Cable Keeps Eye on Bells.(Baby Bells )(Brief article)

Multichannel News, April, 2006 by Hearn, Ted

By Ted Hearn Atlanta-- National Cable & Telecommunications Association president Kyle McSlarrow promised to fight the Baby Bells at every turn to ensure that their negative advertising campaign against cable does result in lopsided legislation passed by Congress. "You should know that I have some fundamental views about policy fights.

First, no false claim is going to go unchallenged. And, second, no false and negative ad campaign is going to go without a response," McSlarrow said last Monday in National Show remarks delivered in the middle of one of cable's most serious policy battles in a decade. In a few weeks, the House Energy and Commerce Committee is expected to pass a bill that would award national cable franchises to telephone companies...

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