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Statement of NCTA President & CEO Kyle McSlarrow Regarding the Senate Confirmations of FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski, FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell and NTIA Administrator Larry Strickling

Statement of NCTA President & CEO Kyle McSlarrow Regarding Meredith Atwell Baker’s Nomination to the Federal Communications Commission

CableLabs has announced that it has named Panasonic Corp. of North America Vice President and Chief Technology Officer Paul Liao as its new President and CEO, replacing the retiring Dick Green.

U.S. Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-ME) and U.S. Rep. James E. Clyburn (D-SC) were honored today for their outstanding leadership in education with a Cable’s Leaders in Learning Policymaker Award during the annual Leaders in Learning Awards ceremony.

Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ) and Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) introduced the School And Family Education about the Internet (SAFE Internet) Act.

The FCC has addressed the wireline number porting interval issue, shortening the interval from four days to one business day.

Winners announced for the prestigious 2009 Cable’s Leaders in Learning Awards from Cable in the Classroom (CIC), the cable industry’s national education foundation.

President Barack Obama plans to nominate Mignon Clyburn, a commissioner on the South Carolina PUC, for an open seat on the Federal Communications Commission.

NCTA President & CEO Kyle McSlarrow today testified before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Communications, Technology and the Internet, in Washington, D.C.

Michael J. Copps, Acting Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission announced the full membership of the Commission’s Advisory Committee on Diversity for Communications in the Digital Age.