This cable channel C-SPAN is the only truly impartial, fair and balanced one there is with respect to news and politics in the US (possibly in the entire world). It has backstage access for everything important in the political realm and is on 24 hours a day without one single commercial, paid endorsement or pledge drive. It must be fantastically expensive to run this outstanding channel for the last quarter century. Who pays for it, and WHY?
From C-SPAN.org :
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.
C-SPAN is advertised as “the Cable Industry’s gift to America”. At c-span.org they say “Created by Cable. Offered as a Public Service.” Check out the history of C-SPAN here.
hyjyljyj writes:
> It must be fantastically expensive to run this outstanding channel for the last
> quarter century.
It’s very cheap to run. Most of its programming consists of setting up a camera and letting it run. This is done in front of the House or Senate, in committee rooms, in bookstores, and in lecture halls. Nobody being filmed is paid. Nobody working for the channel makes more than $200,000, and most make much less. There are no strictly in-front-of-camera personalities at C-SPAN. Everybody doing an interview show, for instance, also works at some behind-the-camera job. There are actually surprisingly few people who work for the channel. Incidentally, there are three C-SPAN channels.
Here’s another shout-out for C-SPAN, their subject matter is truly balanced.