Abstract
When C-SPAN began satellite-transmitted telecasts of the U.S. House of Representaives in March 1979, three million cable homes were wired to receive its service. Weekdays, between the hours of 10:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. live Congressional debates could be piped into the livingrooms of interested cable subscribers. Four C-SPAN employees labored on the project and when the House was dark, they typed up the text for video billboards that announced their next Congressional telecast.Over the next eight years, C-SPAN grew dramatically. Today, 135 employees work for C-SPAN in fields as diverse as programming, marketing, accounting, and newsletter publication. C-SPAN is on the air 24 hours a day with two channels of public affairs programming. The core of C-SPAN's fare is still the U.S. House debates; C-SPAN II, created in 1986, offers live coverage of Senate debates.
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