Lost television broadcast

"Lost episode" redirects here. For other uses, see Lost episode (disambiguation).
A still from the original slow-scan television broadcast of the Apollo 11 moon landing, which has since been lost to time.

Lost television broadcasts are television programs that were not preserved or recorded after their broadcasting — thus making them lost to time. They cannot be found in studio archives nor in any other historical record. This phenomenon primarily affects shows or movies that aired before the widespread use of home video recording and digital archiving.[1]

  1. ^ says, Cherry Gale (2024-07-02). "Unravelling the mystery of lost television". National Science and Media Museum blog. Retrieved 2024-11-26.