Vanderbilt Television News Archive

The Vanderbilt Television News Archive, a department of the Vanderbilt University Library in Nashville, Tennessee, is a collection of U.S. national network news programs (1968–present) available on a loan basis to all researchers. The collection includes evening news and selected other news programs (specials) from ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC, and Fox, with occasional items from CNBC, MSNBC, PBS, and others.

The Archive makes its materials available through tape loans and in-house viewing. A premium subscription package is available to educational institutions. The tape loans take two forms. The best for most researchers is the compilation of items from the evening news. The borrower creates a list of individual news items to be viewed, and these are put together on videotape or in the near future on ...