Western Show - C-SPAN, CableNets to Air Supreme Court Audio

C-SPAN and cable networks CNN and Court TV won a partial victory at the Supreme court, convincing Justices to allow them to broadcast audio transcripts of arguments concerning the Florida vote counts in the Presidential election. The court, which does not normally allow audio or video broadcasts of its proceedings, will provide the news organizations with tapes of the hearings that will be broadcast in full on C-SPAN and in part on CNN and Court TV. The Justices agreed to release the tapes after the Radio-Television News Directors Association and C-SPAN appealed to the Justices individually to allow cameras into the courtroom. The court declined the request but offered the audio tapes as a compromise.