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THE MISSION | THE COMPANY | THE BOARD
C-SPAN MILESTONES | ABOUT C-SPAN

C-SPAN is a private, non-profit public service of the cable television industry. Even though the network�s programming covers the political process, it receives no funding from any government. C-SPAN earns its operating revenues through license fees paid by cable systems that offer the network to their customers.

The cable television industry created C-SPAN (Cable-Satellite Public Affairs Network) in 1979 to provide live, gavel-to-gavel coverage of the U.S. House of Representatives. Since those early days, C-SPAN has grown into a diverse information service that provides public affairs programming 24 hours a day in a variety of formats. Today the cable industry remains the primary distributor of the C-SPAN networks and continues that distribution as a service to the public.

C-SPAN is a non-profit educational organization with a board of directors comprised of executives from large and small cable television operating companies. While the board establishes network policy and provides financial oversight, it is not involved in C-SPAN�s editorial decision-making.

When the U.S. House of Representatives turned on its cameras on March 19, 1979, C-SPAN and its staff of four were ready to carry the signal live, gavel-to-gavel, to 3.5 million cable homes. In 1980, C-SPAN covered its first presidential election and pioneered the nationwide viewer call-in program. By 1982, C-SPAN�s schedule expanded to 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Today, C-SPAN has a staff of 275; its round-the-clock programming is available to 86 million TV households via nearly 7900 cable systems.

In June 1986, the U.S. Senate began televising its proceedings, and the cable industry created C-SPAN2 to telecast Senate debates. In addition to live Senate debates, C-SPAN2 offers long-form coverage of current events and issues. And exclusively on C-SPAN2, viewers can find Book TV, 48 hours of non-fiction book programming beginning at 8am Saturday.

Launched in September 1997, C-SPAN3 is an additional choice in public affairs television. During the day, C-SPAN3 offers public affairs events from Washington and around the country, including committee hearings, press conferences, and speeches from political leaders. Overnights and weekends, C-SPAN3 spotlights American history with features from our award-winning original history series such as American Presidents: Life Stories and American Writers: A Journey Through History.

C-SPAN Radio can be heard in the Washington-Baltimore region at 90.1 FM, worldwide online at c-span.org, and nationwide via satellite on XM Satellite Radio. The station offers a mix of public affairs programming from all the C-SPAN networks and a few exclusives of its own. Each Saturday afternoon at 3pm ET, hear presidential history such as the LBJ White House tapes, and on Saturday mornings at 10:10am ET, American Political Archive brings you unique historical audio recordings from a variety of sources.

Throughout C-SPAN�s development, it has never veered from its original mission: to air unedited, balanced views of government and public policy forums, and to provide viewers with direct access to elected officials, decision-makers and journalists.


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