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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...
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...
...Hundt might have a tougher audience at the Los Angeles headquarters of the Fox network, home of the most popular children's programming in America. Murdoch's Fox Children's Network has virtually all the top-rated shows on Saturday morning, including the Power Rangers, Spider-Man and Eek!Stravaganza. Says Margaret Loesch, president of fcn: "I'm trying to do in our entertainment what I as a parent want broadcasters to do . We are trying to present fantasy. We drive home the point that this is not real, and we tell children not to play karate at home." Some...