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zachhoran:
[quote name=\'uncamark\' date=\'Oct 1 2003, 01:18 PM\']
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. [/quote]
Those nostalgia pieces are more feasible to show as reruns than the Entertainment This Week shows ET used to do on the weekends for its first decade or so on the air.
ChrisLambert!:
[quote name=\'trainman\' date=\'Oct 1 2003, 05:41 PM\'] [quote name=\'rugrats1\' date=\'Oct 1 2003, 02:37 PM\'] 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. [/quote]
Thta's not out of negligence, but rather an NFL demand. They insist that games only be shown in Film version, as soon as a couple of weeks after they're played.
Ian Wallis:
In reading some of the responses, I started thinking about something else: it seems that the networks were more careful about saving old soap opera episodes than they were about old game shows.
I know that a lot of old soaps no longer exist, but I've also heard that ABC apparantly has \"All My Children\" episodes from as far back as 1970.
That kind of surprises me...
aaron sica:
[quote name=\'Ian Wallis\' date=\'Oct 2 2003, 07:56 AM\'] I know that a lot of old soaps no longer exist, but I've also heard that ABC apparantly has \"All My Children\" episodes from as far back as 1970.
That kind of surprises me... [/quote]
Inbetween the time that \"The City\" went off and \"Port Charles\" premiered in 1997, ABC programmed the 12:30pm slot with some classic episodes of their soaps (with some episodes broken up over 2 days to compensate for the half hour time slot)..
The first one they ran was AMC, but if I remember right, all they had available was a B&W kinescope when they ran the 1970 episodes..
Jimmy Owen:
I think the fact that ABC produced and owned most of their soaps is a big factor in their survival, yet you don't see the '70's episodes on SoapNet (save the occasional \"Ryan's Hope,\") so it's as if they don't exist. I would guess Procter and Gamble have all of their shows tucked away somewhere. P&G's \"Another World\" is supposed to be rerun soon, but only the last few years of the run. Tying this to game shows, because the nets do not own them (the old ones anyway) there is no incentive to keep property that they can't exploit. If a friend gave you some tapes to store at your house and didn't care what you did with them, what would you do?
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