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Subject: Re: Archives

Another reason so little old local TV programmingf exists is really a very
 simple one: Many shows were aired live and would NOT be repeated. Thus,
 with a live show and no reruns, stations didn't have to spend for film
 stock for kinescope recordings, or later on, blank videotape to tape the
 show since these shows would not air again, and generally, no need to
 preserve them.

Of course, those who HOST the shows might, from time-to-time, out of
 their own pocket, buy 16mm film stock to make kinescopes for personal
 use---usually to use as audition films for stations in bigger markets,
 or maybe to show to children in later years. 

As an example of the latter, the only record of a complete newscast of a
 certain (it's call letters escape me) TV station in South Dakota from
 1963-1964 (?) that still exists happens to exist because it's anchor,
 Tom Brokaw, had a 16mm kinescope made so he could send it to WSB-TV in
 Atlanta, where he was subseuqnetly hired as a reporter. When Brokaw
 left the "Today" show in 1982 to become anchor of NBC's evening newscast,
 about 20 seconds of this kinescope aired as part of a review of Brokaw's
 career up to that point on his final "Today" show.

Joseph Gallant

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