For broadcasters, buying finished content rather than producing it in-house can save costs, reduce risks and provide a greater variety of quality content, but it also means less involvement in creative development, dependence on third parties and loss of professional knowledge. Production companies can provide original content to the archive and, in turn, broadcasters can provide them with access to their extensive archive of historical content. How is this archive-producer relationship organized? Heads of national archives will share experiences and outline potential lines of collaboration.
