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Changes loom at FCC: even with a Bush win, reshuffling is likely at agency.(Federal Communications Commission)(George W. Bush)

Multichannel News, November, 2004 by Hearn, Ted

WASHINGTON -- President Bush's re-election victory last Tuesday set the stage for a personnel shake-up at the Federal Communications Commission in the weeks ahead--a time when chairman Michael Powell is expected to put the final touches on his largely deregulatory legacy. Powell's future is unclear because he has been quoted dropping hints that he plans to leave the agency, while suggesting at other times that he might be interested in remaining in the job.

A Clinton appointee, Powell joined the FCC in 1997 and was named chairman by Bush in January 2001. His current term expires in 2007. POWELL QUIET Responding to a press question after Bush's Democratic rival, Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), conceded the presidential race last Wednesday...

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