Cable-Net Execs Descend on FCC.(leaders of cable-programming companies; Federal Communications Commission)

Multichannel News, November, 1999 by HEARN, TED

WASHINGTON -- A group of cable-programming chieftains paraded into the Federal Communications Commission last week in a show of strength designed to blunt broadcasters' bid to gain government-mandated cable access for digital-TV signals. Arriving at the FCC's riverfront headquarters in a coach bus, the cable group posed for photographers before fanning out to meet with Cable Services Bureau personnel, FCC chairman William Kennard and the other commissioners.

Among the 25 programming executives who made the Nov. 3 rounds at the FCC were Debra Lee, president and chief operating officer of BET Holdings Inc.; Rich Cronin, president and CEO of Fox Family Channel; and Decker Anstrom, president and CEO of The Weather Channel. But the visit was likely a...

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