4.9 Senate Television Schedule

Since the Senate televises all Senate Floor Sessions and most committee hearings, you may be able to watch Senate proceedings on your local cable station. Information about which cable operatiors carry the legislative programming, which events are scheduled to be televised, where tapes are archived, and how to order dubs is accessible via the Internet.

The following documents may interest you:
About Senate TV Program
Information about Tape Archives
TV SCHED: WEEK OF ....
Channel Guide

Accessing The Documents

WWW (World Wide Web)

Direct your Web Browser to: URL: http:://www.sen.ca.gov/

Select: Senate Gopher

Then follow the instructions for "Gopher" below

Gopher

"Point" your Gopher to: Gopher gopher.sen.ca.gov

If your Gopher does not have an option to point it to particular domain references, then locate the gopher menu option "Gopher Jewels" (Nearly every Gopher is set up to reference "Gopher Jewels" by some means). Then follow the gopher menus via Government/ and State Government/ to California Legislature Gopher/.

From the Senate Root Menu,

Select: California State Senate (Offices and Floor Action)/
Then Select: Senate Television Program/

E-Mail

Send your request for information via E-Mail as follows (you my include any number of requests in a single e-mail):

Mail to: senate-news@sen.ca.gov 
Subject: doesn't matter 
   Text: dir sen tv 
         get sen tv 0README.TXT 
         get sen tv ARCHIVES.TXT
         get sen tv CHNLGUID.TXT 
         get sen tv TV_SCHED....* 

*The "dir sen tv" command will identify the filenames that are accessible. A second e-mail can be sent with the specific filename. If you wish to try to guess, the format of the filename for a schedule is: mmffttTV.TXT

Where: mm = 2-digit month number, ff=2-digit week starting date in the month, and tt=2-digit week ending date in the month.

Example: The TV Schedule for the week of March 27-31, first posting would be in a file named:

032731TV.TXT

Send Comments or Questions via E-Mail to: News.Editor@sen.ca.gov