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C-SPAN to stream on YouTube TV and Hulu Live

Services to pay same fee as cable carriers

Congress pushed for deal after airtime concerns

C-SPAN revenue dropped from $64M in 2019 to $45M in 2023

C-SPAN said Wednesday that it had reached a deal to have its three channels air on YouTube TV and Hulu’s live television feed, ending a dispute that had led to a revenue squeeze for the public affairs network in the cord-cutting era.

The network said the streaming services would pay the same fee as cable and satellite companies, roughly 87 cents a year per subscriber, and that C-SPAN would continue its no-advertising policy on television.

Congress involved itself in the issue, passing a resolution this spring calling on the services’ parent companies — Alphabet for YouTube a

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