Talk:C-SPAN#Small update

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Hi editors, I'm Robin and I work for Beutler Ink. On behalf of C-SPAN, I am requesting some updates to the last paragraph of the Channel expansion and access subsection. Those changes are as follows:

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{{textdiff|Lamb semi-retired in March 2012 and gave executive control of the network to his two lieutenants, Rob Kennedy and Susan Swain. On May 14, 2024, the C-SPAN board of directors announced that longtime CNN executive Sam Feist would become the new CEO. This announcement followed a national search initiated after Swain and Kennedy announced they would be retiring.{{cite news | url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/2024/05/14/sam-feist-cspan-ceo-cnn/ | title=Sam Feist, longtime CNN executive, will become CEO of CSPAN | author=Jeremy Barr | newspaper=Washington Post | date=May 14, 2024}} | In 2012, Lamb became executive chair of C-SPAN; Susan Swain and Robert Kennedy succeeded him as co-chief executive officers (CEO).{{cite news |title=C-Span Founder to Step Down as Chief Executive |first=Brian|last=Stelter |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/19/business/media/c-span-founder-brian-lamb-to-step-down-as-ceo.html |newspaper=The New York Times |date=March 18, 2012 |access-date=February 13, 2013}} Swain and Kennedy were succeeded as CEO by Sam Feist, head of CNN's Washington D.C. news bureau, in 2024.{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/2024/05/14/sam-feist-cspan-ceo-cnn/ |title=Sam Feist, longtime CNN executive, will become CEO of C-SPAN |last1=Barr |first1=Jeremy |work=The Washington Post |date=May 14, 2024 |access-date=April 7, 2025}}{{cite web |title=Sam Feist |website=C-SPAN |url=https://www.c-span.org/person/sam-feist/9276824/ |access-date=April 7, 2024}} Lamb retired in 2024 and was succeeded as chair by Patrick Esser.{{cite news |title=C-SPAN Founder Brian Lamb Retires After 47 Years |work=C-SPAN |url=https://www.c-span.org/clip/washington-journal/c-span-founder-brian-lamb-retires-after-47-years/5130554 |date=August 30, 2024 |access-date=April 7, 2025 }} }}

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Here's what it would look like all together:

{{box| In 2012, Lamb became executive chair of C-SPAN; Susan Swain and Robert Kennedy succeeded him as co-chief executive officers (CEO).{{cite news |title=C-Span Founder to Step Down as Chief Executive |first=Brian|last=Stelter |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/19/business/media/c-span-founder-brian-lamb-to-step-down-as-ceo.html |newspaper=The New York Times |date=March 18, 2012 |access-date=February 13, 2013}} Swain and Kennedy were succeeded as CEO by Sam Feist, head of CNN's Washington D.C. news bureau, in 2024.{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/2024/05/14/sam-feist-cspan-ceo-cnn/ |title=Sam Feist, longtime CNN executive, will become CEO of C-SPAN |last1=Barr |first1=Jeremy |work=The Washington Post |date=May 14, 2024 |access-date=April 7, 2025}}{{cite web |title=Sam Feist |website=C-SPAN |url=https://www.c-span.org/person/sam-feist/9276824/ |access-date=April 7, 2024}} Lamb retired in 2024 and was succeeded as chair by Patrick Esser.{{cite news |title=C-SPAN Founder Brian Lamb Retires After 47 Years |work=C-SPAN |url=https://www.c-span.org/clip/washington-journal/c-span-founder-brian-lamb-retires-after-47-years/5130554 |date=August 30, 2024 |access-date=April 7, 2025}} }}

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Here's why I'm requesting these changes:

• The current paragraph isn't accurate. Lamb did not semi-retire. He became chair of the board. The sourcing used and other sourcing available does not support a statement of semi-retirement
• The paragraph uses some future-looking and otherwise non-encyclopedic language related to the succession of Sam Feist. My proposed replacement makes it clear the succession has happened, rather than talking in announcements which goes against WP:CRYSTALBALL
• The paragraph's sourcing is not correct, and the cited Stelter piece says nothing about the succession at C-SPAN. I suspect this is just due to a similarity in the ref name to a different Stelter source. I have made a sourcing update so that sources match the content

Because I have a conflict of interest, I will avoid making direct changes to the article. {{ping|GRuban}} would you have any interest in reviewing this request since you reviewed my Susan Swain requests? Please let me know what you think! Cheers, BINK Robin (talk) 19:21, 15 April 2025 (UTC)