V for Vendetta

V FOR VENDETTA
[SOURCE: Broadcasting&Cable, AUTHOR: John Eggerton]
National Cable & Telecommunications Association President Kyle McSlarrow has taken off the gloves. The face of the nation's biggest cable operators says flatly that FCC Chairman Kevin Martin is on a vendetta to hurt the cable industry. That's not the sort of rhetoric lobbyists usually direct toward powerful government officials who control their fates. But McSlarrow says the chairman is continuing to push an anti-cable agenda with “hyper-regulatory zeal” and no rational justification. But while McSlarrow has been talking loudly about the chairman, he has also been talking quietly with the unlikeliest of fellow trade lobbyists: David Rehr, the head of the National Association of Broadcasters. These strange bedfellows have met about how to work together in the digital age in order to find a win-win blueprint for delivering TV service. McSlarrow's goal is to keep chairman Martin and the FCC out of that equation.
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