Television News Program Sources
U.S. Networks |From Other Countries | Databases | Search Engines | Website Locators | Sources for Historical News Programming
The U.S. Network Video News Archives
- CNN News
- CNN News Video via Vanderbilt Television News Archive (1995-present)
- NBC Television News
- NBC News Video
- via Vanderbilt Television News Archive (1968-present)
- PBS
- Search PBS
- Online Newshour
- WPSU
Use this search engine to find broadcasts from this local broadcast station. - WGBH Text Database
Click on "Text Database" in upper right in order to search from over 30,000 entries. - Frontline
"has 54 reports online for viewing." - NOW
"weekly TV news program, goes behind the headlines to report on how corporations and government policies effect society and America's democracy."
From Other Countries
- Al Jazeera (English)
The English version of the website aljazeera.net.
- BBC
Includes news, information, and comments gathered from mass media around the world.
- Archive
- Languages (news and audio in 33 languages)
- BBC Monitoring Annual Review
- BBC Monitoring Reports via LexisNexis Academic
- BBC Motion Gallery
- LinkTV
Access to programs that provide a unique perspective on international news, current events, and diverse cultures, presenting issues not often covered in the U.S. media.
- open media network
Provides free Internet TV and related services and access to hard-to-find content created by noncommecial organizations.
- Voice of America
"VOA broadcasts more than 1,000 hours of news, information, educational, and cultural programming every week to an estimated worldwide audience of more than 115 million people."
Databases
- Television News Archive (Vanderbilt University)
"world's most extensive and complete archive of television news. The collection holds more than 30,000 individual network evening news broadcasts from the major U.S. national broadcast networks: ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN, and more than 9,000 hours of special news-related programming including ABC's Nightline since 1989."
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Poynteronline
Provides tips and stories about television journalism and how to become a better journalist.
- B Roll Online
"supplies information, tips, and discussions on photography, news, and the entire Television Medium."
- Museum of Broadcast Communications
"premiere broadcast museum in America and home to the only National Radio Hall of Fame."
- The Paley Center for Media
"a nonprofit organization founded by William S. Paley in 1975 to collect and preserve television and radio programs and to make these programs available to the public."
- World News Connection
"contains full-text translated summaries from the Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports for the following materials: newspaper articles, conference proceedings, radio and television broadcasts, periodicals, non-classified technical reports"- Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports (1974-1996)
"Translations of broadcasts, news agency transmissions, newspapers, periodicals, and government statements from nations around the world are the sources of this information." First release : Series 2 includes Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) 1974-1980; South Asia (SAS) 1980-1987; Africa (Sub-Sahara) (AFR) 1987-1988; Sub-Saharan Africa (AFR) 1988-1996.
- Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports (1974-1996)
- Motion Picture Television and Reading Room: Television in the Library of Congress
the "granddaddy of television archives."
Search
- Accoona.com
"more than 80,000 breaking news articles daily - just minutes after publication - from renowned newspapers, magazines, press releases, trade journals, niche publications, blogs and broadcast media." Lets you sort news results by state, country, time or date published.
- blinkx
"blinkx TV is unique in that unlike other systems that just scour the Web for videos and make them searchable by metadata (like filenames), blinx actually watches TV clips and understands what they are about and can take you straight to the relevant point inside the video."
- C-SPAN Search "a simple one-box search and an advanced search screen that allows for limiting by date, as well as by category, topic, and series."
- AOL Video
"has millions of free, high quality videos including music videos, news clips, movie trailers, viral videos, and full-length TV shows."
- ShadowTV
"was developed to manipulate video for efficient delivery via the Internet. ShadowTV can provide all-digital continuous-access to live and archived television content via the Web."
- PodZinger (Everyzing)
"the only search engine that allows users to find audio and video content based on keyword searches and then skim the results for relevance the same way they would for text."
- Truveo
"powers websites that reach over 40 million unique visitors every month."
- Yahoo! TV
search engine that allows users to find information about tv shows, news shows and watch videos online.
Website Locators
- NewsDirectory
- Broadcast TV Stations
- Network News
- TV Networks (including cable TV)
- News Sources from Pennsylvania via Kidon Media-Link:
Click or scroll to Broadcast News to find television stations.
Sources for Historical News Programming
- Newsreels 1964-67
This DVD contains a selection of newsreels made by Universal International News.
- Stay Tuned: Television's Unforgettable Moments
This focuses on 36 landmark moments in news, sports and show business with hundreds of photos and stills.
- We Interrupt This Broadcast: Relive the Events That Stopped Our Lives--From the Hindenburg Explosion to the Attacks of September 11
Beginning with the explosion of the Hindenburg in 1937, this book and double-CD collection of audio broadcasts reviews a series of events so urgent they interrupted scheduled broadcasting in America. Includes the attack on Pearl Harbor and the death of Elvis, accompanied by dramatic black-and-white photos.
- Library of American Broadcasting "a wide-ranging collection of audio and video recordings, books, pamphlets, periodicals, personal collections, oral histories, photographs, and scripts devoted exclusively to the history of broadcasting. Along with searchable databases of the library's holdings are a special on-line exhibits and photographs."
- Television News of the Civil Rights Era 1950-1970 from the Virginia Center for Digital History at the University of Virginia
"Television News of the Civil Rights Era, 1950-1970 aims to collect, digitize, and present in streaming video format over the World Wide Web television news footage from the period and to make these valuable materials available to scholars, teachers, and students. [...] This project is currently a research work in progress. [...] We are continually updating this project as research on these films progresses."
- British Universities Newsreel Database (BUND)
A searchable collection of over 160,000 British newsreels and over 80,000 digitized newsreel documents
e-reference page.