Kennard, the FCC's current general counsel, would succeed Reed Hundt if confirmed by the Senate.
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Chris Kennard, finance director at the Shadwell stud farm, said he was "surprised and naturally disappointed".
But another powerful telecommunications policy maker in Washington is furious at the White House for Kennard's selection.
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"Once the technology is there, you can build on it, " FCC Chairman William Kennard said earlier this week.
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An undergraduate at Stanford and law student at Yale, Kennard had first hoped to wind up in broadcast management.
Kennard, the first African-American to chair the FCC, doesn't shy from racial issues.
Obama's philosophy on technology is "more activist" than that of GOP presidential candidate John McCain, Kennard tells NPR's Michele Norris.
William Kennard, for example, made a top priority of closing the digital divide for African-Americans and for Americans with disabilities.
That's according to William Kennard, a technology adviser to the Obama campaign.
"Multiple pipes is no pipe dream, " swooned former FCC chairman William Kennard.
FCC's chairman, Bill Kennard, is right to have put Mr Ebbers on notice that he can expect his deal to be sceptically scrutinised.
Kennard was favored for the job by Vice President Al Gore.
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Byron Kennard is founder and executive director of the Washington D.
President Bill Clinton has settled on William Kennard as his choice to become the next chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, well-placed administration officials tell CNN.
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"As schools around the country think about how they are going to use technology in the classroom, they should also think about how to use it responsibly, " Kennard said in a statement.
In his brief opening remarks, Kennard reflected on the dramatic changes in media since his own childhood in the 1960s, when TV was dominated by three networks, and his mother controlled his viewing habits.
Last week, Kennard rejected a recommendation from the FCC's Local and State Government Advisory Committee to begin an inquiry into complaints about cable companies with an eye towards forcing them to open up their networks.
An indication of disappearing diversity that worries Mr Irving who, like Mr Kennard, is black, is that the already small number of stations owned by blacks and Hispanics has fallen by 10% since the act.
In debuting the site, FCC Chairman William Kennard endorsed the development of a scheme to coax schools and libraries into establishing their own Internet filtering strategies, possibly as a condition to receiving money from the E-Rate program.
While the FCC's Kennard has been dropping hints for months that he sides with cable operators on the issue and does not want to see regulations requiring access, last week he announced that the commission will likely intervene.
That person also would be charged with making sure government is more transparent and that there is outreach to the public to get the "best ideas on how we can govern the country, " says Kennard, a former chairman of the Federal Communications Commission in the Clinton administration.
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