I'm wagering that the entire archive will be available.
Jeff Jarvis has seen Howard's technology back-end, and said the whole shebang is on SANs in an office
outside of Sirius, and backed up at Howard's beach house. My theory is that Howard has known and been planning for this possibility for a long time. It may even be why the show hasn't been so entirely awesome -- harder to be motivated when the end is in sight and something more exciting is around the corner. He hinted at the Internet once in April! I would not be surprised to find out that the "renovations" at the Manhattan apartment were to put in a complete studio.
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Originally Posted by Jarvis
Start with Stern technology: Schick said they they digitize everything — every show, every bit of audio, every press clipping, even everything sent into the show. They scan all the fan mail. They scan dildoes. This adds up to 100 terabytes of data. That’s stored at Howard’s office in New York (outside Sirius) — which is in addition to the audio that’s stored, of course, at Sirius (and backed up in New Jersey), and in addition to the video archives. Howard’s own 100tb is backed up at Howard’s beach house. Howard’s office has a T1 and business-class cable and a direct link to Howard’s apartment, which also has business-class cable, like his beach house (which has CAT5 cable in every all and multiple wi-fi networks for Howard and guests). Serious shit.
On air, I asked Howard whether all this means that fans will someday have access to it. He said yes.
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