Television programmes are increasingly viewed online. In Finland, public
service broadcaster YLE’s online archive Elävä arkisto (tr. the living
archive), established in 2006, has been a frontrunner in making
television programmes available online. Elävä arkisto houses thousands
of clips from television and radio programmes as well as films,
combining them with background articles and linking them to current
events.

Using Elävä arkisto as a case study, the article analyses
how forms of televisuality change when television programmes are made
available on an online archive. It looks at how Elävä arkisto remediates
television on the internet, combining elements of the online archive,
news media and social media. Taking the idea of televisual flow as a
starting point, the article suggests that the online archive contributes
to a new kind of intermedial flow, also enabling new forms of
televisual memory. The article draws attention to the coexistence of
historical layers of television culture, where online services develop
new uses for old television programmes.