Brian Lamb
Brian Lamb
Brian Patrick Lamb is an American journalist and the founder, executive chairman, and now retired CEO of C-SPAN; an American cable network which provides coverage of the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate as well as other public affairs events. Prior to launching C-SPAN in 1979, Lamb held various communications roles including White House telecommunications policy staffer and Washington bureau chief for Cablevision magazine. He also served as a commissioned officer in the United States Navy for four years...
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth9 October 1941
CityLafayette, IN
We did receive, late last week, their response and their plan. We are evaluating it to see if they are compliant. We will be talking to them. We wanted to see their plan and also how they will execute it.
We wanted to hear from viewers about why they watch or participate in call-ins on C-SPAN, ... Viewers of all ages and walks of life wrote to us, including actresses, stand-up comics, parents and students. What's clear after reading the entries is the impact that call-ins have had on the political conversation on the network.
I don't, for the record, have a Tweety Bird fetish.
It's easier to fix damage than it is to create it.
I vote in every general election, but I'm not a party member or an ideologue. I've never told anyone who I've voted for.
More than anything else, we need in this society the opportunity for people to tell us what they think without being told that they're either dumb, or stupid, or uninformed.
It's very nice to be able to write something you don't have to get four other people to agree with before it can become authoritative.
My number one goal was not getting 'A's' - and I proved it. I was a 'C' student. You have to be ready to learn. If you're not interesting in learning, it doesn't work. As I grew older and wanted to learn and desperately wanted inside information, learning was a lot easier.
I'm anti-big power. I don't know if that's populist or not.
I've never been a member of a political party, but people will superimpose on you what they want.
Some people when they get older are so firm in their beliefs that you'll never move them.
Who cares if a movie star has an opinion unless the person is very well informed?
I don't like swearing on the air. As a matter of fact, I'm not a prude, but... I watch HBO and some of the comedy stuff, and I'm constantly asking myself, 'Why have we gone there?' It seems like it's unfortunate. It's so cheap. It's so easy.
I think technology has changed America, not any one organization. Technology is taking the power away from the few. There'll be a lot more choices, and good people who are doing serious stuff will survive and there'll be a lot more voices, and that is very healthy.