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== Leadership updates ==

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Hi editors, I'm Robin and I work for Beutler Ink. On behalf of C-SPAN, I am requesting some updates to the last paragraph of the [[C-SPAN#Channel_expansion_and_access|Channel expansion and access]] subsection. Those changes are as follows:

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{{textdiff|Lamb semi-retired in March 2012 and gave executive control of the network to his two lieutenants, Rob Kennedy and [[Susan Swain]].<ref name=Stelter/> On May 14, 2024, the C-SPAN board of directors announced that longtime [[CNN]] executive Sam Feist would become the new CEO. This announcement followed a national search initiated after Swain and Kennedy announced they would be retiring.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/2024/05/14/sam-feist-cspan-ceo-cnn/ | title=Sam Feist, longtime CNN executive, will become CEO of CSPAN | author=Jeremy Barr | newspaper=[[Washington Post]] | date=May 14, 2024}}</ref> | In 2012, Lamb became executive [[chair (title)|chair]] of C-SPAN; [[Susan Swain]] and Robert Kennedy succeeded him as co-[[chief executive officer]]s (CEO).<ref name="BrianStelter">{{cite news |title=C-Span Founder to Step Down as Chief Executive |first=Brian|last=Stelter |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/19/business/media/c-span-founder-brian-lamb-to-step-down-as-ceo.html |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=March 18, 2012 |access-date=February 13, 2013}}</ref> Swain and Kennedy were succeeded as CEO by Sam Feist, head of [[CNN]]'s Washington D.C. [[news bureau]], in 2024.<ref name="WaPoBarr">{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/2024/05/14/sam-feist-cspan-ceo-cnn/ |title=Sam Feist, longtime CNN executive, will become CEO of C-SPAN |last1=Barr |first1=Jeremy |work=[[The Washington Post]] |date=May 14, 2024 |access-date=April 7, 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Sam Feist |website=C-SPAN |url=https://www.c-span.org/person/sam-feist/9276824/ |access-date=April 7, 2024}}</ref> Lamb retired in 2024 and was succeeded as chair by [[Patrick J. Esser|Patrick Esser]].<ref name="WaPoBarr"/><ref>{{cite news |title=C-SPAN Founder Brian Lamb Retires After 47 Years |work=C-SPAN |url=https://www.c-span.org/clip/washington-journal/c-span-founder-brian-lamb-retires-after-47-years/5130554 |date=August 30, 2024 |access-date=April 7, 2025 }}</ref> }}

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Here's what it would look like all together:
{{box| In 2012, Lamb became executive [[chair (title)|chair]] of C-SPAN; [[Susan Swain]] and Robert Kennedy succeeded him as co-[[chief executive officer]]s (CEO).<ref name="BrianStelter">{{cite news |title=C-Span Founder to Step Down as Chief Executive |first=Brian|last=Stelter |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/19/business/media/c-span-founder-brian-lamb-to-step-down-as-ceo.html |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=March 18, 2012 |access-date=February 13, 2013}}</ref> Swain and Kennedy were succeeded as CEO by Sam Feist, head of [[CNN]]'s Washington D.C. [[news bureau]], in 2024.<ref name="WaPoBarr">{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/2024/05/14/sam-feist-cspan-ceo-cnn/ |title=Sam Feist, longtime CNN executive, will become CEO of C-SPAN |last1=Barr |first1=Jeremy |work=[[The Washington Post]] |date=May 14, 2024 |access-date=April 7, 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Sam Feist |website=C-SPAN |url=https://www.c-span.org/person/sam-feist/9276824/ |access-date=April 7, 2024}}</ref> Lamb retired in 2024 and was succeeded as chair by [[Patrick J. Esser|Patrick Esser]].<ref name="WaPoBarr"/><ref>{{cite news |title=C-SPAN Founder Brian Lamb Retires After 47 Years |work=C-SPAN |url=https://www.c-span.org/clip/washington-journal/c-span-founder-brian-lamb-retires-after-47-years/5130554 |date=August 30, 2024 |access-date=April 7, 2025}}</ref> }}
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Here's why I'm requesting these changes: 

*The current paragraph isn't accurate. Lamb did not semi-retire. He became chair of the board. The sourcing used and other sourcing available does not support a statement of semi-retirement
*The paragraph uses some future-looking and otherwise non-encyclopedic language related to the succession of Sam Feist. My proposed replacement makes it clear the succession has happened, rather than talking in announcements which goes against WP:CRYSTALBALL
*The paragraph's sourcing is not correct, and the cited Stelter piece says nothing about the succession at C-SPAN. I suspect this is just due to a similarity in the ref name to a different Stelter source. I have made a sourcing update so that sources match the content

Because I have a conflict of interest, I will avoid making direct changes to the article. {{ping|GRuban}} would you have any interest in reviewing this request since you reviewed my Susan Swain requests? Please let me know what you think! Cheers, [[User:BINK Robin|BINK Robin]] ([[User talk:BINK Robin|talk]]) 19:21, 15 April 2025 (UTC)

:{{Done}} [[User:Ilovefood123123|Ilovefood123123]] ([[User talk:Ilovefood123123|talk]]) 10:10, 29 May 2025 (UTC)
::{{replyto|Ilovefood123123}} Thank you! [[User:BINK Robin|BINK Robin]] ([[User talk:BINK Robin|talk]]) 20:55, 29 May 2025 (UTC)

==Small updates==
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Hi editors, for my next request I propose a series of small updates that I think will improve the article:

'''Infobox'''
*Add "Key people" field, list Sam Feist as CEO in field 

'''Channel expansion and access'''
*{{xt|C-SPAN3, the most recent expansion channel, began full-time operations on January 22, 2001.}}
**Remove {{xt|the most recent expansion channel}}. This was almost 25 years ago and that phrase may be more confusing than helpful for readers. 

'''Senate and House of Representatives'''
*{{xt|C-SPAN2, the first of the C-SPAN spin-off networks, provides uninterrupted live coverage of the United States Senate.}}
**Change "spin-off" to "sister". It's not accurate to describe C-SPAN2 as a spin-off network, the source does not use that language either. [https://www.thewrap.com/happy-25th-birthday-c-span2/ The Wrap] refers to it as a sister network. Alternatively, the phrase {{xt|the first of the C-SPAN spin-off networks}} could be removed entirely as I believe it being the first sister network is covered in the ''History'' section 

'''C-SPAN and C-SPAN2 flagship programs'''
*{{xt|On the weekend schedule, C-SPAN's main program is Q&A, a Sunday evening interview program hosted by Susan Swain}}
**Peter Slen is the host of Q&A. This [https://www.cablefax.com/programming/exclusive-c-span-searching-for-new-ceo Cablefax article] confirms that he took over in 2024

'''Organization and operations'''
*{{xt|C-SPAN has for many years led by co-CEOs Rob Kennedy and Susan Swain. Founder and former CEO Brian Lamb serves as the executive chairman of the board of directors.}}
*{{xt|On May 14, 2024, the C-SPAN board of directors announced that longtime CNN executive Sam Feist would become the new CEO. This announcement followed a national search initiated after Swain and Kennedy announced they would be retiring. Swain will stay on as CEO until Feist officially begins his duties in the summer of 2024.}}
**Remove both of the above. This information is outdated and was changed with my last edit request.
**If editors like, a new sentence could be added about the current leadership: {{xt|C-SPAN is led by CEO Sam Feist and board chair Patrick Esser.<ref name="WaPoBarr"/><ref>{{cite news |title=C-SPAN Founder Brian Lamb Retires After 47 Years |work=C-SPAN |url=https://www.c-span.org/clip/washington-journal/c-span-founder-brian-lamb-retires-after-47-years/5130554 |date=August 30, 2024 |access-date=April 7, 2025}}</ref>}}
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::*Reference #1 above is not rendering because it is already named in the live article

Please let me know what you think! Cheers, [[User:BINK Robin|BINK Robin]] ([[User talk:BINK Robin|talk]]) 20:55, 29 May 2025 (UTC)

:{{done}} I think it would also help if the figures were updated, thanks.[[User:Ilovefood123123|Ilovefood123123]] ([[User talk:Ilovefood123123|talk]]) 01:43, 30 May 2025 (UTC)
::{{replyto|Ilovefood123123}} thanks! I will get to work on that table/those figures. Is it okay to ping you when they're ready for review? [[User:BINK Robin|BINK Robin]] ([[User talk:BINK Robin|talk]]) 18:53, 30 May 2025 (UTC)
:::That’s totally fine. [[User:Ilovefood123123|Ilovefood123123]] ([[User talk:Ilovefood123123|talk]]) 03:39, 31 May 2025 (UTC)

== NCSC infobox ==

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Hi editors, I have gone through the sources I could find to update the NCSC infobox in the [[C-SPAN#Organization_and_operations|Organization and operations]] section, and this is what I came up with:

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{{Infobox organization
| name                     = National Cable Satellite Corporation
| established            = 
| founder                  = 
| founding_location  = [[Washington, D.C]]
| type                       = [[Nonprofit organization|Nonprofit]]
| status                    = [[501c3]]
| purpose                 = Public affairs broadcasting
| location_city          = Washington, D.C.
| region_served       = United States of America
| key_people           = {{ubl|Sam Feist ([[CEO]])|[[Patrick J. Esser]] ([[chair (officer)|chair]])}}
| main_organ           = C-SPAN
| revenue                 = {{decrease}} {{USD}}46.32 million
| revenue_year        = 2023
| expenses               = {{increase}} {{USD}} 46.15 million
| expenses_year      = 2023
| staff                        = 198
| staff_year              = 2023
| website                 = {{URL|c-span.org}} 
| footnotes              = <ref>{{cite web |title=Form 990 |url=https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/840751854/202510459349301326/full |via=ProPublica |date=2023 |access-date=May 30, 2025 }}</ref><ref name="WaPoBarr"/><ref>{{cite news |title=C-SPAN Founder Brian Lamb Retires After 47 Years |work=C-SPAN |url=https://www.c-span.org/clip/washington-journal/c-span-founder-brian-lamb-retires-after-47-years/5130554 |date=August 30, 2024 |access-date=April 7, 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Power Player of the Week: Brian Lamb |work=Fox News |last1=Wallace |first1=Chris |date=August 15, 2004 |access-date=May 30, 2025 |url=https://advance.lexis.com/document/?pdmfid=1519360&crid=b7439d63-0448-4813-99fe-c8f95021e965&pddocfullpath=%2Fshared%2Fdocument%2Fnews%2Furn%3AcontentItem%3A4D3J-4CJ0-00MM-P4FJ-00000-00&pdcontentcomponentid=174179&pdteaserkey=sr0&pditab=allpods&ecomp=hc-yk&earg=sr0&prid=ff291b7f-ab29-4a34-9d69-7d1f233aa946 |via=LexisNexis |url-access=subscription}}</ref>
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*Source 2 is this ''[https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/2024/05/14/sam-feist-cspan-ceo-cnn/ Washington Post]'' article. It is already a named reference in the live article
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Due to how tax documents work for nonprofits, the data for staff and revenue is a bit older, but still about a decade more current than what is in the article now. 

A few other changes I made:

*Removed the founding date. I couldn't find the source used to support it, and I couldn't verify it through alternative sources 
*Removed the tax ID. This seemed like [[WP:TMI]] to me, but if editors prefer to keep it we can certainly add it back/retain it. It is confirmed by the 990 and doesn't need a new source
*Removed "nonprofit organization" from the legal status field. This is covered by the wikilink to a 501c3 and tightens up the infobox a bit 
*Removed headquarters, replaced with location and founding location – again, I could not find that source, and the 990s don't confirm a headquarters in DC (though that would be a reasonable assumption), only that the NCSC has a location there from which to send legal documents. For maximum accuracy and verifiability, I removed the HQ field 
*Removed Affiliations field. The C-SPAN Education Foundation isn't notable in and of itself. If editors prefer to keep the affiliation it is confirmed by the 990 and doesn't need a new source. 
*Changed chairman/president field to key people and updated it with the current CEO and chair, consistent with my other edit requests 
*Changed inline citations to footnotes in the table, for a cleaner look 

Let me know what you think! {{ping|Ilovefood123123}} pinging you based on our earlier conversation about this in case you still want to review. Cheers [[User:BINK Robin|BINK Robin]] ([[User talk:BINK Robin|talk]]) 15:53, 16 June 2025 (UTC)