Michael Powell will have completed a big chunk of his to-do list if the FCC follows through with his plan to rewrite broadcast-ownership limits on June 2. With that task and the grueling duty of reviewing phone-access rules behind him, agency observers wonder whether and when Chairman Powell will leave the commission. He is unlikely to remain until his term ends in June 2007, but there is no consensus on an exit strategy. Powell isn't talking, but he has served on the commission since November 1997―five years and counting―two of them as chairman. Few chairmen serve on the panel more than half a decade.
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