C-SPAN is a USA television channel covering National News.
Launched on March 19, 1979, C-SPAN (the Cable Satellite Public Affairs Network) is an American cable television network featuring live coverage of the U.S. House of Representatives. The network also presents Washington Journal live each morning. C-SPAN is a private, non-profit company created in 1979 by the cable television industry as a public service. It receives no funding from any government. All programs are unedited, uncensored and commercial free and with few voice over announcements.
It is one of the best American media outlets, according to Mondo Times members.
This television channel is owned by National Cable Satellite Corporation.
Mailing address: 400 N. Capitol St. NW, Suite 155, Washington, DC 20001
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-- Cable cord-cutting is changing the game for C-SPAN, the home of live coverage of federal government proceedings. Now is it luring viewers with timely posts on YouTube, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. It also sells hats and t-shirts.
Michael Shaffer wrote at Politico on May 13, 2022:
C-SPAN Has Been Walloped by Cord-Cutting. Inside the Network's Unlikely Fight for Eyeballs.
Posted by Mondo Times editors, Boulder, Colorado USA, May 27, 2022
-- Forty years on, the C-SPAN call-in show is still going strong, just letting people have an open forum.
Jen Kirby wrote the story for Vox on February 12, 2020:
Why C-SPAN’s quirky call-in show has endured for 40 years
Posted by Mondo Times editors, Boulder, Colorado USA, February 20, 2020
-- The pair will replace C-SPAN founder Brian Lamb, who transitions to the role of executive chairman of the C-SPAN board.
Glenn Britt, chairman of the C-SPAN board's executive committee, said, "Rob Kennedy and Susan Swain are veteran C-SPAN executives with a deep sense of the C-SPAN mission and an eye to the future. Their successful partnership and long experience puts them in an ideal position to...
-- On February 4, 2011, The Wall Street Journal reported:
"It looks like C-SPAN viewers will have to wait another two years - at least - to get close up coverage of the arm twisting and fat chewing that occurs daily on the House floor.
Speaker John Boehner (R., Ohio) this week rejected the cable network's latest appeal to put cameras in the House chamber. C-SPAN wants the freedom to pan...
-- May 7, 2010: Richard A. Viguerie, Chairman of ConservativeHQ.com, will be interviewed on C-SPAN's Washington Journal Program at 8:30 AM Eastern time, Sunday, May 9, to discuss the relationship of the Tea Party to the conservative movement and Republican Party.
As a follow-up to his recent Washington Post article, "From an old-school conservative, advice for the tea party," online at http://tinyurl.com/23e7zf5, Viguerie states...Also See:
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