> “Thank goodness she did that because [otherwise] we would have no records of the early years of the first Women’s Hockey League in Canada,” Azzi said.
With the help of many industry partners, the [Canada Media Fund] CMF team unearthed Canadian gems buried in analog catalogues. Once discovered, we worked to secure permissions and required rights and collaborate with third parties to digitize the works, including an invaluable partnership with Deluxe Canada that covered 40 per cent of the digitization costs. The new, high-quality digital masters were made available to the rights holders and released to the public on the Encore+ YouTube channel in English and French.
In late 2022, the channel deleted the entire Youtube Encore archive of Canadian television, with two weeks notice. A few months later, half of the archive resurfaced on https://archive.org/search?query=creator%3A%22Encore%20%2B%2.... If anyone independently archived the missing Encore videos from Youtube, please mirror them to Archive.org.
A few years ago, Canada digitized many older television shows, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35716982
In late 2022, the channel deleted the entire Youtube Encore archive of Canadian television, with two weeks notice. A few months later, half of the archive resurfaced on https://archive.org/search?query=creator%3A%22Encore%20%2B%2.... If anyone independently archived the missing Encore videos from Youtube, please mirror them to Archive.org.