Article: Hundt fuels hard-liquor ad brouhaha. (FCC chairman Reed Hundt)

Federal Communications Commission chairman Reed Hundt is stepping up his threats to crack down on hard-liquor ads on television.

Still hinting at possibly banning the spots, Hundt last week warned that children need protection from hard-liquor ads on television, saying that kids need to be guarded "from the media's capacity to do harm."

Hundt, continuing to bear down on Seagram Co.'s television ad campaign, criticized the spots in his speech in Boston to the American Academy of Pediatrics.

Hundt referred to the Seagram TV spots, some of which are now running on local cable, and said, "Is that what the public wants done with the public's property of the ...

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