C-SPAN 25 YEARS OF CALL-IN PROGRAMMING - fraught w/ freepers & neocons!

[paineinthearse]

This is a special CSPAN group post. Generally the group prepares the next day's schedule the evening before. As this is a marathon, we are doing it two days in advance. The next step is yours.

Select a guest or a topic and start a response thread. Populate it with information about the guest or the topic. Then DU'ers can use the information when sending their thoughts prior to air time via the webform at www.cspan.org, or by calling during the program.

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C-SPAN launched television’s first-ever, regularly scheduled national viewer call-in program on October 7, 1980 from the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. We’re marking the call-in anniversary with a live, 25-Hour Call-In Marathon starting on Friday, October 7, 2005, at 8 p.m. and continuing through Saturday, October 8, 2005 at 9 p.m. ET.

Every hour, the special program will highlight key events from a year in recent history starting with 1980. Interviews with guests who helped shape or cover the event, archival video and statistics from that year are scheduled. Also, interviews with 25 winners from C-SPAN’s Viewer Call-In Essay Contest will be featured hourly.
25th ANNIVERSARY OF C-SPAN CALL-INS: PROGRAM SCHEDULE
(All Times Eastern -- Video will be available Sunday, October 9.)

1980-1981: Friday 8-9:30pm
Topic: Have call-ins changed the political discussion?
Guest: Phil Donahue
Guest: :puke: Pat Buchanan
Contest Winners: Carole Troll, Woodhaven, NY &
Barret Kalellis, Pinckney, MI

1981-1982: Friday 9:30-11pm
Topic: Memorable Members of Congress
Guest: :puke: Tony Blankley, Op-Ed page editor, Washington Times
Contest Winner: Kathleen Holowach, El Cajon, CA

1983: Friday 11pm-midnight
Topic: The Middle East
Guest: Georgie Anne "Gigi" Geyer, author and reporter
Contest Winner: Scott Gray, Birmingham, AL

1984: Saturday midnight-1am
Topic: Iowa/NH and presidential politics
Guests: David Yepsen, Des Moines Register & :puke: Joseph McQuaid, The New Hampshire Union Leader
Contest Winner: Joel Steinberg, Fairfax Station, VA

1985: Saturday 1am-2am
Topic: The Reagan years
Guest: :puke: Lou Cannon, Reagan biographer
Contest Winner: Mary McGinnis, Rupert, ID

1986: Saturday 2am-3am
Topic: Space exploration
Guest: Dr. Louis Friedman, Executive Director, Planetary Society
Contest Winner: Ron LueDecke, Palms, CA

1987: Saturday: 3am-4am
Topic: Presidential scandals and their impact on democracy
Guests: Susan Page, USA Today & Carl Leubsdorf, Dallas Morning News
Contest Winner: Anthony Lee, Berkeley, CA

1988: Saturday 4am-5am
Topic: The legacy of President Bush "41"
Guest: :puke: Jim Pinkerton, syndicated columnist and contributor, Fox News Channel
Contest Winner: Patrick Turner, Hermosa Beach, CA

1989: Saturday 5am-6am
Topic: Role of the U.S. in the world
Guests: :puke: Christopher Hitchens, columnist, Vanity Fair
Contest Winner: Christina Carlson, Lihue, HI

1990: Saturday 6am-7am
Topic: Congressional scandals
Guest: Kwame Holman, Washington correspondent, The Newshour with Jim Lehrer (PBS)
Contest Winner: Maria Lyda, Tulsa, OK

1991: Saturday 7am-8am
Topic: Supreme court nominations
Guest: Joan Biskupic, Supreme Court reporter, USA Today
Contest Winner: Joe Martin, Oceanside, CA

1992: Saturday 8am-9am
Topic: The legacy of President Clinton
Guest: John Podesta, former Chief of Staff to President Clinton
Contest Winner: Judy Hammond, Alachua, FL

1993: Saturday 9am-10am
Topic: Role of the media in covering Washington
Guest: Nick Gillespie, editor, Reason magazine
Contest Winner: Kathleen O'Donnell, Keene, NH

1994: Saturday 10am-11am
Topic: GOP takeover
Guests: Former Rep. Tom Foley (D-WA) & Former Rep. Robert Walker (R-PA)
Contest Winner: Dain Pascocello, Hopewell Junction, NY

1995: Saturday 11am-Noon
Topic: Race relations
Guest: Commissioner Gerald Reynolds, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights
Contest Winner: Carolyn Ross, Oxford, MS

1996: Saturday Noon-1pm
Topic: Social Washington
Guest: Sally Quinn, author and former reporter for Style section of Washington Post
Contest Winner: Robert Meehan, Houston, TX

1997: Saturday 1pm-2pm
Topic: Influence of talk radio
Guests: :patriot: Randi Rhodes, "Randi Rhodes Show on Air America," and Janet Parshall, "Janet Parshall's America"
Contest Winner: Stephanie Clemens, State College, PA

1998: Saturday 2pm-3pm
Topic: The Clinton impeachment
Guest: :puke: Matt Drudge, The Drudge Report
Contest Winner: Robert Ewoldt, Chicago, IL

1999: Saturday 3pm-4pm
Topic: Violence in schools
Guest: Reg Weaver, president, National Education Association
Contest Winner: Andrew Ohmer, Indianapolis, IN

2000: Saturday 4pm-5pm
Topic: President Bush "43"
Guests: TBD
Contest Winner: Krystal Reyes, Moline, IL

2001: Saturday 5pm-6pm
Topic: International terrorism
Guest: Jessica Stern, professor, Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, and author
Contest Winners: Cesar Muedas, Brentwood, TN &
Diane Shockey, Gaylord, MI

2002: Saturday 6pm-7pm
Topic: Corporate scandals
Guests: Marilyn Geewax, economics and technology correspondent, Cox News Service
Contest Winner: Andrew Emerson, Dallas, TX

2003: Saturday 7-8pm *
Topic: War in Iraq
Guests: :puke: William Kristol, editor, The Weekly Standard & Frank Rich, columnist, The New York Times
*Erika Barger, Grand Prize Winner in C-SPAN's Viewer Call-In Essay Contest, to co-host with C-SPAN's :puke: Brian Lamb this hour

2004/2005 Saturday 8pm-9pm
Topic: Wrap-up and viewer calls

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Please pick a name, start a reply thread with their info. DU'ers can use the information when calling in to counter the spin and lies.

[11cents]

1. Lou Cannon is actually pretty good.

Just because his book was a biography of Reagan doesn't mean it was puke-worthy.

But yeah, in general C-SPAN call-ins have been a sewer.

[AspenRose]

2. Randi Rhodes vs. Janet Parshall???

SATURDAY, SATURDAY, SATURDAY!!!!! DON'T MISS THE DEATH CAGE MATCH BETWEEN RANDI RHODES AND JANET PARSHALL!!!! SATURDAY!!! SATURDAY!!!! SATURDAY!!!!


;-)

[paineinthearse]

3. .

:rofl:

[SoCalDem]

4. Why does Randi have an "opponent"?

I HATE HATE HATE this tactic.. Repubes are allowed the whole time all to themselves, yet a vociferous dem always seems to have a "balancer" who interrupts and eats up time...

[paineinthearse]

6. That's CSPAN

Don't like it? Complain to its board of directors (all come from the kommunications korporations).

[zanne]

10. I've noticed that, too.

They're subtle about it, but there's bias at C-Span. What kills me is that the Heritage Foundation practically lives there. When I first started watching five years ago, I thought they actually owned C-Span.

[SoCalDem]

15. and Fox is their "downstairs" neighbor

so they have easy access to "guests" at the last minute..Lots of "Foxy" guests..:(

The "freak-foundations" LOBBY c-span HARD..they are always "offering" experts.. Cato-Heritage people probably have their own special reserved parking spaces:puke:

[fancypantselitist]

18. re: Randi Rhodes vs. Janet Parshall?

LOL!

Here's Janet Parshall's reaction to hearing the truth out of a liberal:

"I can't hear you!"

[LiviaOlivia]

5. kick

[paineinthearse]

7. .

:kick:

[paineinthearse]

8. .

One for the overnight crew.

[paineinthearse]

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:kick:

[MsLeopard]

11. Randi up soon

Randi's coming up soon. Too bad she has to share the hour with a right wing counterpart. But then C-SPAN always this type of thing, IMO. They put 50 far right wingers up for every one liberal progressive -- and then they have a right winger on with nearly every liberal.

I've heard that Brian Lamb was once a Rethug staffer - does anyone know if that's true?

BTW -- I like your C-SPAN group. I know you get frustrated with the lack of posting on it. So this kick's for you! Thanks for sticking with it.

[paineinthearse]

14. MsLeopard

Welcome to DU
:hi:

Regarding "frustration"

1. It is not "my" group, 20 of us petitioned and it belongs to DU.
2. Any frustration is with the lack of support for the daily schedule that notadmblnd makes day in and day out. See the pointer every night at
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topics&forum=320

[Spazito]

17. Randi was awesome, she decimated Parshall!

Here is a screen capture provided by liveoaktx of what Randi reduced Janet to by the end of the show, it is a classic and a keeper. I have adopted this screen capture as my sig line, it is such a perfect example of how the right wing reacts to truth.

[mandyky]

12. They just said Mona Charin (sp)

will be on at the 4 to 5 hour. I cannot stomach that woman - she and Judy Miller should share the same cell! 2 peas in a pod!

[CatWoman]

13. I'm with you -- she is every inch the witch

[paineinthearse]

16. .

:kick:

[mandyky]

19. Does Jessica Stern remind anyone else of

Janeene Garafalo? That was a decent segment amid the sea of neocons.

Also, Marilyn Geewax, had a lot of interesting thoughts on deregulation being responsible for the corporate scandals. Capitalism and greed run amok.

[otohara]

20. When CSPAN Mentions the # of Times Conservatives vs Liberals Have Appeared

it's quite astonishing just how lopsided it all is. Randi has been in radio for how long???? How many times has she been on C-span vs that icky wingnut Parshall woman? One time vs 14?