Nine PBS Data Loss: What Happened to 50 TB of TV History?

Nine PBS - the local PBS member station serving St. Louis, Missouri, not the national PBS organization - lost access to more than 50 TB of archival footage spa…

Colorado Court Orders Iron Mountain to Preserve Data and Cooperate

A Colorado court reportedly granted Nine PBS temporary relief, ordering Iron Mountain not to delete or overwrite the archived data and to cooperate in identifying a path…

Nine PBS Sues Iron Mountain Over Blocked Access

With Iron Mountain declining to release the archive directly - citing its contract with OSS, not Nine PBS - the station reportedly filed a separate legal action against…

Nine PBS Wins Ownership Judgment Against OSS

Nine PBS reportedly obtained a judgment confirming its ownership of the archived material after OSS went unresponsive - its website inactive and the company reportedly l…

Nine PBS Discovers Iron Mountain Holds the Servers

After losing access, Nine PBS traced its archive to an Iron Mountain data center in Denver and contacted the company directly - only to learn Iron Mountain's contract wa…

OSS Terminates Nine PBS's Access Without Warning

Nine PBS's contract with OSS expired and access was cut off immediately, reportedly without the 30-day data-retrieval window the agreement called for on termination.

Nine PBS's Routine Renewal Outreach Gets No Response

Nine PBS attempted to schedule a routine meeting with OSS to discuss renewing their storage agreement for 2026. OSS did not respond and gave no indication it did not int…

Nine PBS Contracts With OSS's Predecessor

Nine PBS began working with OSS and a predecessor company to store its growing digitized archive in the cloud, renewing the arrangement annually for several years withou…

KETC / Nine PBS Founded, Institutional Archive Starts

Nine PBS's institutional archive traces back to the station's early broadcasting years in the mid-1950s - the start of a collection that would eventually be digitized an…