In spring 1984 Alternative Views began sending program tapes to Public-access TV contacts in Dallas and San Antonio.
There were other producers and hosts, many of whom were drawn from Kellner's philosophy courses, including Ali Hossaini, Tommy Pallotta, Noah Khoshbin, Richard Linklater, Steven Best, James Scott and Danny Postel.
Alternative Views landed many significant interviews during its run, and it was often ahead of mainstream media in identifying major stories.
Early shows included long-form interviews with Senator Ralph Yarborough, a Texas progressive responsible for legislation like the National Defense Education Act, and then–Congressman and Libertarian presidential hopeful Ron Paul.
Other interviewees included: In addition, Alternative Views broadcast many documentaries, both self-produced and produced by others,(including one about the assassination of JFK)[4] and it screened raw video footage of the bombing of Lebanon and aftermath of the Sabra and Shatila massacre, of the assassinations of five communist labor organizers by the Ku Klux Klan in Greensboro, North Carolina, and of counterrevolutionary activity in Nicaragua.