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I want to introduce to you the gentleman on my right, bob rosencrans, our first chairman, gave first seed money to get cspan started in 1977, believe it or not. In august 1977, bob rosencrans, president of ua columbia cable and Business Partner ken gunter, were the first Cable Operators to agree to support the idea for cspan. At that time only about 19 percent of American Homes were wired for cable. Mr. Rosencrans, who passed away this week, wrote a check for 25,000. With that seed money, cspan created the infrastructure to send out cable televisions first live views of the u. S. House of representatives. On march 19th, 1979, to some 3. 5 million homes, served by 350 cable systems. Let the public understand what goes on in washington, what the issues are and how to deal with them. And i think above all, the mission he ....
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