On Dec 19, 2:54�pm, MagneticEnergy wrote:
Uh, date requires numbers?

No, Congress funds CSPAN by demanding that cable companies pay for it,
and if Congress is going to do that, then why should they get funding
if they are going to editorialize like CNN or MSNBC?

You're full of crap. Congress didn't demand anything. This is from
Wikipedia on how C-SPAN started. It was that guy Brian Lamb:

C-SPAN (pronounced /si.sp�n/, see-span), an abbreviation of Cable-
Satellite Public Affairs Network, is an American cable television
network owned and operated by the cable industry. It airs non-stop
coverage of government proceedings and public affairs programming. C-
SPAN does not accept outside advertising; the only commercials aired
are for its own programming and products.

C-SPAN operates three television channels, one radio station and
several websites that provide streaming media including archives of
many C-SPAN programs.

History
Brian Lamb, C-SPAN's chairman and CEO, conceived of C-SPAN while
working at Cablevision, a cable industry trade magazine, as their
Washington D.C. bureau chief. C-SPAN was created as a cable-industry
financed, non-profit network for televising sessions of the U.S.
Congress and other public affairs event and policy discussions. Bob
Rosencrans, a cable industry pioneer, was alone in providing the
initial seed funding of $25,000 to start up C-SPAN.[1] It receives no
funding from any government source, has no contract with the
government, and does not sell sponsorships or advertising. It strives
for neutrality and a lack of bias in its public affairs programming.

Maybe...so there is no funding to get revoked.