A brief overview of the history of guerrilla television in the United States until the early 1980's, focusing on the evolution of video collectives, and in particular the group TVTV. Delineates how early "video theaters" in lofts or galleries evolved into television collectives, which continued to evolve with changes in technology, media networks, and politics. The TVTV collective eventually created shows for cable access and for network television. Boyle discusses the idealogical changes the group went through as they became more focussed on a mass audience, rather than the goal of a narrowcast model. Boyle also discusses how guerrilla television emerged as a middle-ground between the competing styles of video artists and video documentarists. The style pioneered by TVTV resembled a video and television version the New Journalism.