COMMERCIALS, TRANSCRIPTS, AND MISC.

"I Saw It On TV..." A Guide to Broadcast and Cable Programming Sources

COMMERCIALS, TRANSCRIPTS, AND MISC.

Some "Donahue" videos are available from Films for the Humanities and Sciences, P.O. Box 2053, Princeton NJ 08540; telephone (800) 257- 5126.

Talk show videos: For individual programs from Phil Donahue, Jenny Jones, Rush Limbaugh, Sally Jessy Raphael, Jerry Springer, and Jane Whitney contact Video Archives, 41 Paoli Plaza, #3D, Paoli PA 19301; phone (800) 367-8433. Individual programs may be ordered over the telephone with a credit card; otherwise, requests must be pre-paid. Use a separate sheet for each tape ordered and containing your institution's name, address, and phone number; the name of the host; the air date of the show; and the topic or show name.

For a "700 Club" viewer guide, call (800) 333-CLUB or click on the "700 Club" link on the Christian Broadcasting Network home page.

Arbitron, the TV ratings company, can be contacted by calling (800) 638-7091.

Vanderbilt University has a Television News Archive which has taped the nightly newscasts of the "Big 3" networks since August 5, 1968, as well as every CNN evening broadcast since 1989. Copies of videotapes from the Archive's collection are loaned to individuals throughout the world for reference, study, classroom instruction, and research. The Archive produces a monthly guide to the collection called "Television News Index and Abstracts," which is also accessible through the web page.

Video Monitoring Service, (212) 613-2121, records everything from selected TV networks and keeps it for thirty days. Some network shows are available only from this service.

Multivision, Inc. "monitor[s] more than 100 markets (over 700 channels) for businesses and individuals, providing transcripts, videotapes and digital copies of content."

TVEyes searches TV broadcasts for user-specified keywords, then e-mails the user with a brief transcript when the keywords are found.