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Vanderbilt Television News Archive

The Vanderbilt Television News Archive is one of the most extensive and complete archives of television news anywhere in the world. We have been recording, preserving, and providing access to television news broadcasts of the U.S. national networks since August 5, 1968. The core collection includes daily evening news programs from ABC, CBS, and NBC along with CNN (since 1995) and Fox News (since 2004).

This Day in History

Events on or near Aug 5

1968

The other big story on the day the TV News archive first recorded the national news USSR agrees to let Czechoslovakia pursue its liberal internal reform

1968

Republican National Convention / First Session / Speculation - first item on first ABC evening news recorded by Vanderbilt

1968

Republican Convention 1968 - first special event news coverage recorded by Vanderbilt

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