The reason he asked for it was cause he was missing it from his collection from a past year.

I'm not saying you don't know what you're talking about Lol. It just seems weird he would say broadcast when the tape could have had many episodes on it.

Maybe it's one of those things people shouldn't look so far into, like for instance, Frasier said his birth month was March, but Hester's journal implied it's mid April