Over "the Hill" C-SPAN Turns 30!

C-SPAN turned the big 3-0 today! To commemorate their 30 year mark, the fine folks at C-SPAN released a list of "30 Facts About C-SPAN." Check out a few below - the full list after the jump. Number of current U.S. Representatives born after C-SPAN's March 1979 launch: 1. Percentage of C-SPAN viewers who say they voted in 2008: 90%. Number of hours of Congressional Committee hearings that C-SPAN has covered since 1981: 19,641. Estimated number of cable viewers who watch C-SPAN at least once or twice a week: 39 million. More from The Hill, The Roanoke Times here, The Baltimore Sun here. From your friends at FishbowlDC: Happy Birthday C-SPAN! 1. Date the U.S. House of Representatives goes on TV and the cable industry launches C-SPAN to 3.5 million homes: March 19, 1979. 2. First U.S. Representative to speak on the House floor as C-SPANâ€™s live coverage begins on March 19, 1979: Al Gore. 3. Number of hours of U.S. House debate televised live by C-SPAN since 1979: 28,603. 4. Number of current U.S. Representatives who were in office when C-SPAN begins televising House sessions in March 1979: 18. 5. Number of current U.S. Representatives born after C-SPAN's March 1979 launch: 1. 6. Date that the cable industry launches C-SPAN2 with live U.S. Senate debate: June 2, 1986. 7. Number of hours of U.S. Senate debate C-SPAN2 has carried live since 1986: 26,954. 8. Number of current U.S. Senators who were in the Senate when C-SPAN2 began live floor coverage in June 1986: 17. 9. Number of hours of Congressional Committee hearings that C-SPAN has covered since 1981: 19,641. 10. Number of video cameras currently owned by C-SPAN: 57. 11. Hours of programming stored in C-SPAN's video archives since they were established in 1987: 156,715 12. Number of U.S. TV households that can watch C-SPAN: 97 million. 13. Estimated number of cable viewers who watch C-SPAN at least once or twice a week: 39 million. (based on Hart Research numbers) 14. Male/female percentages of C-SPAN's regular audience: 50/50. (source: Hart Research) 15. Percentage of C-SPAN viewers who say they voted in 2008: 90%. (source: Hart Research) 16. Percentage of C-SPAN viewers who say theyâ€™ve watched their Senator or Representative on C-SPAN: 49%. (source: Hart Research) 17. Number of C-SPAN's Washington Journal morning call-in programs since the series began in January 1995: 5,110. 18. Number of individual guests who have appeared on C-SPAN's Washington Journal morning call-in programs since the series began in 1995: 7,439. 19. Number of Presidential events covered by the C-SPAN networks since 1980: 7,219. 20. Number of hours of first-run coverage of the 2008 presidential campaign on the C-SPAN networks: 4,190. 21. Since 1993, number of miles traveled by the C-SPAN Buses as they visited nearly 4,000 schools: 875,985. 22. Number of teachers who have signed up as members of C-SPAN Classroom, a free civics teaching program: 24,306. 23. Number of entries submitted to C-SPAN's 2009 StudentCam video documentary competition: 921. 24. Broadcast frequency of WCSP-FM, C-SPAN's Washington, DC, public affairs radio station, launched in1997: 90.1 MHz. 25. Number of nonfiction authors featured on C-SPAN2's BookTV since it launched in 1997: 5,503. 26. Number of unique public affairs and history websites currently produced by C-SPAN: 16. 27. Year that C-SPAN begins streaming live video on the web: 1997. 28. Number of times C-SPAN's video of President Obamaâ€™s Inaugural Address has been viewed on YouTube: 3.7 million. 29. Total license fees paid by cable and satellite companies since 1979 to support C-SPAN operations: $872 million. 30. Amount of federal funds received by C-SPAN to support operations during its 30-year history: $0.

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