Watching C-SPAN
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- February
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Today I wrote about finally getting cable service for my television.
I’ve been having fun watching the Food Network and HGTV but a lot of the other programming is uninteresting.
Then a reader called to say watch the C-SPAN channels.
“They’re the greatest thing in television,” she said.
She’s right. I forgot about C-SPAN.
C-SPAN is a private, non-profit company. It was created by the cable television industry in 1979 to provide, as a public service, access to the political process. It gets no government money. It is funded by fees paid by cable and satellite affiliates who carry C-SPAN programming.
Here are some findings about its audience from the Pew Research Center.
Fifty-two million Americans watch C-SPAN.
They range across all ideological groups: 33 percent said they were conservative, 38 percent moderate and 24 percent liberal.
Fifty-six percent said they were under 50.
And not surprising, they’re interested in news about government.
Here are some of the recent most watched segments: Eric O’Neill, a former FBI agent on the Robert Hanssen case, Gov. Chris Gregoire, Democrat from Washington, and Mike Leavitt, the secretary of health & human services.
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I agree with your article”television satellite”C-SPAN is a private, non-profit company. It was created by the cable television industry in 1979 to provide, as a public service, access to the political process. It gets no government money. It is funded by fees paid by cable and satellite affiliates who carry C-SPAN programming television satellite