Introducing: Andrew C. Barrett: FCC Commissioner. (Federal Communications Commission) From: Ebony | Date: October 1, 1991| Author: Haywood, Richette | COPYRIGHT 1991 Johnson Publishing Co. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

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 th...