A reason for cable/digital/satellite...

The Thinker spent an evening watching the BBC's coverage of the 1970 General Election on BBC Parliament. It's things like that that make me think 'hmm, maybe I ought to get a digibox or whatever' as I'm sure it would be fascinating to have watched. You could probably get a few viewers for a kind of general 'News Gold' channel that rebroadcast old news broadcast and coverage. Not only would the minutiae of the coverage be interesting, what might be of some historical interest is to see how events were reported at the time and what people were thinking and saying right then, rather than with the benefit of hindsight.