A history of the Rockefeller Foundation's support of video art. The author attributes the Foundation's interest in video to Nam June Paik's ongoing role as advisor to Howard Klein, the main media arts funder. She documents Klein's support for artist's video via public television, offering continued funding to public stations that provided top-of-the-line equipment and broadcast time to artists. The author emphasizes the individual directors behind these television labs, and individual artists, whose personal relationship with Klein propelled funding, in contrast to the panel-reviewed organizational structure that dominates at the time of writing. Whether the best use of funding is to provide for individual artists, thus putting limits on access, or supporting facilities and organizations and the bureaucracy that comes with them is discussed in detail.