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About this resource

TVNews indexes Australian television news, current affairs and selected documentaries from the free-to-air networks with links to the digitised video content in a compressed format. All individual stories from a particular broadcast are indexed with a detailed synopsis. TVNews enables the searching, browsing, tracking and alerting of television events/items and programs. It is updated daily, with stories appearing on an evening news broadcast generally being available for access the next morning. Selected items/programs can be downloaded to the desktop in compressed format. Items range from under 30 seconds for short stories, to an hour for documentaries.

  • Data Format: Text (HTML) and compressed video (WMV) files.
  • Frequency of updates: Continously updated

Subject headings

  • Television broadcasting of news--Australia--Databases.
  • Current events--Australia--Databases.
  • Documentary films--Australia--Databases.
  • Television programs--Australia--Databases.
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    Accessing databases