European public service broadcasters have begun to make parts of their programme archives available as online television archives. This article discusses the implications of this move for the relationship between television and memory. Contributing to discussions on mediated memory, it argues that online archives increasingly associate television as a medium with history and memory. Moreover, the article considers how cultural memory works in an online television archive. The article is based on an analysis of the Finnish public service broadcaster YLE's online archive Elävä arkisto ("The living archive"), focusing particularly on its section on television drama. Elävä arkisto is discusses in relation to the online archives of other European public service broadcasters.
