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Broadcasting & CableFormer FCC Chairman Reed Hundt says the Comcast/NBCU merger is a vertical one and doesn't see any problems with it; former FCC Chairman Michael Powell says the Supreme Court has been "irresponsible" in not giving the FCC more guidance on indecency enforcement; and former Chairman Kevin Martin says his one policy regret is not getting to do more about cable's prices and bundling of service.
And they all agree that the only reason the FCC did not get rid of broadcast-newspaper crossownership rules was politics, since the all agreed they ought to go. Powell said the market was corrupted by those political calculations and their impact on outcomes.
Those were just some of the observations from the three, gathered for a roundtable discussion for C-SPAN's Communicators series (
http://www.c-span.org/series/communicators.aspx).
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