I posted this back in June; and if you missed it before, here’s your chance to see it. And if you’ve seen it before, it’s definitely worth another look. And when you think about it, long extensive interviews with filmmakers on TV are a rare thing indeed.Back in May Free Angela and Free All Political Prisoners filmmaker Shola Lynch, who also directed the terrific 2004 Shirley Chisholm documentary, Chisholm '72 Unbought & Unbossed, did an hour-long interview on the C-span interview program, Q & A, hosted by C-span’s founder and former CEO Brian Lamb, about her films, her career and her life in general.Though filmmaker Zeinabu irene Davis did a fantastic interview with...
- 12/19/2013
- by Sergio
- ShadowAndAct
Though I’m just finding out about it now, the C-span interview program, Q & A, hosted by C-span’s founder and former CEO Brian Lamb, featured an interview with filmmaker Shola Lynch, in early May, about her films, her career and her life in general.Though we already have a really excellent interview with Ms. Lynch that filmmaker Zeinabu irene Davis did exclusively for us (Here) with Ms. Lynch (director of Chisholm '72: Unbought & Unbossed and Free Angela and All Political Prisoners), this C-span interview is just as good.In the hour long interview, you’ll get a real sense of Ms. Lynch’s charisma (having met her before, a couple of years ago, I can...
- 6/10/2013
- by Sergio
- ShadowAndAct
“Most of the American people would see 15-second takeouts, and they wouldn’t be characteristic,” U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia tells C-span’s Brian Lamb in an interview to be broadcast this Sunday. Lamb has long championed cameras in courtrooms including the Supreme Court — and Scalia has vigorously opposed them. He says it would “miseducate” people about proceedings that typically involve “dull stuff that only a lawyer could understand or be interested in.” Is there a First Amendment issue? Scalia says it has “nothing to do” with whether cameras belong in the courtroom.
- 7/26/2012
- by DAVID LIEBERMAN, Executive Editor
- Deadline TV
New York - C-Span founder Brian Lamb will step down from his CEO role to leave day-to-day management of the public affairs cable channel to Rob Kennedy and Susan Swain, while remaining executive chairman, the New York Times reported. Effective April 1, the two executives, who have been at the company since the 1980s, will become the co-CEOs. Lamb will continue to host Sunday night interview program Q&A, the paper said. The news became official on Monday, 33 years to the day that C-Span launched, the Times said. C-Span launched by carrying the proceedings of
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- 3/19/2012
- by Georg Szalai
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Brian Lamb, who helped found the public-affairs cable network C-span in 1978 and has been its CEO ever since, will step down at the end of the month, C-span said Sunday. Also read: Democrats Nix C-span Coverage of Health Care Debate Lamb, 70, will turn the operation over to two co-CEOs, Rob Kennedy and Susan Swain. He will remain chairman of the board and take on the new title of executive chairman, C-span said. C-span said the leadership transition has been years in the making. Kennedy, 55, and Swain, 57, have been co-presidents...
- 3/19/2012
- by Todd Cunningham
- The Wrap
Thirty-three years after C-span came into being, its creator and guiding light Brian Lamb is passing the baton for the remarkable nonprofit cable TV network to colleagues Rob Kennedy and Susan Swain, the New York Times reports. The service will announce tomorrow that Kennedy and Swain will formally take over as co-chief executives on April 1. The transition has been planned for some time and Lamb, who becomes executive chairman, will continue to host his interview program Q&A that airs Sunday nights. Lamb was a reporter covering the communications industry when he started proposing the concept to operators of then-new cable systems across the U.S. Industry executive Robert Rosencrans presented Lamb a $25,000 check to get started. The Cable-Satellite Public Affairs Network predates CNN and Espn as well as most other cable networks. C-span — which was set up to cover proceedings of the House of Representatives, and its offspring C-SPAN...
- 3/18/2012
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
New York -- Brian Lamb, who helped found the public-affairs cable network C-span in 1978 and has been its CEO ever since, will step down at the end of the month, C-span said Sunday.
Lamb, 70, is handing the reins to two co-CEOs, Rob Kennedy and Susan Swain, C-span said. He will remain chairman of the board and take on the new title of executive chairman.
C-span said the leadership transition has been years in the making. Kennedy, 55, and Swain, 57, have been co-presidents of the company since 2006. Swain joined C-span in 1982, and Kennedy joined in 1987.
Washington-based C-span is a nonprofit created and funded by cable- and satellite-tv companies. It employs 275 people.
Lamb, 70, is handing the reins to two co-CEOs, Rob Kennedy and Susan Swain, C-span said. He will remain chairman of the board and take on the new title of executive chairman.
C-span said the leadership transition has been years in the making. Kennedy, 55, and Swain, 57, have been co-presidents of the company since 2006. Swain joined C-span in 1982, and Kennedy joined in 1987.
Washington-based C-span is a nonprofit created and funded by cable- and satellite-tv companies. It employs 275 people.
- 3/18/2012
- by AP
- Aol TV.
For the first time this troubled season, the Republican candidates looked like plausible White House contenders. Matt Latimer grades the New Hampshire debate, from Bachmann's entry to Newt's return to the Paul Ryan debacle and Santorum's Leno gaffe.Plus: More Daily Beast contributors on the Gop debate. And watch eight video highlights.
This evening commenced with a warning from CNN moderator John King. Tonight's forum, he vowed, "would be different than any presidential debate you've ever seen." Uh-oh. I hate it when journalists say things like that-it always means there will be lame gimmicks, such as having random voters we don't care about waste TV time with dull questions, or a demand that the candidates introduce themselves to an audience of millions using only a single sentence. Just one candidate on stage bothered to follow that stupid rule: Newt Gingrich. The famously undisciplined former House speaker actually showed some discipline.
This evening commenced with a warning from CNN moderator John King. Tonight's forum, he vowed, "would be different than any presidential debate you've ever seen." Uh-oh. I hate it when journalists say things like that-it always means there will be lame gimmicks, such as having random voters we don't care about waste TV time with dull questions, or a demand that the candidates introduce themselves to an audience of millions using only a single sentence. Just one candidate on stage bothered to follow that stupid rule: Newt Gingrich. The famously undisciplined former House speaker actually showed some discipline.
- 6/14/2011
- by Matt Latimer
- The Daily Beast
C-span and their practice of airing primarily unscreened callers completely live made headlines on Monday when "Bill from St. Paul" called in to complain about the number of black callers. What shocked people was that host Bill Scanlan let him get through his entire racist rant. Congress.org posted an interview they did with Brian Lamb, the founder and CEO of C-span, who made it clear that the network is not going to change their screening process (they only keep out callers who are intoxicated, incoherent, or call too frequently) any time soon.
- 4/5/2010
- by Jon Bershad
- Mediaite - TV
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