Reply #6: No Advertising Doesn't Mean Corporate Ownership? [View All]

[KharmaTrain]

C-SPAN began as a bone to local communities that originally issued charters to set up cable systems...the channel was set up with money from Time Warner, Cox and other large cable operators to fulfill their "public service" requirement to get charters that gave them domination of cable systems across the country. In '96 that requirement was dropped, but C-SPAN still exists...as a PR gesture and political presence for these companies.

Look at the history...F.A.I.R. has looked into this issue and C-SPAN has never responded:

http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2764

To think that just because they appear to be "bipartisan" and they say they're non-commercial means they're not corporate. Au cortraire...Brian Lamb lives a very nice life and the network is flush in cash. It's gotta come from somewhere.