DAS | Miles and Miles of Texas

Austin City Limits (ACL) is the longest running music show in television history and is a proud recipient of the National Medal of Arts and a Peabody Award. ACL has featured performances from hundreds of legendary artists and bands, including Willie Nelson, Loretta Lynn, Ray Charles, Roy Orbison, Alison Krauss, Neil Young, LCD Soundsystem, St. Vincent, and Kendrick Lamar. ACL is produced by (and aired on) KLRU, Austin, Texas’s PBS station.

Throughout its 45 seasons, the producers of the show have recorded thousands of miles of video and audio tape, resulting in thousands of hours of tapes to digitize, catalog and make accessible as well as hundreds of terrabytes of data to store and properly back up and manage. The ACL Archive team just completed the migration of all of the show’s video assets, gathered the majority of associated data and is on to phase II, digitizing multitrack and broadcast master audio tapes. We’ll discuss how all of this is done with a core team of 2, on a public TV station budget, while still in production.

Speakers: Amanda Moore, Technical Project Director, KLRU TV, Austin; and James Cole, Video Specialist – Content Manager, KLRU-TV Austin

June 5, 2019 | New York