Did you miss Foreign Correspondent last Tuesday? Need to follow television coverage of the 2007 Election! Do you or your students need access to Australian television news, current affairs and selected documentaries for teaching and research? You can access this content via a new database, TVNews. This database is on trial until 31 December 2007.
TVNews indexes Australian television news, current affairs and selected documentaries from the free-to-air networks. Each program is linked to digitised video content. All individual stories from a particular broadcast are indexed with a synopsis. You can browse titles included in the database or search content by keyword or title.
TVNews is updated daily, with stories appearing on evening news broadcasts usually available online the next morning.
Local nightly news programmes are from Melbourne broadcasts. Although programs are captured using Melbourne networks, almost 95% of the content is National. The ABC stateline program is available for all states and local news bulletins will be added if there is a demand.
The Library would appreciate your comments about this database. These comments are vital to the overall evaluation process and will have an important influence on whether the Library will subscribe to a database. If you are interested in this database please complete the Evaluation Form