User:Tanawat2002/List of international TV footage yet to be found (expanded version)

Cambodia
Time periods: 1966-1990s There is no footage before the monarchy was restored in 1993. On the other hand, a good chunk of footage from the 1990s has been archived by Angkorwat Production, but it would be nice to see a lot more. In addition, most footage during the time period is just TV programs.

Uganda
Time periods: 1963-1990s No footage before 2000 exists online, but this news footage may be recorded in the late 1990s.

Central African Republic
Time periods: 1974-early 2000s The only traces of pre-mid 2000s footage is news footage, but this news intro was probably recorded in the early 2000s.

Liberia
Time periods: 1964-present A lot of Liberian footage is missing, due to the civil wars that left Liberia as one of the poorest countries in the worl. The only pre-2000 footage is a comedy and a station ID.

Iran
Time periods: 1956-1988 Pahlavi-era TV has very little footage. There is also not a lot of footage during its war with Iraq. Some examples of Pahlavi-era TV include commercial break bumpers and a NIRT TV ident.

Nigeria
Time periods: 1959-1970s A lot of footage has yet to be found, but it has a higher turnout of footage than most African countries as the largest economy in Africa. The onlu footage during the time when NTA used to be a bunch of local stations is just some studio footage. Local TV on the other hand has very little footage before the mid-2010s, and the same is true for the other national channels.

Rwanda
Time periods: 1991-late 1990s The only traces of pre-2000 footage is a cheap news intro and studio footage, all from an anniversary video.

Republic of the Congo
Time periods: 1962-early 2000s For a long while, there was no footage before the mid-2000s, but now a TV ident and news intro from 1966 has been uploaded, which is still the only one.

Belize
Time periods: 1981-1990s Like the Republic of Congo, it was believed there were no archives before 2000, but now footage for Channel 5 news exists, but there is still little footage.

Bangladesh
Time periods: 1964-1990s There is barely any footage before the mid-1980s, but in particular, nearly all footage before 2000 is just commercials, music videos, and TV programs, and there is almost no motion graphics from this time period. There is also almost no footage before its independence in 1971, even though on Wikipedia, it is said that Bangladesh Television rarely practiced wiping and its archive has been carefully maintained. Bangladesh Television was PTV Dhaka before its independence.

Sierra Leone
Time periods: 1963-2000s No footage exists before the 2010s.

Madagascar
Time periods: 1967-1990s Almost no footage exists before the 2000s, and there is a very low turnout of local TV footage.

Burkina Faso
Time periods: 1963-early 2000s The only old footage is 2 videos of 90s news footage. There is no old footage beyond that, including VoltaVision.

Ethiopia
Time periods: 1964-1990s Not a lot of footage before 2000 exists, and the only traces of footage before the 1990s are a TV ident and 2 music videos. There is also a lot of missing footage from the other TV stations.

Libya
Time periods: 1968-2011 There is not a lot of footage during the Gaddafi era, moreso before the 2000s. The civil war has decreased the turnout of TV footage found.

Cuba
Time periods: 1950s-1970s The footage yet to be found is mainly before the 1980s, but also of the other channels like Tele Rebelde.

Myanmar
Time periods: 1979-1980s Most footage that was preserved in the 1980s are just of music videos and commercials, and there is little footage from the 1990s. A lot of footage from MRTV and Myawaddy TV has been removed from Facebook and YouTube after their accounts were deleted.

Vietnam
Time periods: 1966-1980s Not a lot of TV footage before 1990 exists, and there is a very low turnout of local TV footage. South Vietnam has a lot of photo archives but only a few video archives.

Indonesia
Time periods: 1962-1970s Almost no footage exists before 1980, and very low turnout of local TV footage. In fact, the earliest TV footage is from 1978.

Thailand
Time periods: 1955-1970s Like Indonesia, Thailand has little footage before 1980 and almost no footage of local TV stations.

Laos
Time periods: 1983-1990s The only pre-2000s footage is a cheap news intro. While this news intro is said to be used from late 1990s-early 2000s, the date for the original source is unknown.

Brunei
Time periods: 1975-1983, 1990s There's a good chunk of 80s TV footage, but there is no footage before its independence and barely any footage from the 1990s.

North Korea
Time periods: 1963-present Because North Korea is one of the most closed countries, it is no suprise that there is a low turnout of TV footage. In particular, there is almost no footage before the 2000s.

Equatorial Guinea
Time periods: 1968-mid 2000s Almost no footage exists before the late 2000s.

Gambia
Time periods: 1965-early 2000s The only footage before the mid-2000s is just a few music videos.

Ghana
Time periods: 1965-early 2000s Almost no footage before the 1990s exists, but most footage before the mid-2000s that is online are its old TV shows. There has never been an upload of an old ID.

Namibia
Time periods: 1979-1990s Almost no footage of TV before the 2000s, both when it just gained independence and when NBC was SWAUK SWABC.

Zimbabwe
Time periods: 1960s-1990s Only footage of pre-2000s TV are 2 videos of Rhodesia-era TV,  some news footage from the mid-1980s and TV DX footage from 1991.

Lesotho
Time periods: 1988-2016 Hardly any footage has been found before 2017, when LNBS founded its YouTube channel.

Eswatini
Time periods: 1978-2015 Like Lesotho, there is hardly any footage before the public TV broadcaster created its YouTube channel, in this case until 2016.

Angola
Time periods: 1975-1990s Like Cambodia, there's a good chunk of old TV footage found, but it would be nice to see a lot more. However, the majority of old TV footage isn't TV programs.

Morocco
Time periods: 1962-mid 1980s There is barely any footage before the late-1980s, but what's also missing is a CGI closedown ident from 1988.

Senegal
Time periods: 1965-early 2000s Turnout of old TV footage is lower than expected.

Tanzania
Time periods: 1972-1990s Only ITV Tanzania has footage before 2000. The other TV stations have no footage before the 2000s. The only existing Zanzibar TV footage are some music videos.

Gabon
Time periods: 1963-early 2000s The only old TV footage that exists are some TV DX footage  and a news report from 1982. Aside from that, there is none.

Seychelles
Time periods: 1983-early 2000s Very little footage has been found before the mid-2000s.

Mauritius
Time periods: 1964-1990s Only some footage exists before 2000.

Democratic Republic of the Congo
Time periods: 1966-1970s, 1996-2003 A lot of footage has yet to be found. Unlike nearly all countries in Africa, there is a lot of old TV footage, but the only footage before 1980 is some concerts and there is hardly any footage of TV during the Congo Wars. There is also almost no TV footage from the private channels such as Antenne A and Canal Kin TV)

Burundi
Time periods: 1975-early 2000s No footage exists before the mid-2000s.

Comoros
Time periods: 2006-present (except for early 2010s) Barely any footage has been found, but a lot of footage from the early 2010s has been uploaded by ORTCable.

Mauritania
Time periods: 1982-1990s The only pre-2000 footage that's online is a news intro and a national anthem video, and there is hardly any footage of local TV.

Guinea-Bissau
Time periods: 1987-2000s Almost no footage exists before the 2010s.

Togo
Time periods: 1973-1990s Only traces of pre-2000 footage is news footage uploaded by Une Histoire Togolaise.

Benin
Time periods: 1978-1990s Almost no footage before 2000 exists.

Guinea
Time periods: 1977-1990s The only pre-2000 footage is a news intro.

Zambia
Time periods: 1966-1990s Some TV footage before the 2000s was found, but it should be looked into more.

Malawi
Time periods: 1999-present Was probably never looked into. Only a limited number of footage exists and there is no footage of a sign-on or closedown.

Mozambique
Time periods: 1981-1990s There is almost no footage in the communist era, and there is also not much footage before 2000.

Eritrea
Time periods: 19??-present Like Malawi, only a limited number of footage exists, and there no footage of a sign on or closedown. It is unknown if Eri TV was a local station before independence.

Small Caribbean Islands
Includes Jamaica, US Virgin Islands, British Virgin Islands, Caribbean Netherlands, Anguilla, Saint Martin, Sint Maarten, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Antigua and Barbuda, Montserrat, Guadeloupe, Dominica, Martinique, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Grenada, Trinidad and Tobago, and Barbados. Time periods: 1960s-present Way more footage is out there than found, as they are frequently overlooked.. The Lesser Antilles have no old TV footage whatsoever besides Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago, and Antigua and Barbuda

Small Oceania Islands
Includes Palau, Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, Micronesia, Marshall Islands, Kiribati, Solomon Islands, Nauru, Vanuatu, New Caledonia, Fiji, Tuvalu, Tokelau, Wallis and Futuna, Samoa, American Samoa, Tonga, Niue, Cook Islands, and French Polynesia. Time periods: 1975-present Like the small Caribbean Islands, there is a lot of missing stuff, with a few stuff being found. Worth noting that Guam had TV months before Australia.

Lebanon
Time periods: 1959-1980s Due to civil war that ended in 1990, only a small amount of TV footage is found before then and there is no footage before it began in 1975.

Yemen
Time periods: 1964-present Both the north and south hardly have any footage, and the same is true with the current state due to ongoing civil war.

Oman
Time periods: 1974-1980s Besides its funky news intros, the turnout of old TV footage is low, mainly before the 1990s.

Syria
Time periods: 1960s-present While some footage has been found, there's still more out there, mainly during the 20th century. The ongoing civil war has significantly reduced the turnout of footage.

Greece
Time periods: 1966-1970s Low turnout of footage before the 80s, also not so much footage of local channels.

Venezuela
Time periods: 1952-1970s There is almost no footage before the 1980s, and there is very little footage of local TV. Due to the current criris, less footage is being archived.

Colombia
Time periods: 1954-1970s Not a lot of local TV and pre-1980 footage exists.

Austria
Time periods: 1955-early 1970s There is a lot of missing footage before the mid-1970s.

Belarus
Time periods: 1956-1980s Little amount of TV footage found before the 1990s, and there is very little footage of local TV.

Ukraine
Time periods: 1956-1980s Same as Belarus. On a side note, this includes the unrecognized Russian-annexed territories of Ukraine.

Moldova
Time periods: 1958-1990s Not so much old TV footage is out there, moreso of the USSR era.

Central Asia
Includes Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan. Time periods: 1956-1980s Kazakhstan has a lot of old TV footage found, but there's not so much before the 90s. The other 4 barely have footage before the 1990s.

Caucasia
Includes Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan, as well as the unrecognized states of Abkhazia, South Ossetia, and Artsakh. Time periods: 1956-1980s While there is a lot of old footage found, the turnout is rather low for other channels. There is also not so much footage before the 1990s and almost no footage from the unrecognized states.

Baltic States
Includes Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. Time periods: 1954-1990s Suprisingly, there is lot of missing footage before the 2000s, including in Latvia where finding an ID is difficult.

Bolivia
Time periods: 1969-1980s Not a lot of footage exists before 1990.

Guyana
Time periods: 1958-1990s Only a compilation of commercials exists as pre-2000 footage.

Suriname
Time periods: 1965-1990s Almost no footage exists before 2000, as well as the private TV stations.

Romania
Time periods: 1957-1980s Not much footage of Cold War era and local TV exists.

Nepal
Time periods: 1984-1990s There is not a lot of footage before the 2000s, as well as the obscure private TV channels.

Pakistan
Time periods: 1964-early 1980s Because a lot of old TV programs have been lost sometime in the early 1980s, there is a low turnout of footage before the mid-1980s, as well as the other channels like STN.

Afghanistan
Time periods: 1978-present There is almost no footage before and during war with the USSR, and also of the Northern Alliance and after the Taliban regime. Now that the Taliban has taken over, there will be less footage found.

United States
Time periods: 1928-present The United States has the bulk of TV footage that is archived, but there is still more footage to be found, mainly of rural areas TV as well as low powered stations and public access stations. There is also almost no footage before the late-1940s, and most NET-era public TV footage is just TV programs.

Puerto Rico
Time periods: 1954-early 1970s Not much footage exists before the mid-1970s.

Canada
Time periods: 1952-present Like the United States, Canada has a lot of footage found, but there's still some footage yet to be found, mainly rural areas and public access TV.

Australia
Time periods: 1956-mid 1960s Same as Canada, but there is a low turnout of footage before the late-1960s.

Australian External Territories
Time periods: 2011-present Norfolk Island, which is the only one to have a domestic TV service, has hardly any footage.

Brazil
Time periods: 1950s-early 1960s Like the United States, Canada, and Australia, Brazil has a lot of local TV footage yet to be found, albeit to a lesser degree than the aforementioned countries, but most stations still have little footage of local TV before the 1990s. There is also has not so much footage in the 1950s and early 1960s.

Japan
Time periods: 1950s Japan has a lot of archives up, but there is still more to be found, such as 1950s TV as well as local TV before the 1980s. TV archiving has become more dangerous thanks to copyright strikes on YouTube.

Mexico
Time periods: 1950-present Mexico has a very low turnout of educational and local TV footage, and also obscure cable channels.

Russia
Does not include Russian-occupied areas of Ukraine or Crimea Time periods: 1938-present There is not a lot a lot of footage of national TV before the mid-1970s, and also rural areas TV as every town has at least one TV station and it has the most TV stations in the world at 5,000.

China
Does not include Hong Kong, Macau, or Taiwan Time periods: 1958-1970s Barely any footage before 1980 is online. There is also a lot of missing local TV footage, mostly rural areas TV as there are is over 4,000 local city stations.

India
Time periods: 1959-1970s Like China, India has little footage before 1980, and a lot of missing footage for local TV stations. This may be because Doordarshan did not broadcast nationwide until 1982. Doordarshan has a lot of archives but payment is required to access the archives, which is unfortunate because a lot of European countries have public archives.

Philippines
Time periods: 1953-mid 1980s There is almost no footage before the Marcos era, and there is a low turnout footage during the Marcos era. Local TV has low turnout of footage. Filipino TV archives have been looked more into than most Asian TV archives.

Taiwan
Time periods: 1962-1980s No so much TV footage has been found, specifically of China Television and other obscure channels and mostly before the 1990s. There is only one compilation of Taiwanese idents so far, which is from TheIridiumic138.

Malaysia
Time periods: 1963-1970s There is a low turnout of footage before the 1980s.

Singapore
Time periods: 1963-1970s Unlike other small countries which are often overlooked, Singapore has a lot of footage found, but like Malaysia, there's not much footage before the 1980s.

South Korea
Time periods: 1956-1970s There is a lot of missing footage before the 1980s.

Saudi Arabia
Time periods: 1957-early 1980s There is barely any footage before the mid-1980s.

Switzerland
Time periods: 1953-1980s Suprisingly, there is a lot of missing footage before the 1980s, even though SRF has uploaded a good chunk of pre-1980 footage that is mostly TV programs.

Maldives
Time periods: 1978-present Very little footage has been found from this small island country.

Mongolia
Time periods: 1967-1990s For a while, there was little pre-2000 footage, but now a lot of documentaries have been discovered from the MNB archives, but aside from that, the turnout of old footage is very low.

United Kingdom
Time periods: 1936-1940s There is barely any footage before the 1950s. Aside from ITV, local TV before the 2000s wasn't so successful. The less known cable channels also have a low turnout of footage.

Akrotiri and Dhekelia
Time periods: 19??-present BFBS TV, which only broadcasts there, has very little footage because it is only available to the armed forces.

Bermuda
Time periods: 1958-present Only footage that has been found comes from the TV channels' official social media accounts, aside from that, none.

Gibraltar
Time periods: 1962-present Like most small countries, little footage has been found.

Turks and Caicos
Time periods: 1995-present Only WIV4 has footage online. The other channels have no footage whatsoever.

France
Time periods: 1935-1940s There is almost no footage before the 1950s. Aside from that, the footage yet to be found is mainly obscure TV channels.

French overseas regions and collectivities
Time periods: 1964-present A lot of footage has yet to be found.

Poland
Time periods: 1952-early 1980s Not too much footage before the mid-1980s is availbale, and there is also little footage of local TV before the mid-1990s.

Türkiye
Time periods: 1952-early 1970s Almost no footage before the mid-1970s, and also local TV. There is only 1 TV ident before the 1980s and İTÜ TV has no video or even photo archives.

Belgium
Time periods: 1953-1960s German-speaking TV has no footage before the mid-2000s, also not a lot of footage in the 1950s-1960s.

Ireland
Time periods: 1961-1990s A suprising low amount of footage of the other TV channels before 2000.

Denmark
Time periods: 1951-1970s Also lower than expected turnout of old TV footage but only in some fields. There is barely any footage before 1980.

Faroe Islands and Greenland
Time periods: 1982-present Not so much footage has been found.

Czechia
Time periods: 1953-1970s Mostly Czechoslovakian TV before the 1980s, as well as local TV.

Slovakia
Time periods: 1953-1970s Mostly Czechoslovakian TV before the 1980s, as well as local TV.

Vatican City
Time periods: 1983-present Could use more footage archiving.

Argentina
Time periods: 1951-1970s Low footage turnout before the 1980s, and also the more rural local TV.

Peru
Time periods: 1958-1970s Also has a low turnout of footage before 1980, and a lot of missing rural local TV footage.

Chile
Time periods: 1952-1970s Same as Argentina and Peru.

Ecuador
Time periods: 1959-1980s There is a somewhat low turnout of footage found, mostly before the 1980s.

Dominican Republic
Time periods: 1952-1980s Same as Ecuador but to a greater extent.

Paraguay
Time periods: 1959-1990s Turnout of old TV footage is lower than expected.

Central America
Includes Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama. Time periods: 1955-1980s Other than the aforementioned Belize, there is a lot of missing local TV footage and footage before the 1990s.

former Yugoslavia
Includes Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro, North Macedonia, and Kosovo. Time periods: 1956-1960s There is a lot of archived footage up, but on some fields there's not much. There is not a lot of footage befofe the 1970s.

Iceland
Time periods: 1966-early 1980s Almost no footage before the mid-1980s.

Bulgaria
Time periods: 1959-1990s More TV footage is out there than what is found, particularly before 2000.

United Arab Emirates
Time periods: 1969-1990s Could use some more old TV archiving, also low turnout of footage from the other emirates.