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by b112 1211 days ago
One day, the future may regard YouTube, as BBC, who recycled and overwrote Dr Who tapes to save a few bucks.

And lost handsomely as a result.
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wolfi1 1211 days ago
in fact, unfortunately, almost every TV station did that in that time, some of them preserved their material on film, but unfortunately not all of their material
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b112 1211 days ago
TV station?

Dr Who wasn't a daily, TV station talk show, and Studios tend to archive.

The BBC gets the footnote in history, here.

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WeylandYutani 1211 days ago
No it happened in my country too. Technology was pretty shit in the 60s, TV was a new medium for European public broadcasters and they had to budget.
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