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Vanderbilt University Television News Archive

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Largest repository of television news in the world: over "30,000 individual network evening news broadcasts from the major U.S. national broadcast networks: ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN, and over 9,000 hours of special news-related programming."
Updated daily. Over 30,000 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. These special reports and periodic news broadcasts cover presidential press conferences and political campaign coverage, and national and international events such as the Watergate hearings, the plight of American hostages in Iran, the Persian Gulf war, and the terrorist attack on the United States on September 11, 2001.
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Coverage Dates1968 to present (ABC, CBS, NBC), 1995 to present (CNN). UConn users can view all CNN materials without charge
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