Last month Blair Levin, the former FCC chief of staff to chairman Reed Hundt and current managing director at financial services firm Stifel Nicolaus & Company, spoke at the American Cable Association’s (ACA) Washington Summit.

The group of independent cable operators seemed eager to grill the former bureaucrat about the FCC’s current disposition, which cable ops see as anti-cable. Levin told the group that the current FCC administration, and specifically chairman Kevin Martin, did not see cable as a the vehicle for broadband deployment that was going to achieve the commissions goals for the future.

This Q&A with Levin shed light on chairman Martin’s attitude toward cable that many independent operators have traditionally dismissed as “he just doesn’t like us” or “he must ...Read More