C-SPAN Founder to Step Down as Chief Executive

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Brian Lamb, who created the revolutionary nonprofit cable television network C-SPAN in the late 1970s and has been its public face ever since, is handing it over to two lieutenants, Rob Kennedy and Susan Swain.

Effective April 1, they will become the co-chief executives of C-SPAN and Lamb will become the executive chairman, formalizing a management change that has been years in the making. Mr. Lamb will continue to host “Q&A,” his Sunday night interview program, and will pursue other interests, like teaching. The announcement will come on Monday, 33 years to the day that C- C-SPAN — short for Cable-Satellite Public Affairs Network — came onto cable television, predating CNN and ESPN. C-SPAN’s commitment to carry every minute of the proceedings of the United States House of Representatives without commercials is taken for granted now, but it was an extraordinary act at the time, since most Americans then saw of Congress only what was reported on the nightly news and in newspapers.


C-SPAN Founder to Step Down as Chief Executive