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Lanesville TV (Channel 3) was a pirate television station set up by the Videofreex collective. The station used a transmitter donated by Abbie Hoffman to broadcast its signals. Member Bart Friedman compared it to later public access television stations. The group would refer to Lanesville TV as "probably America's smallest TV station."

At the time, Lanesville's population was too sparse to afford a cable television system. The station made its first broadcast on March 19, 1972, initially running half-hour weekly programs at 7pm on Sundays, before moving to Saturdays later in the year, as a result of a viewer poll. In 1976 the station was featured in WNET's Video Television Review, outlining its operations. Its programming consisted of "narrowcasting" local events.

Broadcasts closed in February 1977 and the collective was disbanded the following year.

References

  1. ^ MICHEL, KAREN (22 March 2015). "Decades Before YouTube, Video Pioneers Captured Turbulent Era". NPR. Archived from the original on 27 March 2015. Retrieved 29 March 2015.
  2. "About the Group". Videofreex.com Digital Archive 1969-2019. Archived from the original on 29 December 2022. Retrieved 29 December 2022.
  3. Lanesville TV
  4. Greetings from Lanesville
  5. Boyle, Deirdre (1997). Subject to Change: Guerrilla Television Revisited. Cary, NC, USA: Oxford University Press.
  6. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Report: A Micro-TV Service in the United States, by Parry Teasdale 1980
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