This Just In
Staff -- Multichannel News, 4/9/2001
Bush Nominates Three for FCC
WASHINGTON — President Bush on Friday named two Republicans and one Democrat to fill seats on the Federal Communications Commission.
Bush's selections, which require Senate confirmation, are: Republican Kevin Martin, an adviser to current GOP FCC commissioner Harold Furtchgott-Roth, who left the FCC to join the Bush-Cheney campaign; Republican Kathleen Abernathy, once an aide to Democratic ex-FCC member James Quello and a former lobbyist for U S West; and Democrat Michael Copps, a former aide to U.S. Sen. Ernest Hollings (D-S.C.) and former Assistant Secretary of Commerce for trade development in the Clinton Administration.
Overbuild Stalls In Sacramento
SACRAMENTO, CALIF. — Western Integrated Network's $500 million overbuild of this city ran into trouble last week.
With construction already months behind schedule, city officials are now refusing to issue any additional building permits until a contractor working in the city's Natomas section addresses delayed restoration work caused by months of bad weather.
Company executives met with city officials last week and laid out an "aggressive" plan to resolve the problem "within 10 days to two weeks," said Western Integrated vice president Bill Mahon. The city will begin issuing construction permits once the restoration work is complete.
TNN Will Pop Three New Series
NEW YORK — Continuing its programming makeover, The National Network will add three new original series to its lineup in 2001-02.
The three original skeins are: TNN's Pop Across America, a weekly series hosted by comedian Steve Marmel; TNN's Robot Wars, a gladiator-style series pitting robots against each other; and TNN's Ultimate Revenge, a comedic reality series centering on the lengths to which people will go in order to get back at their friends and family.
