Hope she doesn't mind, but am posting an excerpt from an email reply from Ms. Kitchie Benedicto sent last year:
Thank you for your email. I am sorry I answered quite late. I just came back from the USA after being there for 3 1/2months. Unfortunately most of the tapes were left in broadcast city when the coup of Cory occurred. I have a few programs in the betamax format which I intend to transfer to a vcd . Some tapes which are in the 3 inch wide format will be too expensive to transfer and am not even sure if there are any available machines to run them for a transfer. Sayang no? Nakakaiyak nga...
talagang nakakaiyak. when we were editing some clips for the ibc 13 reunion special, wala kaming makita kahit isang episode na buo ng see thru ni ate luds. dun kasi sa 13 nagsimula yun e. so we contacted ate luds. she lent us some BETAMAX tapes. kahit sya, betamax tapes din ang meron sya.
ang sistema kasi before sa broadcast (both ibc and rpn), especially nung panahon ng umatic tapes, pag wala ng stock ng umatic tapes na gagamitin, nagbubura sila ng previously used tapes. e ang mga yun minsan kopya ng isang old episode or material tapes na ginamit.
naging magulo kasi ang archiving sa broadcast after edsa rev (bbc, ibc, rpn all owned by the benedictos, later sequestered by pcgg.) e di lalo na yung bbc channel 2 before. yun ang pumalit sa ere after abs left during martial law. pagbalik nila after edsa rev, nawala sa ere yung bbc. ngayon, im sure wala ni isang tape sa show ng bbc. take note, dun una galing ang variety show ni vilma santos, yung vilma. which became vip sa gma 7.
kahit yata voltes v na inere sa 13 e wala na. at ang malupit, lahat ng shows na ndi naka-umatic e walang kopya. puro old pictures na lang. flordeluna nga sa rpn wala na sila raw e.