Bay Area Television Archive

09/11/2026

We've just released some rare archival footage of street performer Norbert Yancey singing around Ghirardelli Square, shot by KPIX-TV in 1970. Link to video in Comments.

09/04/2026

This is a backdated release of 14 newly available KTVU newsfilm clips from the late 1960s. The Christmas shoppers from 1968 serve up some old fashioned, feisty viewing! Another batch release from other collections will follow later this month ... [link to view clips in the comments]

08/12/2026

We finally got our main computer's logic board replaced, which is back up and running after 1-month of inaction. The ScanStation film scanner was still working, so we'll be releasing a bunch of TV news clips online soon, featuring amongst others: Charles Schultz; Al Attles; LaVerne Williams and Richard Oakes. Watch this space.

07/13/2026

Please note that our DIVA archive website will be down from Friday July 24 - Tuesday July 28, for electrical upgrades to our data center. You won't be able to view our clips online in DIVA while this work is being done. Thanks.

06/18/2026

We're proud that film footage from our KPIX Collection featuring the Black Panthers at a 1968 rally in Oakland is being featured in the new Obama Presidential Center Museum. The Obama Foundation were also great to work with.

The Museum presents the remarkable story of President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama, America’s first Black president and First Lady.

06/18/2026

13 new clips were released today in DIVA, which can be watched now. Including a profile of Willie McCovey, scenes of N***s on Broadway, and the first two Oakland A's Hot Pants Days at the Oakland Coliseum: https://diva.sfsu.edu/collections/sfbatv/search

06/18/2026

We just released this KRON-TV "profile" of Berkeley from 1978, which will seem familiar to folks who've lived there, anytime during the last 60 years: https://diva.sfsu.edu/collections/sfbatv/bundles/241753

05/28/2026

There's some fascinating scenes in this KRON coverage of what was perhaps San Francisco's largest anti-Vietnam march on April 24, 1971. Rock music punctuates obvious tensions within the massive crowd, played out on-screen as bodies are slammed together and break apart ... [link to video in Comments]

05/28/2026

We just released 16 new clips from the Television Archive today, which run the gamut from Loose Gravel rehearsing and Don Rickles attacking, to Miss San Francisco being crowned and American N***s getting blitzed at SF State ... Link to the 'Explore' page in DIVA in the Comments.

05/28/2026

We just released KRON's film footage shot at the Fillmore Auditorium (1805 Geary Blvd.) in May 1966 featuring The Velvet Underground & Nico. They appear 2:53 into the clip, after an interview with Bill Graham from July 1971. Thanks again to Alec Palao for his gracious help. [link to video in Comments].