Hi Kim, I'll be the outlier and suggest that it wouldn't be death defying to record 10 minutes out of a 2 hour long news program and put a copy in your collection, especially if it was treated as an archival, in-library-use item. Vanderbilt (http://tvnews.vanderbilt.edu/) has been recording TV news since 1968 and they still exist, despite a failed lawsuit by CBS.
In the Library of Congress' "A Report on the Current State of American Television and Video Preservation" (http://www.loc.gov/film/tvstudy.html), there's the following: "in view of the unconscionable practice of recycling news tapes, local archives should be encouraged to set up off-air taping programs of news programs as permitted under the Copyright Act of 1976." Since late 2010 we have been recording evening news programming from Seattle's major network affiliates and making the recordings--commercials, warts and all--available to researchers within our library only. I know that some may suggest that nightly news programming is "hard news", and that the news show you are interested in may be "soft news", but after watching some of our local news I'm wondering if there's much of distinction anymore. On the topic of recording copyrighted material, I would be interested to hear feedback from videolibers on this site: http://criticalcommons.org John _________ John Vallier Head, Distributed Media UW Libraries Media Center vall...@uw.edu 206-616-1210 http://lib.washington.edu/media http://faculty.washington.edu/vallier VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic control, preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as an effective working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of communication between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and distributors.
