C-SPAN Now 4+

Welcome To Our Tortured Hall Of Smoke & Mirrors

If you want a front seat to the torture political circus that’s Washington D.C. it’s here. Witness professional propagandists expound their prevaricating narratives with operatic intensity and enthusiasm. Witness first hand our rogue, unaccountable permanent federal bureaucracy operating in concert with our inept, corrupt, professional political class as they work together to justify their incredulity, incompetence, apathy, deceit, ruthless ambition, treachery, misdirections, half truths, lies and decades long failures to resolve issues of significance and importance to the American people. It’s all here, right before your eyes. Listen and learn, the truth is stranger than fiction- truth you won’t get from legacy, leftist, or corporate media.

Unfiltered news in your pocket - C-SPAN Now

Way to go, C-SPAN! Finally an app to watch political events without TV talking heads or commercial interruptions. I love how C-SPAN just lets you see the whole thing and this puts it all on my phone to watch.

Quick take: it's easy to find live coverage of events, and the Featured Clips are timely and a great way to catch-up on what's newsy each day. Best of all you get free, live access to the big political events. As with other TV nets' apps you have to sign-in to watch the actual 3 C-SPAN TV channels (I guess that's fair because that's how C-SPAN is funded). All in all I'm giving this top rating for its simplicity and for giving me what I most want to watch from C-SPAN.

Developer Response ,

We're thrilled you appreciate C-SPAN's think-for-yourself approach to showing Washington's biggest news making events. Thank you for your kind words – we're glad you're liking the app!

Not working on iPod Touch?

I love the new app. I have an iPhone 6S Plus. That’s a pretty old device, though it runs the latest version of iOS. The app runs just fine on this device.

However, I also have an iPod Touch, 7th gen. This is a much newer device, released in 2019. I’ve had mine since 2020. It also runs the latest version of iOS.

Oddly enough, video clips from the “Watch” page don’t play on the iPod Touch. Live stuff will play.

But if I tap on a video from “Featured Clips” or “Washington Journal” or “Q&A”, the page loads up, with a blank space where the video player is supposed to be.

If I tap on that blank space, I can see the video player, with the start and end time and the play button. I can tap the play button, but the video never starts playing.

I hope you can test it on an iPod Touch and figure out the problem. The iPod touch is my goto device for consuming media around the house.

Developer Response ,

We're so happy you are loving the new app! Thanks for reporting this issue. We have asked our developers to look into it. Please be on the lookout for updates to the app.