Internet Archive indexed 4.43M TV broadcasts since 2009 — now you can full-text search what TV said
moonsandhues · x · 2026-09-11
The Internet Archive has been quietly recording news channels for 17 years and indexing every closed caption — 4.43 million broadcasts going back to 2009. Its TV News Archive now lets you search the actual words people said on air: type a phrase and get the channel, date, timestamp, plus the surrounding 30-second clip.
This unlocks analyses television never intended: tracking how a phrase enters the language, comparing how four networks covered the same hour, or finding the exact broadcast that aired when something happened to you.
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