Broadcasters & newsrooms

For tape libraries that have outgrown the spreadsheet, the reel index, and the legal team's filing cabinet.

Public broadcasters, regional newsrooms, and tape libraries use Archively.AI to bring radio masters, TV broadcasts, raw news footage, and rights-clearance files into one searchable catalog — every tape transcribed, every clearance traceable, every born-digital file ingested without leaving the workflow.

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Earliest record: First broadcast
Media: Radio · TV · Raw · Born-digital
Tenants: 1 station · many shows

What you'll actually do with it.

Concrete use cases — not generic pitch bullets.

Search 60 years of broadcasts by what was said.

AI transcripts on every tape with word-level confidence and proofreader review. Find the moment, not just the show.

Catalog rights and clearance alongside the picture.

Every tape carries clearance status, originating contract, and re-broadcast terms. The legal team and the producers see the same record.

Recover the historic tape vault — ¼-inch reel, 16mm, 2-inch quad, Beta SP, DigiBeta.

Catalog by master format, transfer to FLAC / ProRes preservation copies, and surface the access derivative without losing the original metadata.

Open metadata, restricted picture.

Per-record access levels: catalogued in full so descendants and authorised researchers know the footage exists, with access by written request to the archivist.

Born-digital newsroom workflow.

Pull from the newsroom DAM into the catalog automatically with full provenance: rundown sheets, decision logs, and edit-master metadata.

Anniversary specials and member-drive content on demand.

Tag the historic creative once; surface a curated 60th-anniversary collection (or a Camille-anniversary microsite) without rebuilding the index.

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Tidewater Public Broadcasting Tape Library

Fictional US public broadcaster (Norfolk, VA)1958 – present

4,200+ tapes across radio (since 1958) and television (since 1971): inaugural newsmagazine, civil-rights coverage, the 1969 Camille emergency broadcast, the 1989 Peabody-winning shipyard investigation, and the FCC clearance file. Strongest demonstration of A/V at scale + rights-and-clearance metadata.

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Items: 15 + padded
Series: 5
Years on the air: 66 (radio) · 53 (TV)

What to look at

First broadcast — 12 September 1958

Master reel of WTPB-FM's inaugural newsmagazine 'The Coast at Six', anchored by founding GM Vernon Whitlock.

1969 Camille emergency tape

Eight unbroken hours of continuous emergency broadcast, with the rundown sheets news director Hammond Reed kept open beside him.

1989 Peabody — Newport News shipyard layoffs

Cora Davenport's five-part investigation, edit master + interview rushes + the 2018 oral history that walks the production.

1965 march footage — open metadata, restricted picture

42 minutes of raw 16mm civil-rights footage, catalogued in full but access-restricted under the 2018 FCC clearance audit. Model record for rights-restricted material.

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