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However, the IOP has decided to limit Cable Satellite Public Affairs Network (C-SPAN) to taping only four shows, in order to examine the impact of the network's presence on the quality of the events...
...want to look and see the effect on panelists of knowing they are before national television and see whether they will be any less candid when they talk," said Paul Bograd, the associate director of the IOP. C-SPAN, which is funded and managed by the cable networks, has a potential viewership of 25 million people, said Barry Katz, a C-SPAN official...
...think C-SPAN's presence is fine as we've also been enthusiastic of public radio here," said Dean of the Kennedy School Graham T. Allison. '62. "I don't think TV cameras in a forum as large as ours will change the character of the conversation at all. In fact, it may make the speakers more precise...
...accurately that the Senate's archaic rules and long, meandering speeches would not air well. "Unlimited debate," Johnston reminded his colleagues, "is not pretty." But TV is everywhere in America, and because of it, the White House and the House of Representatives, which has been televised live on the C-SPAN cable network since 1979, seemed to be getting disproportionate attention. Minority Leader Robert Byrd warned mournfully that the Senate was fast becoming the "invisible half of Congress." Somewhat grudgingly, and only after nine days of floor debate, the Senators voted early this year to let the cameras in. Starting...
...June 1, after a month of closed-circuit viewing on Capitol Hill, the Senate will permit four rip-roaring weeks of legislative action to be televised on c-span, the cable network that already brings the House to some 23 million homes. Then on July 29, the chamber will vote on whether cameras, lights and mikes should become permanent fixtures of "the world's greatest deliberative body...