? ?And how does it vary by print, digital and television media? ?Using the Internet Archive’s … Continue reading →

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2016 Political TV Ad Tracker: with Analysis & Fact-checking Citizens Can Trust

Posted on July 22, 2015 by Roger Macdonald

The Internet Archive is honored to receive today a Knight News Challenge grant to support our collaborative efforts to help citizens make sound?decisions?in the 2016 U.S. elections;?for the best interests of themselves, their communities and future generations. Experts are predicting … Continue reading →

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Tracking Politics on Television: Campaign Advertising and the State of the Union Going Viral

Posted on July 22, 2015 by Kalev Leetaru

Today the GDELT Project and the Internet Archive debut two exciting new interactive visualizations of the TV News Archive, one tracing the flow of money through campaign advertising in Philadelphia in the 2014 election cycle, and the other introducing a … Continue reading →

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Political Ads Win Over News 45 to 1 in Philly TV News 2014

Posted on March 19, 2015 by Roger Macdonald

[press: Columbia Journalism Review, USA Today, BloombergPolitics, Washington Post] Study finds 842 minutes of political Ads compared to 18.7 minutes of political news stories in large sample of Philadelphia TV news programs archived by the Internet Archive in a joint … Continue reading →

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Announcing: A Brave New Feature for TV News V2.1

Posted on May 5, 2014 by kristen

The new TV News Archive, launched just over one month ago, was updated today with the addition of a super new feature: Search Inside shows. It sounds simple enough for those familiar with the ubiquitous keyboard shortcut Ctrl+F…but it turns … Continue reading →

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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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