Top Value Television (TVTV)

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• Top Value Television (TVTV) Chronology

  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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