Vanderbilt TV News Archive
The networks and time frames covered by the TV News Archive are:
- Evening newscasts from each of the following, dating from August 1968:
- ABC
- CBS
- NBC
- An hour of newscasts from CNN dating from 1995 (and special programming dating from 1988)
- An hour of newscasts from Fox News dating from 2004 (and special programming dating from 2003)
- Vanderbilt Television News Archive This link opens in a new windowThe world's most extensive and complete archive of television news. All individual network evening news broadcasts since 1968 and special news-related programming since 1989.
How to Perform a Basic Search
This tutorial shows the basic search functions of the Vanderbilt TV News Archive website. Navigate to TV News Archive. To start, be sure you have created an account and are logged in. Once you are logged in, click search at the top of the page.
This opens the search page.
In the "Enter your Keywords (Required)" field enter your keywords, then click search.
Search Tips: multiple words are not taken literally. The search will show results for any of the words, ranking results with all words together first.
This will return the results of your search.
From the results page you may click on the title of the program or Details /Video to display the record for the results.
Doing so will display the record
The record displays metadata for the specific record and a viewer that will allow you to view the specific clip.
Note: if you are not affiliated with and on an authorized network for Vanderbilt, or a sponsoring institution, you will not be able to view the video. If you wish to borrow the clip, click Add Clip:
This will add the clip to your cart.
Click on the cart to view the contents of your cart.
This displays the contents of your cart.
