The FCC and Public Knowledge veteran succeeds the retiring Gene Kimmelman as head of the public interest group.
Public interest groups are practically salivating that starting today, TV stations will have to begin posting online their political disclosure files containing information about who is spending what in the 2012 election. And they’re organizing to take full advantage of the more easily-available information.
The public interest groups say the FCC record is not complete without Comcast programming contracts; the MSO maintains it complied with info requests.