The Minnesota House of Representatives and the Minnesota Senate produce and distribute unedited television coverage of all House and Senate floor sessions, select committee hearings, press conferences, and other issue-oriented programming. Programming is broadcast weekdays during the legislative session from 8 a.m. until 6 p.m., with extended evening and weekend coverage available for debates on high-profile issues. All broadcast programming is closed-captioned. See the House and Senate Broadcast Television Schedule page for a list of upcoming broadcast events.
All House and Senate television programming is webcast live over the internet. The live webcast service allows viewers to watch additional coverage not provided on the broadcast or to watch extended evening coverage. In addition, all television programming is archived and made available on the Legislative Media Archive page. Webcast programming is captioned using human generated and auto captioning. See the House audio and video pages for House live and House archived coverage and see the Senate Media Services pages for Senate live and archived video and Senate archived audio. The house gallery is open for public viewing during House Floor Sessions, and is accessible.