During the late 1970s, Brian Lamb, then the Washington Bureau Chief of an industry trade publication called Cablevision, proposed a channel on the growing cable spectrum to provide gavel-to-gavel coverage and airing of the U.S. Congress in action.Though a handful of Congressional hearings had been televised as early as the theArmy-McCarthy Senate Hearing of 1954, the day-to-day ...
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