Established in 1981, the TV Archive preserves 6000 hours of newsfilm, documentaries and other TV footage produced in the Bay Area and Northern California from the Twentieth Century. We are a part of the J. Paul Leonard Library's Department of Special Collections and oversee material owned by local TV stations KPIX-TV, KRON-TV, KQED, KNTV, and KTVU.

Media reports featuring the Television Archive

Watch local TV special reports about the Television Archive and our work.

Over the past 10 years we've interviewed local TV filmmakers, broadcasters and people who helped to shape Bay Area history.

Judge Saundra Brown Armstrong

The Making of Take this Hammer

The Television Archivist

 

Alex Cherian has been our resident Television Archivist since emigrating to the US in 2007. Alex first began using archival media to teach Shakespearean Tragedy at Newcastle University (UK) in 1998 and has dedicated his career to preserving regional moving image collections and providing access to them.