Top Value Television (TVTV)
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 production 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.
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"Top Value Television (TVTV)." Video History Project, Experimental Television Center, 2011. https://www.videohistoryproject.org/top-value-television-tvtv.
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Top Value Television (TVTV) is a San Francisco–based independent documentary production group that provided alternative coverage of the Democratic and Republican conventions in Miami; the group achieved the first use of half-inch videotape on broadcast television. Original production was by Hudson Marquez, Allen Rucker, Michael Shamberg, Tom Weinberg, Megan Williams and members of the Ant Farm, Raindance and Videofreex collectives; other members included Wendy Apple, Michael Couzens, Paul Goldsmith, Betsy Guignon, Stanton Kaye, Anda Korsts, Andy Mann and Elon Soltes.
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