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C-SPAN Founder and CEO Brian Lamb Stepping Down
- Posted on March 18, 2012 at 5:11pm by
Christopher Santarelli
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(AP) — C-SPAN says Brian Lamb, who helped start the public-affairs cable network in 1978 and has been its CEO ever since, will step down at the end of the month.
The nonprofit network said Sunday that Lamb is handing over leadership to two co-CEOs, Rob Kennedy and Susan Swain. Lamb will remain chairman of the board, with the new title of executive chairman.
C-SPAN said the leadership transition has been years in the making. Kennedy and Swain have been co-presidents of the company since 2006.
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Rodney
Posted on March 19, 2012 at 3:32pmCross my fingers and hope the 2 people taking his place are as fair as he was. He was great because you never knew which way he leaned politically. Most of these news people should take notes. Gonna miss him.
Report Post »teebubba
Posted on March 19, 2012 at 11:39amI couldn’t agree more. For a long time the only show on TV that I would watch was the Sunday 8 PM interview show he would do faithfully every week. And the whole time he has been doing that show he only interviewed one guest more than once….someone who had written books in two different fields. There was so much information dispensed by his guests in that hour that you just couldn’t miss it even if you disagreed philosophically with the guest.
Report Post »Bad Actor
Posted on March 19, 2012 at 10:20am@GJPINKS: “I have never felt I knew where Lamb was politically.” That’s the sign of a REAL JOURNALIST – and is so rare these days, with all the pseudo-journalists (really commentators) that pass for the real thing on many of the tv stations, newspapers & blogs these days. According to my journalism class way back in college, reporters are supposed to be OBJECTIVE (meaning they don’t take sides), just reporting the facts, without bias. Brian Lamb is one of those rare creatures. Too bad we don’t have more like him. If we did, I don’t think our country would as divisive as it is these days. I really do think the media is to blame for the extreme political polarization we are witnessing today. Shame on them for abandoning their principles!
Report Post »Jackie Rogers, Jr.
Posted on March 19, 2012 at 4:18amThe one thing Brian Lamb said over and over that I’ll never forget was, “Caller? Turn down the volume on your TV caller.”
Report Post »motorcycleboy
Posted on March 18, 2012 at 11:22pmHe was great, the best interviewer on television. He was there from the beginning at CSPAN.
He knew how to ask disarmingly simple questions that would force his subjects to relate not just their experiences, but their role in society, giving listeners a better perspective.
He never asked questions designed to flatter himself or insult his guest, like some of the other condescending hosts on other networks. But his questions maximized the benefit to his audience, since he could get them to explain the basics of their field in ways that lay people could understand and appreciate.
And yes I still don’t know his politics. I hope now that he‘s leaving he’ll tell us! But I guarantee he won’t turn out to be a commie like Walter Cronkite.
Report Post »GJPinks
Posted on March 18, 2012 at 9:58pmI haven’t watched CSPAN for a while. I have never felt I knew where Lamb was politically. Comments on the replacements on air personas?
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