following the federal open market committ meeting with board membe a oer?n live at:3p.n on c-span now, our free mobile video app, or online at c-span.org. y:>> a healthy democracy does nt just look like this it looks like this. where americans can see democracy work. where citizens are truly informed. get informed straight from the source on c-span, unfiltered, unbiased, word for word. from the nation's capital to wherever you are. the opinion that matters the most is your own. this is what democracy looks like. c-span, powered by cable. c-span's co-ceo for 45 years this year. why is this significant? >> media6o institutions have no

guarantee. we have seen a lot of them go under. that c-span is still around at 45 is providing services some people find valuable. what we have tried to do over the last decade is to build an institution people can trust that they are going to see the whole story in the interest of showing the political process as it occurs without our own bias, and we've created an archive where people can find what public officials have had to say and decide what they think about it. the fact we are still around at age 45 means people understood the role it plays and the niche it has in american media. >> let's remind our viewers how we started. >> march 19, 1979, the gavel came down in the house of representatives and tip o'neil gaveled in the first ever televised session of the house.

>> the house will be in order. the gentleman from tennessee. >> mr. speaker, on this historic day, the house of representatives opens its proceedings for the first time to televised coverage. i want to congratulate you for your courage in making this possible and the committee who has worked so hard under the leadership of congressman charles role to make this a reality. television will change this institution. just as it has changed the executive branch. the bad. >> two years beforehand, private entrepreneurs in the cable indust had been organizing for day. they built the first satellite uplink in washington, d.c. to transmit that to the american public. television or satellite tv could see that

first session of congress. televised access to the really.i political process. lots of people are now offering ways for people to follow washington, follows, follow the white house. but in 1979 this was a real use of technology for the public good. there had been nothing like it before. this year for the first time, our anniversary, we are celebrating by calling it a founders day. what does that mean? >> well, the reality of any media organization today, anyone watching knows their media consumption habits have changed dramatically. the standard of 100 million homes having cable television wired in changed enormously. over the past eight years we have lost about 30% of the homes that carried cable and carried our signal to them. along with that comes a lot of

revenue. we have done everything we can to shortlves up in the face of change. the reality is there are lots of people accessing our content now who do not really help contribute to it. it is an expensive thing. we are marking founders day and kicking off a campaign to ask the public for their help in we are still going to have our base of cable and satellite companies carrying our signal. they pay $.75 per year to carry c-span in some scription fees. we are asking people who are watching us on cause or people who are using us online through youtube or social media, if they would like to help sport c-span so can continue to offer gavel-to-gavel coverage of congress, our history programming, book programming, and all the educational materials we develop for the classroom. all of which is available for

free without the support of the cable networks. help. founders day is an interesting concept. i think of the founders as being the ennd created the private enterprise. the congress that said yes to televising his sessions and seven years later the senate al s■íaying yes.fy the reporters who covered us when we were an unknown quantity. they were not sure what to make of it. viewers who watched over the years. the viewer support of this network has been critical. they call into call in shows you host. support us online by using our products. in many cases they have helped to get is on cable systems over the years when we were seeking to expand our coverage. now we are calling on viewers to help us a different way. a little bit of support on founders day to help us with a contribution that will sustain c-span into the future.

>> with those challenges and opportunity, what can viewers expect of us in the fute? >> our goal is the mothership, c-span, c-span 2, c-span 3, providing service, but we want to be everywhere people are consuming public affairs content. that requires resources. if we are going to be building apps, if we are going to expand our social media presence, it takes people and technical resources. we are going to be there. but we wiler and better with the help of our viewers through founders day contribution. that is what we are asking for as we mark our 45th anniversary. >> thank you. >> c-span's washington journal, our live forum to discuss the latest issues in government, politics, and public policy. from washington and across the country. ■8wednesday morning, we will discuss the state of

negotiations to fund the government ahead of a weekend deadline. and the latest efforts on foreign aid for israel and ukraine with christian science monitor senior congressional correspondent christa case bryant. thenratic senator peter welch. also the executive director of the honest elections project, jason sneed. eport on improving state election laws. c-span's washington journal. join the conversation live at 7:00 eastern monday morning on c-span, c-span now, our free mobile app, or online at c-span.org. wednesday on c-span, the house is back for general speeches at 100 a.m. eastern. at noon, members beg wk on legislation to encourage oil and natural gas production in the u.s. by prohibiting the presiden from declaring a motoum on fracking and blocking the implementation of a w rule that wouldormally

increase the royalty rate for oil and naturagas leases. senate returns at 10:00 am to conside district court nominations for new jersey and california. at 10:00 a.m. on c-sn3he house oversight committee continues its impeachment inquiry into present biden by hearing testimony from hunter biden's formerssiates. the president's son has be invited toestify but has already informed the committee he does not plan to attend. you can watch our live covera on the free c-span now videoc-sw of government. we are funded by these television companies and more including charter communications. >> charter is proud to be coized as one of the best internet providers. and we are just getting started. building 100,000 miles of new infrastructure to reach those who need it most.