News Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: (press officer, cable system)
(phone number)
Media Relations, C-SPAN
(202) 626-8797

Sample Press Release
(Please tailor this press release with your
system's name and other local information)

C-SPAN 3 NOW AVAILABLE TO (Name of Cable System) CUSTOMERS Third C-SPAN Network Offers Live Events and History Programs to the XXX-Area

(Name of city), (date) -- (Name of Cable System) announced today that it has launched C-SPAN 3 - the latest public affairs channel from C-SPAN-to (insert service area) digital cable customers.

C-SPAN 3 launched in January, 2001 and offers live coverage of current national events on weekdays and long-form history programming overnights and weekends. Like C-SPAN and C-SPAN 2, the channel is carried by cable television companies as a public service.

Among C-SPAN 3's offerings is a weekly series featuring the Lyndon Johnson White House Audio Tapes. Every Monday at 11pm ET (re-airing Thursdays and Saturdays at 11 pm ET), C-SPAN 3 will air two-hour segments of LBJ's telephone conversations from the Oval Office.

"People in our area have an appetite for the kind of high quality public affairs programming C-SPAN 3 provides," said (General Manager or company spokesperson - Or include your own quote.). "We are confident it will be a very popular addition to our digital program tier."

C-SPAN, created by the cable television industry in 1979, offers a family of public affairs media across different platforms, including: three twenty-four hour networks-C-SPAN, C-SPAN 2, and C-SPAN 3 - C-SPAN Radio, and C-SPAN.org. C-SPAN also offers a wide variety of public affairs programming, including current events, national political coverage, book programs, history specials and international events.