Bay Area Television Archive

10/08/2026

We've just released an Emmy Award winning KPIX special report from 1980 called 'Cruising Mission Street', featuring social conflict over lowrider car culture in the Mission District. This footage will be screened in a panel discussion at SFSU Library, Room 286, from 12:30pm-1:30pm on October 15: 'Latinas in Lowriding Culture', with Valerie Tulier-Laiwa, Ruby Ramirez, and Lucia Araiza Uribe.

09/29/2026

We've just released a TV drama from 1954, presented by students of San Jose State University and broadcast by KPIX-TV, called 'Thin Like Tortillas'. It's much earlier than most of our TV material and is set among Mexican migrant workers in the Santa Clara Valley during the Depression years of 1935-36. Link to clip in the 'Comments'.

09/11/2026

We've just released this biker funeral footage from September 9, 1966, shot by KRON-TV in San Francisco and Colma. If anyone can tell us who this funeral was for, we'd be grateful. I couldn't find any mention of it in the SF Chronicle or Examiner. The grieving family seen on camera appear to be Asian American and the only visible patch is for the South Bay chapter of the Gypsy Joker MC. Any tips or suggestions would be much appreciated! Thanks. The photo image is a freeze frame, grabbed from a 4K scan of the original 16mm negative film elements, shot by KRON-TV, who looked the report on 9/9/1966. [link to video in Comments]

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