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Vanderbilt Television News Archive Patron Tutorials: Collection Details

A how to guide for account creation, finding content, ordering news episodes or segments, creating a Media Account, and receiving content in the Media Account.

About the collection

The core of the TV News Archive collection is nightly recording of various television news programs. Shows recorded include:

Evening News Recordings
Show Title Network Starting Ending
ABC World News Tonight ABC August 5th, 1968 Present
CBS Evening News CBS August 5th, 1968 Present
NBC Nightly News NBC August 5th, 1968 Present
CNN Prime News, Worldview and World Today with various anchors over the years. CNN 1994 November 1, 2001
Wolf Blitzer Report CNN February 1, 2001 December 31, 2001
Anderson Cooper 360 CNN November 7, 2001 June 30, 2024
Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer CNN July 1, 2024 Present
NewsNight with Aaron Brown CNN November 5, 2001 November 4, 2005
Special Report with Bret Baier Fox News Channel (FNC) October 13, 2013 Present
Fox Report with Shephard Smith. M-F show not to be confused with FNC weekend programs FNC March 1, 2004 October 10, 2013
Newsroom with Ana Cabrera (weekends) CNN April 27, 2013 Present
Fox Report with John Scott (weekends) FNC June 16, 2017 Present
Fox Report with (various weekend anchors) FNC March 6, 2004 June 10, 2017
The Beat with Ari Melber (Weekdays) MSNBC May 6, 2024 Present
Ayman (Weekends) MSNBC May 11, 2024 Present
ABC Nightline* ABC November 8, 1979 December 15, 2015

*Originally known as The Iran Crisis–America Held Hostage until March 24, 1980 when the name Nightline was used for the first time. We stopped keeping Nightline on a nightly basis by January 2011.