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Find Television Broadcasts & Transcripts

Broadcast: provides a visual image or audio of the program, often streaming video or maybe purchase video/dvd.

Transcript: contains a text of the program; does not include visual images or audio.

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Television

Television News Archive (Vanderbilt University) "the world's most extensive and complete archive of television news."

• 1968 - to date
• CNN streaming video (evening news only) 1995 to present
• Fox broadcasts, 2004 to present
• Major networks provide a summary of broadcast and length of segment.
• Advertisements - search advertisements for products or brands (e.g., Campbell's soup)
• Speeches - Nixon gave a foreign policy speech January 25, 1972
• Special Programming - political conventions, State of the Union addresses, Press conferences, events (e.g., Columbine), Nightline (some news programs)

Search by:

• Date
• Keywords
• Network
• News anchor

LexisNexis Academic: News Transcripts

• 1980 - to date

• Many transcript sources, including local television news, radio, news programs (e.g., Nightline, Howard Stern)

• Many radio news programs (e.g., All Things Considered)

Finding News Transcripts in LexisNexis Academic:

• Step One: Enter Search Terms in the box
• Step Two: Search Within, check TV and Radio Broadcast Transcripts
• Step Three: Specify Date

Use the Power Search in LexisNexis Academic to search all transcripts and to add smart indexing terms. Use the full title of your search terms (i.e. National Public Radio and not NPR)

• Step One: Enter Search Terms
• Step Two: Select Sources "transcripts"
• Step Three: Make sure to Specify the Date
• Step Four: Click Search
• Step Five: Click the plus-box on the left side next to News Transcripts and select the material you want.

In the News Search, after entering your search criteria, use the pulldown to select Transcripts.

NewsCAT

Types of Searches

• Keyword Search

• Keyword Search by Date

Some pros and cons to consider when using these 2 sources

• Pro: these sources will help you to identify news coverage of key events, speeches, interviews of famous and not-so-famous people

• Con: only CNN streaming video is available at this time in Vanderbilt's Television News Archive. All other segments have to be purchased.

• Pro: you can identify both the transcripts of news and the visuals of news programs by using the 2 databases together

• Con: sometimes you can identify the text of an interview in the LexisNexis but you will need to use Vanderbilt's Television News Archive to get the listing of the news program content (for placement in news program and overlap between networks).

• Pro: LexisNexis News Transcripts will help you to identify coverage of local events in the national news.(e.g., the I-80 crash in January 2004).

Historical Collections of Transcripts

CBS News (available in the News & Microforms Library) (microfiche)

• Universe (1980-1982)

• Going Places (1980)

• Face the Nation (1954-1980, not microfiche) (1980-1988)

• The Mike Wallace Profiles (1981)

• Up to the Minute (1981-1982)

• The American Parade (1984)

• Crossroads (1984)

• 48 Hours (1988)

• CBS News : Daily News Broadcasts (1980-1988)

• CBS News Special Report (1980, 1983, 1986, 1988)

• CBS Reports (1980-1988)

• On the Road with Charles Kuralt (1983)

• 60 Minutes (1980-1988)

• Our Times with Bill Moyers (1983)

• 30 Minutes (1980-1982)

• Your Turn : Letters to CBS News (1980)

• Magazine (1980-1981)

• West 57th (1985-1988)

• CBS News Special (1981, 1984, 1986)

• VOA guide: Voice of America English broadcasts worldwide (1995, 1997)