C-SPAN bus coming to OSU Tuesday

Thursday, February 6, 2014

NOTE: New location - Tour the C-SPAN bus for free and watch live broadcast earlier

Tour the C-SPAN bus on Tuesday from 10:30 a.m. - noon.

The C-SPAN bus is coming to the Oklahoma State University campus Tuesday, Feb. 11, to open its doors to students from 10:30 a.m. – noon at S. Hester St. and Morrill Ave., (on the east side of the Classroom Building, north of the Student Union) for a tour that highlights the network’s political resources and mobile video production facilities.

Go to C-SPAN earlier the same morning to watch a live broadcast from the bus featuring OSU Aerospace Engineering Professor Jamey Jacob at 8:15 a.m. when he will participate in C-SPAN’s flagship morning program,Washington Journal.

Currently on a winter tour of Big 12 Conference schools, the C-SPAN bus features touch-screen quizzes and mobile devices that promote the political programming on the three branches of government that C-SPAN offers. The bus is equipped with HD cameras and production equipment used to produce public affairs programming.

Now in its 21^st year on the road, the bus is also informing communities about C-SPAN’s ongoing public affairs series First Ladies, which airs Mondays at 8 p.m. For more information on the series, visit c-span.org/firstladies.

As of March 2014, C-SPAN will have aired 35 years of complete coverage of the House of Representatives.

Tune in to C-SPAN’s public affairs programming on the C-SPAN Networks, C-SPAN Radio, and c-span.org. In Stillwater, C-SPAN can be seen on channel 14; and C-SPAN2 on channel 96. This bus visit and event is in local partnership with Suddenlink Cable.