70 years of St. Louis history is stuck in a Denver data center, PBS station claims

The Denver Post: A St. Louis PBS station says its 70-year archive of programming is stuck in a Denver data center after a cloud storage company cut off the TV station’s access to the 50 terabytes of data this spring.

Nine PBS filed a lawsuit Tuesday in Denver District Court seeking the safe return of the data, which the station’s attorneys believe is being stored within Iron Mountain Data Centers DEN-1, a data center at 4300 Brighton Road in north Denver.

The digital archive of TV shows, videos, photos and other material is “culturally important to the St. Louis area and most of it is unique and irreplaceable,” the lawsuit reads. A court filing lists more than 11,000 files, many with names that mention key St. Louis historical figures, including educator Susan Blow, jazz musician Willie Akins and artist Roscoe Misselhorn. Other files were labeled “gospel aerobics,” “dancing doctors,” “bison hunt,” and “fiddle kid,” the court filing shows.

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