Ever wonder who runs CSPAN?

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Posted previously in POLITICS - http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=1796630&mesg_id=1796630 - but re-posted in GD by request.

Tired of shooting spitballs and larger objects at your TV Friday mornings?

Here is some information lifted straight off the CSPAN website.

http://www.cspan.org/about/company/index.asp?code=BOARD

THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS

The Executive Committee

THOMAS G. BAXTER
Time Warner Cable

President WILLIAM J. BRESNAN
Bresnan Communications, President and CEO

STEPHEN B. BURKE
Comcast Cable Communications President

JOHN D. EVANS
Evans Telecommunications Co.
Chairman & CEO

BRIAN P. LAMB
C-SPAN Chairman & CEO

ROBERT MIRON
Advance / Newhouse Chairman and CEO

JAMES O. ROBBINS
Cox Communications, Inc. President & CEO

Directors
ALLAN BLOCK
Block Communications, Inc.

Vice Chairman ROCCO B. COMMISSO
Mediacom LLC Chairman & CEO

JOSEPH H. FLOYD
Midcontinent Media, Inc. President & COO

SHEILA A. MAHONY
Cablevision Systems Corporation Senior Vice President

DAVID C. McCOURT
RCN Corporation Chairman & CEO

THOMAS O. MIGHT
Cable One President & CEO

MICHAEL L. PANDZIK
National Cable TV Cooperative, Inc. President

ROBERT M. ROSENCRANS
Columbia Partners, LLC President

WILLIAM T. SCHLEYER
Adelphia Communications Corp. Chairman and CEO

FRANKLIN D. SCHURZ
Schurz Communications, Inc. President

CARL VOGEL
Charter Communications President & CEO

KELVIN WESTBROOK
Millennium Digital Media President & CEO

MICHAEL S. WILLNER
Insight Communications President & CEO

C-SPAN's Founding Board of Directors
BOB ROSENCRANS, Founding Chairman, PAUL ALDEN, ED ALLEN, RALPH BARUCH, BEN CAMPBELL, JOHN EVANS, HENRY HARRIS, GUS HAUSER, JIM HOAK, BOB HOSFELDT, AMOS HOSTETTER, LARRY HOWE, BOB HUGHES, RUSSELL KARP, BRIAN LAMB, BOB MAGNESS, DICK MUNRO, JOHN SAEMAN, GENE SCHNEIDER, BOB TITSCH, DON TYKESON, ROD WARNER,
JIM WHITSON

http://www.cspan.org/about/company/index.asp

THE C-SPAN MISSION

C-SPAN is a public service created by the American cable television industry:

To provide C-SPAN's audience access to the live gavel-to-gavel proceedings of the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate, and to other forums where public policy is discussed, debated and decided--all without editing, commentary or analysis and with a balanced presentation of points of view;

To provide elected and appointed officials and others who would influence public policy a direct conduit to the audience without filtering or otherwise distorting their points of view;

To provide the audience, through the call-in program, direct access to elected officials, other decision makers and journalists on a frequent and open basis;

To employ production values that accurately convey the business of government rather than distract from it; and to conduct all other aspects of its operations consistent with these principles.

http://www.cspan.org/about/company/index.asp?code=COMPANY

THE COMPANY

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 Hidtory.

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 and Sirius 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, here 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.