Vanderbilt Television News Archive
To view videos in Vanderbilt Television News Archive, please register for a personal account using your @rutgers.edu email address. Current students, staff, faculty, and emeriti are eligible for accounts. You can then find clips, add them to your basket, and check them out to view them in your account for a 14-day checkout period. You may check out up to 40 hours of clips a month. See Vanderbilt's tutorial for step-by-step guidance. Later in 2026, the site will switch to an improved login process using NetID.
Vanderbilt Television News Archive is a streaming video collection of news broadcasts by national television networks, including ABC, CBS, CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, NBC, and Newsmax. Its primary focus is national evening news broadcasts, but it also includes special news reports from these and other news networks. Special news reports cover major events in U.S. politics and history, including elections, political conventions, State of the Union Addresses, presidential speeches and news conferences, and more. Local news programs and news magazine programs (such as 60 Minutes and 20/20) are not included.
The collection is regularly updated with the latest broadcasts. In addition to keyword searching and browsing by date, the advanced search includes options to limit by broadcast type, segment type, network, contributor, location, topic, and more. Indexing and abstracts are at the story level for regular evening newscasts and at the report level for each special news report.
All programs can also be viewed for free in person by visiting the archive at Vanderbilt University. This database is the electronic counterpart and continuation of the print publication Television News Index and Abstracts.
August 5, 1968 - present.