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Entertainment Tonight Digitizes 11,600 Episodes for Future Generations

3/23/2026

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Entertainment Tonight (ET) launched in 1981 and has become a staple of pop culture news.
The program, with Kevin Frazier and Nischelle Turner, has amassed over 200,000 hours of archival footage.
ET is digitizing and preserving more than 11,600 episodes to keep content accessible.
Archive segments include William Shatner promoting the Endangered Species Act in 1987.
The vault serves as a repository and generates revenue through celebrity documentaries and retrospectives.

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Story summary

Entertainment Tonight (ET) launched in 1981 and has become a staple of pop culture news.
The program, with Kevin Frazier and Nischelle Turner, has amassed over 200,000 hours of archival footage.
ET is digitizing and preserving more than 11,600 episodes to keep content accessible.
Archive segments include William Shatner promoting the Endangered Species Act in 1987.
The vault serves as a repository and generates revenue through celebrity documentaries and retrospectives.