CTV Ottawa did not back up it's archives. What were they thinking?

First off, I would like to say that everybody at CTV Ottawa are all OK after the fire in the newsroom. According to reports, as the newsroom was on the second floor and their local archives were on the first floor I am guessing their archives suffered some water damage. Apparently they did not develop a disaster recovery plan to recover the archives in the event of a disaster. I find this highly unusual that with technology available to digitize VHS tape and possibly reels of film, that such a project was not undertaken. About 30 years ago, the local Ottawa station was also used as a small to medium size production facility. Among the shows they produced was "You can't do that on television" circa 1970's. If they wanted to digitally archive in a rush, they could have put on YouTube using a producers account. I admit that would not be the best archiving method but it would be among the least expensive and even if they had lost content to the fire or water it would have been backed up on a web server. Of course, there are many digital archiving companies that could have been used or if you wanted to keep it strictly in house, they could break up the archive and use their own production facility and personnel to make digital copies of the data/content. Ironically, when a local station gets a new episode of a TV show, it's usually on some kind of digital medium or the even more high tech way of receiving new material is the producer of the show sends it over as a digital feed to be rebroadcast on the network. This technique doesn't allow copying of the feed. If that's how modern TV shows can be delivered, then digitizing ones archive is a very easy task. At the end of the day, this reminds me of an old IT adage; always back up your files.