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Sam Feist, the longtime Washington, D.C. bureau chief of CNN, will become the next CEO of C-SPAN. Feist will succeed Rob Kennedy and Susan Swain, who have been in the role as co-CEOs since 2012. Founding CEO Brian Lamb remains on the board of directors. Feist has served as Washington bureau…

UPDATED with more details: There’s no Saturday Night Live tonight, but President Joe Biden is just hours away from stepping up as comedian-in-chief at the White House Correspondents' Dinner. Along with SNL‘s Colin Jost, Biden will be the headliner Saturday at the annual gathering of politicians, the…

C-SPAN co-CEOs Rob Kennedy and Susan Swain, who have been at the helm of the nonprofit cable network since 2012, will be leaving later this year. C-SPAN said chair Pat Esser has been working with Kennedy and Swain on succession planning for more than a year and has tapped Carlsen Resources, a…

A small contingent of journalists gathered near the Canadian border earlier this morning to watch as Dixville Notch, NH, continued its tradition of casting the first ballots on an election day. Nikki Haley cleaned Donald Trump’s clock in this hamlet — 6 votes to none. As the day goes on, network…

Have you heard it’s cold in Des Moines? The subzero temperatures are making Monday’s caucuses in Iowa the coldest on record, a running theme of coverage throughout the day and into this evening. It’s not trivial, as the frigid weather may very well impact turnout. As Iowa’s first votes of the 2024…

UPDATE: NBCUniversal argued that a federal rule does not impose an “an impregnable ban” on audio and video coverage of former President Donald Trump’s upcoming criminal trial on election conspiracy charges. In a filing today, NBCU’s legal team, led by Theodore Boutrous, wrote, “Although the…

UPDATE: C-SPAN has formally asked House Speaker Kevin McCarthy to cover floor proceedings by installing a few additional cameras in the chamber. The letter from C-SPAN co-CEO Susan Swain follows widespread praise that the network received for its coverage of last week’s speaker vote. Because it was a…

Editor’s note: This post on the Jan 6 committee hearings by our TV critic Dominic Patten has been reclassified from a review to a commentary, and has been edited to better reflect the author’s point of view. In trying to opine that the presentation of evidence about a horrific day in American history did not rise to…

When C-SPAN covers the January 6th Committee’s first primetime hearing, viewers will get coverage from more vantage points that the typical session. The public affairs network is serving as the pool for broadcast and cable media, and will cover the hearing with seven cameras in the stately Cannon Caucus Room, a…

Steve Scully, who left C-SPAN last year after 30 years, is hosting a daily show for SiriusXM’s POTUS Channel. Scully began hosting The Briefing with Steve Scully on the channel on Monday. It’ll air weekdays from noon-2 PM ET. The timeslot was previously filled by Chris Cuomo, who ended the show in December after he…

Most of comedy's top talent are in Los Angeles this weekend at the inaugural Netflix Is a Joke festival, but the best jokes literally and figuratively in the nation were at the White House Correspondents' Dinner in Washington DC on Saturday. Sticking to a winning strategy of self-deprecation, President Joe Biden…

Trevor Noah, host of Comedy Central's The Daily Show, will serve as the entertainer at Saturday’s White House Correspondents' Association dinner. The event is making its return after a two year absence — the 2020 and 2021 dinners were canceled due to Covid — and it looks like the WHCD will once again include the full…