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tommycharles:
[quote name=\'johnnya2k3\' date=\'Oct 1 2003, 02:11 AM\'] (I think Entertainment Tonight's are far, far back)! [/quote]
How often do the ET archives get used anyway? 300 or so eps / year and once in a while an interview clip is dragged out. This has to be frustrating for Paramount to keep these.
uncamark:
[quote name=\'tommycharles\' date=\'Oct 1 2003, 01:11 PM\'][quote name=\'johnnya2k3\' date=\'Oct 1 2003, 02:11 AM\'] (I think Entertainment Tonight's are far, far back)! [/quote]
How often do the ET archives get used anyway? 300 or so eps / year and once in a while an interview clip is dragged out. This has to be frustrating for Paramount to keep these.[/quote]
It's 312 shows a year, since they don't repeat and they produce six times a week (I believe they even fed a show on Sept. 11, 2001).
For the archives, they have \"ET in TV Land\" and the nostalgia pieces they do on the weekend show.
And compared to the news archives of the Big 3 networks, \"ET\"'s archives aren't that much room.
rugrats1:
--- Quote ---It's 312 shows a year, since they don't repeat and they produce six times a week (I believe they even fed a show on Sept. 11, 2001).
--- End quote ---
Though I think they pre-record a few \"backup\" episodes, just in case. When the LA riots occurred in 1992, there was no \"live\" ET show, but they transmitted a backup episode that was copyrighted a year before, in 1991. Also, the backup show that day did not mention a date, which was always mentioned on the \"live\" shows.
--- Quote ---For the archives, they have \"ET in TV Land\" and the nostalgia pieces they do on the weekend show.
--- End quote ---
I think MTV and VH1 also have ET shows as well.
trainman:
[quote name=\'rugrats1\' date=\'Oct 1 2003, 02:37 PM\'] Though I think they pre-record a few "backup" episodes, just in case. When the LA riots occurred in 1992, there was no "live" ET show, but they transmitted a backup episode that was copyrighted a year before, in 1991. Also, the backup show that day did not mention a date, which was always mentioned on the "live" shows. [/quote]
Yes, I can confirm that \"ET\" does a couple of \"evergreen\" shows each season. Paramount also sends them out on videotape to the client stations, for use on an individual basis, just in case a local station is having horrendous problems with its satellite receiving equipment, or something like that.
Re old broadcasts of NFL games: Given that neither NBC nor CBS managed to save a tape of their individual broadcasts of the first Super Bowl, and given what we know about how the networks felt about saving videotapes of game shows, I kind of wonder how many regular-season NFL games are in the networks' archives. Seems like whenever CBS or Fox show old game footage, even from just a couple of years ago, it's from NFL Films, not from their broadcasts.
johnnya2k3:
Two other shows that also do \"backup\" eps. are The 700 Club and Access Hollywood (dunno about Extra or Inside Edition). TBN only airs alternate 700 Club episodes during CBN's special telethon weeks.
Jonathan Allen
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