TVX (Australia):

Albie Thoms (previously of Ubu Films) had been in Britain and Europe showing his film Marinetti over 1970. While there he had attended the Isle of Wight festival in the UK and,  with other expatriates including some of the Oz Magazine people, had organised a daily news-sheet for the festival called the Freek Press.

Not long after Thoms returned to Australia, David Elfick, the Sydney editor of Go Set magazine, invited him to produce a similar daily news sheet at "The Odyssey" Festival, which was to be held at Wallacia, in NSW, from 22nd to 24th January 1971.1 Thoms got together with Phil Noyce, Aggy Read and Mick Glasheen, and with support from Go Set magazine and several record companies, they purchased a couple of typewriters and a Roneo printing outfit and set up Rubbish, which was edited and printed in a tent at the festival.

Glasheen had suggested to Thoms that they should try and get a video portapak to gather stories for Rubbish from people at the festival. They asked the Japanese electronics company, Akai, who had recently released their ¼” portapak in Australia, to lend them one, which Akai duly did, and this led to an access model involving the short-term loan of equipment to anyone who felt that they could make recordings of local events.

At "The Odyssey" Read and Glasheen were the main 'reporters' gathering video and reporting on the many aspects of the festival; interviewing everyone from organisers and performers to festival-goers and the police. The video was then played back in the tent as the TVX video news service, and it also provided info for stories in the paper. They didn’t have much tape so it was recorded over each day.

The description of TVX in the Rubbish news-sheet indicates the intent:

[at the Rubbish tent] … you will also see TVX’s portable video system keeping an up to the minute record of events at the festival and playing them back instants after they have happened. RUBBISH reporters are going about the festival making interviews and bringing them back to our tent for replay. If you see TVX in action go and talk to the reporters and help record the action. Portable video is accessible to all, and many of today’s tapes were recorded by festival freaks themselves.2

References:

1 See http://www.milesago.com/festivals/wallacia.htm

2 Rubbish: Pop Festival Community Paper, no. 2, 23 January 1971, p.2.