Hunt on for next FCC chief: handful emerge to follow retiring chairman. (FCC Chairman Reed Hundt)

Multichannel News, June, 1997 by Hearn, Ted

WASHINGTON - As Federal Communications Commission chairman Reed Hundt approached the podium at the Mayflower Hotel here last week, he paused, scanning a ballroom of cable TV executives midway through lunch. "Thank you for not serving lame duck today," Hundt quipped, drawing laughs from an audience that included National Cable Television Association chairman Robert Miron and NCTA president Decker Anstrom.

A day earlier, Hundt announced his resignation, effective as soon as President Clinton can win Senate confirmation of his replacement - a transition that could take six months or more. "We are, as a group, bent on continuing to deal with all of the matters that are on the plate," Hundt said at a May 27 press conference at FCC headquarters. That...

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