#c-span

[thiswaycomessomethingwicked]

Love C-Span’s “due to the fact that we are ruled by the Lord of Chaos here in the House of Representatives and there are NO RULES our cameras are allowed to ROAM FREE and provide you HOT GOSSIP of who is talking to who and how many ugly-ass ties are present on the floor” 

[saywhat-politics]

Rep. Eric Swalwell: "My Republican colleagues are a joke. They're wrong."

Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) at hearing with former Special Counsel Jack Smith: "My Republican colleagues are a joke. They're wrong. History will harshly judge them...these guys are so lucky they're not under oath, because they would have to tell you what they really think of Trump. They call him crooked, they call him cruel, they call him a scumbag...when the lights go on and the cameras are on, you're tiny, you're small. You shrink..."

[odinsblog]

[deadpresidents]

This forgotten and remarkable debate between California Governor Ronald Reagan and Senator Robert F. Kennedy of New York was held on May 15, 1967 for a CBS News program called "Town Meeting of the World" and watched live by over 15 million people.

Reagan, who was just five months into his first term as Governor of California, demonstrated his skill as a public communicator and made it clear that he was a force to be reckoned with in national politics by definitively winning the debate according to practically everybody who watched it. Newsweek would declare that "political rookie Reagan...left old campaigner Kennedy blinking when the session ended" while the journalist and legendary historian David Halberstam recalled "the general consensus" was "Reagan...destroyed him."

Most people don't realize that Reagan and Kennedy ever crossed paths and even forget that they were actually contemporaries -- in fact, Reagan was nearly 15 years OLDER than Kennedy -- so it's fascinating to see them face-to-face (although they were in different studios) in this type of scenario. After the debate ended and the broadcast went off-the-air, RFK reportedly asked his aides,"Who the fuck got me into this?" and demanded that he never be put on stage with "that son-of-a-bitch" again.

[grumpyseaman]

EVERYONE NEEDS TO RELISTEN TO THIS VIDEO FROM 2020...HMMM FREE WILL ENTERS INTO THE PICTURE.

Posted by Raven Moonstone

[floorcharts]

In case you missed it: C-SPAN announces deal for its service to be carried on YouTube TV, Hulu. (Associated Press article.)

Pictured: C-SPAN CEO carrying a chart.

From the AP:

C-SPAN said Wednesday that it had reached a deal to have its three channels air on YouTube TV and Hulu’s live television feed, ending a dispute that had led to a revenue squeeze for the public affairs network in the cord-cutting era.

The network said the streaming services would pay the same fee as cable and satellite companies, roughly 87 cents a year per subscriber, and that C-SPAN would continue its no-advertising policy on television.

Congress involved itself in the issue, passing a resolution this spring calling on the services’ parent companies — Alphabet for YouTube and Disney for Hulu — to add C-SPAN to their programming mix. Because congressional sessions and hearings represent a big portion of C-SPAN’s programming, the politicians faced diminished airtime without a deal.

At its peak a decade ago, C-SPAN was seen in some 100 million homes with television. The number of homes paying for TV has since dropped to some 70 million, with roughly 20 million of those consumers now getting television through services like YouTube and Hulu, and they weren’t showing C-SPAN.

Read more: https://apnews.com/article/cspan-media-streaming-congress-923888f09d0ecb6d7762bd4f972bc543

[cabbagewithissues]

One day, you’re young and full of hope, and the next, you’re tuned into C-SPAN for several hours to watch some of the best television you’ve seen in years

[slashdementia7734]