C-Span sends its bills to the big Cable TV companies. Can you say AOL/Time Warner, Cox, and Adelphia? YES CNN, TIME Magazine, and the Atlanta Constituion pick up the big tab for C-SPAN. There is no free lunch. The big cable companies pay for C-SPAN. Brian Lamb presents his budget every year, and it they don't like what he has done they make him change or the big Cable Boys won't write the check.
These cable companies use money you pay the cable company to fund leftist political coverage that is only a little less obvious what the main channels do. They think it will fool people and it does. Since the uneducated don't watch C-Span they have to make it so it can fool brighter people. Where did you think C-Span got its money? It does not do fund raisers. It would have to answer to its veiwers if it did that. So it answers to rich Cable companies. And they call the shots.
When they had the odds equal on who could call in to C-Span (lots of lines and first come first served) they got lots of calls from the right. That reflected the makeup of the viewership. C-SPAN is so unbaised they had to structure the call-ins so they don't relfect the people who are watching. The left line, right line, and center line crap. That is a typical Democrat definition of fair. When the left is losing the vote they always want to give each side an equal number of votes. They know the Left will cheat by calling in on the Right line...and the Right will not cheat by calling in on the Left line. C-Span was well aware this would happen. Why do you think they did it?
The leftist most members of the big media conglomerates pick up the tab for C-Span. C-Span will do little that might help the right at all. They will do all they can to help the left.