CableLabs CEO Search Coming Up Empty?

For about six months, CableLabs has been looking for someone to replace Dick Green, the guy who has run the cable-technology consortium since it was formed in 1988. The announcement came last fall that Green would leave the post when his contract expires in December 2009. (See Green to Leave CableLabs.)

And apparently, so far: no dice.

According to an industry insider, the “first round [of candidates] didn’t satisfy.” As of a few weeks ago the search committee was widening its net. The sentiment, this executive says, is: “We’ll know it when we see it.”

CableLabs declined to comment.