I've gotten requests for LN clips from production people over the last few years. They first approach NBC's archives; then they'll tell me: (1/3)
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"NBC Entertainment does not have this episode." (2017) "…several of [the shows we requested] are MII tapes which are nigh close to undubbable." (2020) "…they don't have the media for that show." (2021) (2/3)
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Now, in many cases, they will have the shows, which they'll then have digitized per request. But there's been no systematic program to digitize every show that they have. And they don't have every show. (3/3)
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So if they do digitize an episode or segment in response to a request, do they charge a big fee?
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I imagine it's substantial, but I don't have any prices. What they'll do is digitize the entire show rather than just a particular segment. Too much work on their end to isolate the in/out.
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The history of television, like the history of film, has always been in the hands of civilians like you who love it most.
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Why ain’t I rich, then?
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I wonder what the reason would be for why they don't have every show? Losing or taping over the tape? I would think that, at the very least, by the 80s legal (in terms of copyright and/or lawsuits) would require that they keep a tape of every episode.
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One might think that. Likely shitty organization.
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Wouldn't the logical thing for people to do is approach Worldwide Pants? They have archives of (almost) everything I'd assume
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Not for Late Night. WPI doesn't own that show. NBC does.
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I'm appalled but not shocked at corporate America's callousness for our cultural history. Whether it's David Letterman's show -- or the 50% of silent movies permanently destroyed -- we've heard this song countless times before. If there's no profit motive, they don't care.
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