C-SPAN's Brian Lamb is Stepping Aside

Brian Lamb, who created the revolutionary nonprofit cable television network C-Span in the late 1970s and has been its public face ever since, is handing it over to two lieutenants, Rob Kennedy and Susan Swain.

Effective April 1, they will become the co-chief executives of C-Span and Mr. Lamb will become the executive chairman, formalizing a management change that has been years in the making. Mr. Lamb will continue to host “Q&A,” his Sunday night interview program, and will pursue other interests, like teaching.

The announcement will come on Monday, 33 years to the day that C-Span — short for Cable-Satellite Public Affairs Network — came onto cable television, predating CNN and ESPN.

Mr. Lamb, a white-haired Washington staple whose name is synonymous with C-Span, is among the last of the founding generation of cable TV creators to give up the title of chief executive. He said he had been planning to do so for at least two years. NY Times

it's the end of an era. and what will fascist Fridays be without Mr Lamb?