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C-SPAN is a private, non-profit company, created in 1979 by the cable television industry as a public service. Our mission is to provide public access to the political process. C-SPAN receives no government funding; operations are funded by fees paid by cable and satellite affiliates who carry C-SPAN programming.

Board of Directors
Neil Smit
Number of Employees 250
Contact Information

, District of Columbia

www.c-span.org

1 202 626 8797

NAICS Code Public Relations Agencies: 541820

Recent Events

  • C-SPAN Launches Online 'Convention Hub' for Upcoming Conventions

    8/20/08 - Product Announcement - View Story

  • C-SPAN fare important to democracy

    11/06/07 - New Investment - View Story

  • Presidential Libraries are Focus of C-SPAN's New Presidential History Series

    9/06/07 - Product Announcement - View Story

  • XM to Launch Presidential Election Channel

    5/23/07 - Joint Venture / Alliance - View Story

  • Campaign trail: Michelle Obama sees her role in husband's presidential campaign as wife, not key...

    5/22/07 - Merger / Acquisition - View Story

News & Analysis

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Decision Makers

Name (plus bio) Position
Michael S. Willner Director
Susan Swain Co-Coo
Rob Kennedy Executive Vice President
Dwight Tierney Founder
Barbara A Perry Media Commentator
Jonelle Henry Field Producer
Mark Feldstein Media Analyst

Board of Directors

Name (plus bio) Position
Neil Smit Board of Directors
Rocco Commisso Board of Directors
Patrick J. Esser Board Member
Bryan Grudowsky Board of Directors
William Bresnan Board of Directors

Neil Smit joined Charter in August 2005 as President, Chief Executive Officer and Director. Mr. Smit has more than 20 years of experience working with multi-service providers and leading consumer brands. Prior to joining Charter, Mr. Smit worked at Time Warner, Inc. most recently serving as the President of Time Warner's America Online Access Business, overseeing Internet access services including America OnLine ("AOL"), CompuServe, and Netscape ISP. He also served at AOL as Executive Vice President, Member Services; Chief Operating Officer of MapQuest and several other operating roles. Prior to joining AOL in 2000, Mr. Smit was a regional president with Nabisco and was with Pillsbury in a number of management positions. Mr. Smit served for five and a half years on active duty in the Navy SEAL Teams and retired from the service as a lieutenant commander. Mr. Smit serves on the boards of the National Cable and Telecommunications Association, CableLabs and C-SPAN. He has a bachelor's of science degree from Duke University and a master's degree from Tufts University's Fletcher School.

Organization Position Status
Charter Communications, Inc. President & Chief Executive Officer Current
Credit Scoring President and Chief Executive Officer Current
Aktiefokus President and Chief Executive Officer Current
Ltc International, Inc. Current
Credit Scoring Board of Directors Current
Charter Communications, Inc. Board of Directors Current
C-Span Board of Directors Current
Cable Television Laboratories, Inc. Board of Directors Current
Nabisco Regional President Former
Tufts University Fletcher School of Law Former
Time Warner Inc. Former
Pillsbury Former

Organization Position Status
Cable Days Co-Founder, Vice Chairman, Chief Executive Officer Current
Iggyz.Com Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Current
Insight Communications Company, Inc. Chief Executive Officer Current
Insight Communications Company, Inc. Co-Founder Current
The Cable Center Chairman Current
Insight Communications Company, Inc. Chairman Current
Boston University's College of Communication Board of Directors Current
Women and Company Board of Directors Current
Cable Television Laboratories, Inc. Board of Directors Current
C-Span Director Current
Walter Kaitz Foundation Director Current
Insight Communications Company, Inc. President Former
Boston University's College of Communication Graduate Former

Organization Position Status
The National Press Foundation President and Co-Chief Operating Officer of C-Span Current
C-Span President Current
C-Span Co-Coo Current
The DP1 Camera Shop Current
The Talbots, Inc. Board of Directors Current
The National Press Foundation Director Current
C-Span Executive Vice President Former
C-Span Producer Former

Rocco B. Commisso has 23 years of experience with the cable television industry and has served as our Chairman and Chief Executive Officer since founding our predecessor company in July 1995. Mr. Commisso served as Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and a director of Cablevision Industries Corporation from 1986 to 1995. From 1981 to 1986, Mr. Commisso served as Senior Vice President of Royal Bank of Canada's affiliate in the United States, where he founded and directed a specialized lending group to media and communications companies. Mr. Commisso began his association with the cable industry in 1978 at The Chase Manhattan Bank, where he was assigned to manage the bank's lending activities to communications firms including the cable industry. He serves on the boards of the National Cable Television Association, Cable Television Laboratories, Inc. and C-SPAN. Mr. Commisso holds a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering and a Master of Business Administration from Columbia University.

Organization Position Status
Onmedia Communications Company, Inc. Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Current
Mediacom Communications Corporation Chief Executive Officer Current
Financials.Com Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Current
401KID, Inc. Current
Mediacom Communications Corporation Chairman Current
C-Span Board of Directors Current
Cable Television Laboratories, Inc. Board of Directors Current
Royal Bank of Canada Senior Vice President of Royal Bank of Canada's Affiliate Former
National Cable & Telecommunications Association Former
Chase Manhattan Former
Mediacom Communications Corporation Director Former
Columbia University Master of Business Administration Former
Columbia University Bachelor of Science In Industrial Engineering Former

Patrick Esser is President of Cox Communications, Inc., a multi-service broadband communications and entertainment company with more than 6 million residential and commercial customers. Esser brings 30 years of experience in cable and telecommunications to bear on his role as Cox's top executive, a position he's held since 2006. He joined Cox in 1979 as Director of Programming in Hampton Roads, Va., and was part of the original management team that pioneered Cox's advertising sales division now known as Cox Media. Named corporate Vice President of Advertising Sales in 1991, Esser was presented with the Cable television Advertising Bureau President's Award just three years later. Esser became Vice President of Operations for Cox's Western Division in 1999, and a year later was promoted to Senior Vice President of Operations. In 2004, Esser was promoted to Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer. Cox has earned numerous accolades during Esser's tenure as President. In 2006, Cox debuted in DiversityInc's listing of the Top 50 Companies for Diversity, and in three years, the company scaled the list from its initial ranking at number 32 to its' ranking at number 6 in 2008. In 2008, DiversityInc also ranked Cox within the Top 10 Workplaces for African Americans and the Women in Cable Television (WICT) Foundation named Cox the Best Operator for Women in Cable for the sixth straight year. In 2006, Cox was named the top employer in cable by CableWorld, and in 2007 Esser was personally distinguished with recognition as Multichannel News'"first 'Executive of the Year." Customer service excellence remains a Cox hallmark under Esser's leadership. Cox ranks highly in annual J.D. Power and Associates studies of consumer satisfaction. In 2008, for the sixth consecutive year, Cox received highest honors for Residential Telephone Customer Satisfaction StudySM; in the West and ranked highest among small/midsize business data providers in their Major Provider Business Telecommunications StudySM. To-date, Cox is the only telecommunications and entertainment company to receive top honors recognition from J.D. Power in studies of video, telephone and high-speed Internet satisfaction. In 2007, Cox also received PC Magazine's Readers' Choice Award for Cox High Speed Internet Service. Esser currently serves as Vice Chair of the National Cable & Telecommunications Association, following successful tenure as treasurer and co-chair of The Cable Show, the industry's premier annual event in 2007. He also serves on the board of directors of C-SPAN, the Cable & Telecommunications Association for Marketing Educational Foundation, CableLabs, and Cable in the Classroom. Additionally, he serves as an adviser to the Association of Cable Communicators and the National Association for Multi-Ethnicity in Communications. Esser also serves as a Southeastern Trustee of the Boys & Girls Clubs of America. A graduate of the University of Northern Iowa, Esser holds a B.A. and M.A. in communications media, and in 2003 was presented the university's Heritage Honors Alumni Achievement Award.

Organization Position Status
Cox Communications, Inc. President Current
National Cable & Telecommunications Association Chairman of Board Current
C-Span Board Member Current
Cable Television Laboratories, Inc. Board Member Current
Cox & Company, Inc. President Former
Cox Communications, Inc. Chief Operating Officer Former
Cox Communications, Inc. Vice President ,Operations Former
Cox Communications, Inc. Director, Programming Hampton Roads, Va. Former
Cox & Company, Inc. Director of Programming Former
Educational Foundation Chairman of Board Former
University of Northern Iowa B.A. and M.A. In Communications Media and Former

Organization Position Status
C-Span Executive Vice President Current

Organization Position Status
C-Span Founder Current

Organization Position Status
Lre & Virginia Executive Director Current
McConnell Center Carter Glass Professor of Government and Founding Executive Director of the Center for Civic Renewal Current
The Center for Civic Renewal At Sweet Briar College Executive Director Professor of Government Current
Street Law, Inc Co-Facilitator, Supreme Court Summer Institute for Teachers Current
Sweet Briar College Carter Glass Professor of Government Current
C-Span Media Commentator Current
National Public Radio Inc. Media Commentator Current
Freedom Co-Author Current
Street Law, Inc Director Current
University of Virginia Ph.D. Former
University of Louisville B.A. Former

Organization Position Status
Madison Lane Events, LLC Director, Press and Media Relations Current
C-Span Field Producer Current
Madison Lane Events, LLC Board of Directors Current

For nearly 20 years, Mark Feldstein was on the other side of the camera as an on-air correspondent, specializing in investigative reporting at CNN, ABC News, NBC News, and local television stations in Phoenix, Tampa, and Washington, D.C. As an investigative reporter, he has been beaten up in the U.S., detained and censored by government authorities in Egypt, and escorted out of the country under armed guard in Haiti. Feldstein's work has won broadcast journalism's most prestigious prizes: two George Foster Peabody public service awards, the Columbia-DuPont baton for investigative reporting, the Edward R. Murrow broadcasting prize, 9 regional Emmy awards, and more than three dozen other journalism prizes. He is regularly interviewed as a media analyst, appearing on live and taped broadcasts of CNN, C-Span, Court TV, HBO and NPR's "All Things Considered," as well as the BBC and other television networks and newspapers in Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Ireland, Japan, Norway, Poland and Sweden. Feldstein comments frequently about journalistic coverage of politics, government, and public policy, especially involving TV news or investigative reporting on Washington scandals. Professor Feldstein has a Ph.D in Journalism and Mass Communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2002, and a B.A. in Government from Harvard University, 1979.

Organization Position Status
C-Span Media Analyst Current
Gstudynet.Org Director Current
ABC News, Inc. Correspondent Former
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Ph.D In Journalism and Mass Communication Former
Harvard University B.A. In Government Former

Organization Position Status
Dana Druckenmiller CIO Current
University of Texas School of Law Former
C-Span Board of Directors Current
Bellarmine College Former

Organization Position Status
Bresnan Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Current
Bresnan Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Bresnan Communications Former
Cable Television Laboratories, Inc. Board of Directors Current
Women and Company Board of Directors Current
Digital IP Summit Board of Directors Current
C-Span Board of Directors Current
The Cable Center Chairman Former
Digital IP Summit Chairman Former
Women and Company member Former
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