Martin Pledges Even Playing Field

LAS VEGAS Federal Communications Commission chairman Kevin Martin insisted he has no anti-cable agenda during an address at Monday’s opening session of the National Cable & Telecommunications Association’s Cable Show here.

And while he wasn’t greeted with an overwhelming clamor of approbation, Martin didn’t draw any caws from the boo birds, either, although his one quiet attempt at a joke was met with stony silence.

Martin, who has been aggressive in his regulation of digital cable services, is widely seen as a powerful antagonist to the MSOs’ ambitions to maintain their relative stranglehold over the broadband space.