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people can't live without. now more than ever it all starts with great internet. wow! >> wow supports c-span as a public service along with these other television providers giving you a front row seat toa. >> susan swain, c-span's co-ceo, 45 years markingwhy is this imp? >> we have seen a lot of media go under in the past decade and if c-spanound 45 the good news is we are providing a service some find valuable and what we have tried to do over the last decades is trust, that they will see the whole story, and we have the interest of showing the political process ast occurs without bias, without our find what

public officials have had to say and decide for themselves what they think about it. that is what c-span is all about and the fact we are aroundt 45 means people have understood the role it plays in the niche in american media. >> let's remind our viewers how we started. >>arch 19, 1979, the gavel came down in the house of representatives and speaker of the house gaveled in the first televised session of the house. >> the house will be in order. gentlemen from tennessee. >> [indiscernible] -- one minute,r. speaker. >> without objection. >> mr. speaker, on this storic day, the house of representatives opens is proceeding for the first time to televised courage. i wish to congratulate you for making this possible and the committee who has worked so hard under the leadership of the

congressman to make this a reality. television will change this institution, mr. speaker, just it has changed the executive ranch come up at the goodwill far outweigh the bad. >> two years before hand private entrepreneurs in the cable industry had been organizing for that day and built the first satellite in the d.c. area to transmit that session to the american public. it started a revolution, televised access to the process and lots of people are far offering ways to follow washington in 1979 this was a real use of and there had been nothing like it before. >> this year for the first time for our anniversary we are celebrating it by calling it da fos day here dwight is

that? what does that mean? >> well, the reality of any media organizationodayny■dwatcha consumption habits have changed hermetically in the standard of 100 million homes having and thg a monthly subscription fee has changed enormously over the past 78 years. we have lost about of the homes that carry cable and carried our signal to them. along with that comes a loss of revenue was so we have done everything we can to short ourselves up in the face of change, but the reality is there are lots of people accessing your content now don't really help contribute to us producing it, and it is an expensive thing to do, so we are marking founder's day and kicking off a campaign to ask thpuóc their help continuing to support c-span. we will still have our important cable and select companies carrying our signal who pay $.75

a year to carry c-span n description fees, butple who arg us on cable who would like to help the cause of people using us online through youtube or through social media■c if they would like to help support c-span so we could continue offer gavel to gavel coverage of congress, our history programming, books programming, and all educational materials we develop for the classroom all which is available for free without the support of the cable we really want now to ask people to help contribute. founder's day is an interesting concept. i think the founders as being the entrepreneurs who started c-span and created the private enterprise of the congress that said is to televise thesesing td seven years later the senate saying yes, the reporters who covered us when we were an unknown qh3uantity and were not,

but more importantly the viewers who watched over the years, the viewers supporting this network has been critical who call into the, call and shows you host also support us unlimited by using our products, and in many cases they help get us on cable systems over the years when we were seeking to expand our coverage. now we are calling on viewers to help us in a different way with a little bit of support on founders dato help us with a contribution that will sustain c-span into the future >> so with those business challenges and opportunities e future? >> well our goal is the mothership is c-span, c-span2, service but we want to be everywhere people are consuming public affairs content and that requires resources. building apps, fast channels, expanding our social media presence, it takes people and technical resources.

will be there but do it faster and better with the help of her viewers to founder's day contributions and that is what we are asking for today as we mark our 45th anniversary. >> susan swain, thank you. >> susan: thank you, greta. ♪>> c-span's washington journal> our live form involving you to discuss the latest issues in government, politics and public policy from washington and across the country. coming up wednesday morning we will discuss the state of negotiations to fund the government ahead of a weekend deadlinew=■ and the latest effos on foreign aid for israel and ukraine with christian science monitor senior congressional correspondent, christa case bryant■l#p3[■x then vermont demc senator peter welch, also the executive director of the honest elections project, jason sneed, talks about a report on election security and improving state election laws. c-span's washington journal, join the conversation live at

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