The facts are scary. It's estimated that 80% of 200 million hours of radio and television archives are expected to vanish by 2015. So, in December 2005, the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the Federation of International Television Archives (FIAT), the World Broadcasting Unions and individuals from the UN grouped together in the hopes of locating archives at risk, in order to save them for the future.

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