Talk:C-SPAN

National Cable Satellite Corporation
Founded at	Washington, D.C
Type	Nonprofit
Legal status	501c3
Purpose	Public affairs broadcasting
Location	Washington, D.C.;
Region served	United States of America
Key people	Sam Feist (CEO); Patrick J. Esser (chair);
Main organ	C-SPAN
Revenue	US$46.32 million (2023)
Expenses	US$ 46.15 million (2023)
Staff	198 (2023)
Website	c-span.org

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NCSC infobox

This edit request by an editor with a conflict of interest has now been answered.

Hi editors, I have gone through the sources I could find to update the NCSC infobox in the Organization and operations section, and this is what I came up with:

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References

^ "Form 990". 2023. Retrieved May 30, 2025 – via ProPublica.
^ Cite error: The named reference WaPoBarr was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ "C-SPAN Founder Brian Lamb Retires After 47 Years". C-SPAN. August 30, 2024. Retrieved April 7, 2025.
^ Wallace, Chris (August 15, 2004). "Power Player of the Week: Brian Lamb". Fox News. Retrieved May 30, 2025 – via LexisNexis.

Source 2 is this Washington Post article. It is already a named reference in the live article

Due to how tax documents work for nonprofits, the data for staff and revenue is a bit older, but still about a decade more current than what is in the article now.

A few other changes I made:

Removed the founding date. I couldn't find the source used to support it, and I couldn't verify it through alternative sources
Removed the tax ID. This seemed like WP:TMI to me, but if editors prefer to keep it we can certainly add it back/retain it. It is confirmed by the 990 and doesn't need a new source
Removed "nonprofit organization" from the legal status field. This is covered by the wikilink to a 501c3 and tightens up the infobox a bit
Removed headquarters, replaced with location and founding location – again, I could not find that source, and the 990s don't confirm a headquarters in DC (though that would be a reasonable assumption), only that the NCSC has a location there from which to send legal documents. For maximum accuracy and verifiability, I removed the HQ field
Removed Affiliations field. The C-SPAN Education Foundation isn't notable in and of itself. If editors prefer to keep the affiliation it is confirmed by the 990 and doesn't need a new source.
Changed chairman/president field to key people and updated it with the current CEO and chair, consistent with my other edit requests
Changed inline citations to footnotes in the table, for a cleaner look

Let me know what you think! @Ilovefood123123: pinging you based on our earlier conversation about this in case you still want to review. Cheers BINK Robin (talk) 15:53, 16 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Done ManducatingMouser (talk) 04:51, 26 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

[1] "Form 990". 2023. Retrieved May 30, 2025 – via ProPublica.

[WaPoBarr-2] Cite error: The named reference WaPoBarr was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[3] "C-SPAN Founder Brian Lamb Retires After 47 Years". C-SPAN. August 30, 2024. Retrieved April 7, 2025.

[4] Wallace, Chris (August 15, 2004). "Power Player of the Week: Brian Lamb". Fox News. Retrieved May 30, 2025 – via LexisNexis.

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