Top Value Television (TVTV), San Francisco, founded; Independent documentary production group providing alternative coverage of the Democratic and Republican conventions in Miami; the first use of half-inch videotape on broadcast television. Original produciton by Hudson Marquez, Allen Rucker, Michael Shamberg, Tom Weinberg, Megan Williams, and members of Ant Farm, Raindance, and Videofreex collectives; other members of TVTV include Wendy Apple, Michael Couzens, Paul Goldsmith, Betsy Guignon, Stanton Kaye, Anda Korsts, Andy Mann and Elon Soltes