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Originally Posted by calvin-c
Ever tried to get copies of old TV or radio shows? Two words: Im Possible. The problem might be the lack of archiving technology back in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Yet a few keep turning up-is it like fossils or is it that they're still under copyright?
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That's a little early even for radio. If wikipedia is to be believed broadcast radio really started in the 1920s and TV was a little after. So it's lack of content to be archived as much as the technology itself (though right up to the mid-20th century it was common to broadcast but not record, and of course archiving was expensive - <insert anecdote about lost Dr Who episodes etc here>).
So I suspect it that's rather than the limitations of copyright.