[James2001]

Thing is that as far as I know, the TVS archive was never thought to be 'lost'.

If you've been following said forum for as long as I have, such claims about the TVS archive, amongst numerous others that are just as false, regularly turn up, and it doesn't help that there's a couple of people on there who act like they have insider knowledge and talk with confident authority (when all they've done is spoken to someone at the broadcasters and production companies who likely don't know themselves), so people seem to take them at their word, and some of what they claim even spreads beyond the forum (The Big Breakfast changing from "the tapes are there but it needs cataloguing" to "most episodes are wiped" is probably the most high profile example- even Transdiffusion put it in an article!).

As to who's responsible for the Youtube account, I'd be very suprised if it's not Nic Ayling. He's been posting TVS content from master tapes on his other Youtube account for years, so he clearly has access to them, wherever they are. I seem to remember reading a few years back someone saying it was all still at Maidstone (which is likely why the people who have tried to contact Disney about TVS material, due to the ownership technically going to them after IFE and Fox, got told they didn't have them).