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Article: Introducing: Andrew C. Barrett: FCC Commissioner. (Federal Communications Commission)
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- Ebony
- Article date:
- October 1, 1991
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ANDREW C. Barrett is the answer. And the question a lot of people in Hollywood and Washington are asking is: How did the only Black member of the Federal Communications Commission land in the power seat during the battle over how the agency would divvy up the multibillion-dollar rights to television reruns?
No one-from the entertainment emperors to the political potentates--could figure that one out. It was common knowledge that the 49-year-old Barrett was a master of the bureaucratic art with 9 years of experience on regulatory commissions. And some people knew that he had played a major role in combining three agencies into the Illinois Department of Commerce ...