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You're thinking of film cameras used for motion pictures. While some shows were shot on 35mm or 16mm film, you're forgetting that a ton of television particularly in the 70s, 80s, and 90s was shot with 525-line analog NTSC TV cameras. This was especially true for lower budget productions like most PBS content. Nobody's bringing out the 35mm camera for an all-night live fundraising telethon, that's way too expensive.
This stuff was stored using reel to reel video tape recorders on 2" Quadruplex film or later on U-matic or Betacam tapes (if your station was lucky enough to get one. You might have just made do with 2" Quad til the station manager eventually bought a consumer VHS recorder some time in the 80s.)