Martin takes charge at FCC: Bush loyalist who sparred with Powell is handed the gavel.(Federal Communications Commission)(George W. Bush)(Kevin Martin)
Multichannel News, March, 2005 by Hearn, Ted
WASHINGTON -- Is there anyone wired to the D.C. power grid who has needed to change his business card more often than Kevin Martin? In the past 12 years, Martin has held nine jobs, the biggest one coming through last week when President Bush promoted him to chairman of the Federal Communications Commission.
Martin will oversee the cable, broadcasting, telephone, wireless phone, newspaper, consumer electronics, and Internet phone industries, each one prepared to fight an adverse FCC ruling all the way the U.S. Supreme Court. The job routinely involves billion-dollar decisions and requires keen political skill--not just to balance the interests of media and telecom giants, but also to look out for the needs of consumers, state regulators and...
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