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Microsoft no doubt hopes to galvanize others into investing. FCC chairman Reed Hundt believes the deal will prompt the cable industry and then the phone companies to up their investment in interactivity. "For the past year and a half the cable industry has been trying to explain to everybody what they have and how valuable it is," says Hundt. "No one was listening until Gates gave his stamp of approval...
Anyone paying attention could have seen these things happening, but it took an event like Gates' investment in Comcast to drive it all home. "In one day there's an epiphany," observes the FCC chairman, Reed Hundt. Gates is the premier techno-futurist of our time. "He's saying what's past is past--this is the future," notes media analyst John Reidy at Smith Barney. Some cable executives may now enjoy vindication for their expensive strategies, and investors may reap the rewards for their patience--although cable stocks have been so horrible that they'll have to shoot much...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Federal Communication Commission Chairman Reed Hundt, who is both loved and hated by the industry he oversees, announced Tuesday he plans to resign but will stay on for the next several months until a successor is found. Hundt, who spearheaded a major effort to deregulate the communications industry, said he is stepping down to spend more time with his children and to write a book about his experiences at the FCC. Hundt said he was proud of his record: "In the past three years, this commission has put the ball in the net more often than...
Bill Clinton wants to see better children's shows on TV--or else. Over the weekend his aides were wrangling with broadcasters over a "voluntary" agreement to run three hours of educational programming on each station each week. (FCC chairman Reed Hundt's attempt to mandate such a rule ended in a deadlock between Republican and Democratic commissioners.) Clinton hoped to announce an agreement Monday at a White House conference where such advertisers as Pizza Hut, Lego and Reebok would voice support for the new educational shows. But if broadcasters balked, Clinton had a hammer: he threatened to appoint...
Some V-chip critics see the centralized rating concept as too rigid. They support instead one of several devices currently in development that enable parents to make their own choices of which shows to block out. fcc chairman Reed Hundt, a V-chip booster, contends that it will be only "the first of a slew of products. I predict remote-control devices with selection programs. There will be a variety of ways to receive...