The nation’s cable lobby has landed a powerful Washington, D.C., insider. Michael Powell, the former chairman of the Federal Communications Commission from 2001-05, will join the National Cable & Telecommunications Association as president and CEO. His first day will be April 25.
Powell succeeds Kyle McSlarrow, who recently accepted a new position with Comcast/NBC Universal as president in Washington.
As CEO of NCTA, Powell will be the cable industry’s chief advocate and spokesman, representing the business before Congress, the Obama administration and the FCC.
A Republican and strong supporter of the free market, Powell was nominated to the FCC in 1997 by a Democrat, then-President Bill Clinton.
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