C-SPAN

Bill Crane/File Photo

Bill Crane/File Photo

Crane: Let’s all give C-SPAN a hand

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...