[5] Due to the high cost of rent in SoHo, several members of Videofreex including Teasdale decided to leave the city but remain part of the collective.
[6] Having received a grant of $40,000 from the Rochester Museum and Science Center,[6] several Videofreex moved to a large house in Lanesville, a rural village located in the southern part of Hunter, New York in the Catskill Mountains.
Here, they began to produce live "narrowcasts" (Boyle 1997, p. 88) [4] for the local community every Saturday night,[6] and the Lanesville TV project became the first unauthorized television program.
He contributed to the editing of the independent documentary The World's Largest TV Studio, (Boyle 1997, p. 87),[4] which provided coverage of the 1972 Democratic National Convention in Miami Beach, Florida.
[8] Teasdale did not participate in the production of its Republican counterpart, Four More Years, instead turning his attention to independent television in his pursuit of liveness and the unconventional (Boyle 1997, p. 44).