In 2009 when KATV, then owned by Allbritton Communications Company, donated the KATV News archive to the Pryor Center. Approximately 300 hours of film dating from the 1960s to the late 1970s had been preserved. The Pryor Center recovered those existing film reels and partnered with The Media Preserve to restore and digitize the film. The Media Preserve is digitizing the film frame-by-frame in a high-resolution format. The handwritten log sheets have been transcribed and time codes linking the titles to the video files have been added.
In September 2019, 26,000 videotapes recorded in the late 1970’s will be shipped to The Media Preserve to be digitized over the next year.