American Archive of Public BroadcastingAn initiative to preserve and make accessible significant historical public television and radio programs, and to coordinate a national effort to save at-risk public media content before it is lost to posterity. To date, approximately 68,000 items comprising 40,000 hours of programming from the 1950s to the present have been digitized for long-term preservation.
The collection contains thousands of programs that have had national impact. The vast majority of this initial content, however, consists of regional and local programs that document American communities during the second half of the 20th century and the first decade of the 21st. This collection includes local news and public affairs programs, history productions that document the heritage of local communities, and programs dealing with education, environmental issues, music, art, literature, dance, poetry, religion, and even filmmaking on a local level.
