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Steve Brust
Woodland, California
Cable Company: Charter Communications

3/09/04: WASHINGTON, DC

From the start, I was hooked. 24/7 it was on, and 18/6 I was watching. It was my 2nd year of college at the Univeristy of California, Davis, where I was studying Biology, and two years later I was studying Community Development with an emphasis in local media. My inspiration for changing my life's path was C-SPAN.

By the time I had graduated from U.C. Davis, I had completed an internship at Davis Community TV and had studied local media in Kyoto, Japan, and Taxco, Mexico. But, my dream of working at C-SPAN continued. After spending a year in Europe studying local media in Milton Keynes, England, and Madrid, Spain, I returned home still searching for my niche. After returning to school for a few years, I returned "home" to Davis Community TV and started working as a staff trainer and production assistant. I began making contacts county-wide during an internship with Yolo Area Regional Network when I found my current job at WAVE TV in Woodland, CA.

Over the past two years, I started modeling our programming after C-SPAN. The top priorities for us are fairness, quality, and education, all done in a simple, clear, and professional manner.

Now, we are working with Charter Communications, the Yolo County Board of Supervisors, and the cities of Woodland, Winters, Dixon, and West Sacramento to develop our own local version of C-SPAN on cable channel 18.

C-SPAN programming gives an invaluable forum for our nation to share information; now, we are working to imitate this same resource in Yolo County.

Thank you C-SPAN for your inspiration, and Happy 25th Anniversary!


ONLINE PRESS KIT >>

Contest Winners
Read the essays of the 25 contest winners.

Press Releases
Sep. 28, 2005 -- Winners Named in C-SPAN Viewer Essay Contest Marking 25 Years of Viewer Calls

Sep. 14, 2005 -- C-SPAN Marks 25 Years Of Viewer Calls-Ins With LIVE, 25-Hour Call-In Program On Oct. 7

Aug. 17, 2005 -- C-SPAN Marks 25 Years Of Viewer Calls-Ins With LIVE, 25-Hour Call-In Program On Oct. 7

News Articles
The Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY) - Oct. 10, 2005
Talkers Magazine - Cover Story Oct. 2005
Jewish World Review - Columnist David Brooks, Nov. 1999

History of Call-Ins on Radio and Television
A timeline of call-in programs

Evolution of Call-Ins on C-SPAN
A timeline of call-in programs at C-SPAN

More about C-SPAN's 25 Years of Viewer Call-Ins
Background information on C-SPAN call-in programs

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