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here's c-span's brian lamb. brian: right out of the box, and i have to be careful because there's no written proof in front of me, but people associated with national public radio didn't like the dea that these nonprofit allocated channels on radio were going to be used for politics. instead of for public radio stations. sniffing they began around capitol hill, salem decided, why do we want to go through this? they're not controversial. theernt a lightning rod. and so they came to us and said, if you'll buy this radio station for what we paid for it, which, by the way, was a huge swallow when i heard what they had to pay for it, you can have it. and it was $13 million. so we took it back to the board of directors. and not much to my surprise, but i guess it really was a surprise, they voted let's go for it. host: radio brought to you by the cable and satellite industry. it is completely commercial-free, 24/7. c-span public affairs programming, and also c-span's washington today from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. eastern time

[applause] brian lamb, and all of my colleagues who work there, you are all true professionals. thank you for the opportunity of a lifetime. i want to thank my own family, my caring parents, judy and sherry, my beautiful wife, harriet, and are two wonderful daughters charlotte and rachel for all their love and support. finally, i wanted to thank the executive committee members for their service on the board during a very, very, very busy year on capitol hill. to olga and mike and their hard-working senate gallery staff the could not do it without you. and to john parkinson of abc news,. [applause] for not only organizing tonight's dinner but also hosting last year's two. please join me in applauding all of their efforts. [applause] with that, please join us for a great after party hosted right here by a heart media and join us next year for the 74th radio television correspondence association. this meeting is adjourned, good night. [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] >> c-span's "washington journal", live everyday with news and issues that impact too. coming up thursday morning

first of all, i totally agree c-span does incredible job brian and all you the rest, brian lamb. ut i disagree, i think there re many, are many, many fine choices in the media today. it depends what flavor ice cream you like. you can watch fox and get one the r, watch msnbc in evening, not necessarily all day long and you get another flavor, conservative flavor in the morning with a mix, i'd ay in the morning with morning joe. and c-span kind of right down the middle. network to still watch abc and i think cbs, network news is good source of information. newshour, i think there are a lot of very good choices out there in print media and electronic media today. radio.ere is talk vice i asked about president mike pence yesterday. guest: he cost $200,000 knowing ahead of time that this is the president mike pence 49ers, for god's sake, of course a ebody is going to take knee. he knew that, he went to the game, prepared to walk out. press release written before he walked out, sure to were told, be watch, pay attention during the national anthem, something is happen, total political s

brian? >> reporter: jarring new information from clark county sheriff lamb b sheriff lombardo. they have evidence that he may not have intended to die in that hotel room. we got access to a room not far from the gunman's and got inside information about his planning from a former s.w.a.t. team member. stephen paddock's horrific attack on the route 91 country music festival was a very meticulously planned assault. >> he spent decades acquiring ammo and weapons and living a secret life. >> reporter: that planning, experts say, began with a sniper's nest that he chose at the mandalay bay and the targets below. k from the room, you can see paddock's broken hotel window, his line of sight to the concert venue. >> this is my first time being up here and looking at this and to me it's very erie. >> reporter: john sheehan is a retired police sergeant. from this vantage point, he says he has a clearer picture of the shooter's tactics and planning, including choosing a high room at the end of the hallway. >> he requested an east-facing room. he requested an east-facing room because if we