Retired BAMPFA film curator Steve Seid interviews TVTV members Megan Williams and Allen Rucker about  TOP VALUE TELEVISION. TVTV began in 1972 when a group of mediamakers, artists, and activists used brand-new portable videotape equipment to document the '72 Democratic and Republican presidential conventions. At a time when TV news reporters were weighed down by enormous packs of expensive equipment and gear, this band of "braless, blue-jeaned video freaks," as "Newsweek" called them, set out to revolutionize not only how to capture the news, but how to reframe the daily news cycle. With the sensibilities of the underground and cutting-edge consumer video tech, TVTV and a loose global network of video guerrillas spearheaded community-based news, citizen journalism, and democratized media that continue to gain relevance in the run-up to the 2020 presidential conventions.

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