Mr. Tomlinson has also occasionally worked with other White House officials on public broadcasting issues.
Two of Ms Hodgson's brightest protégés, Ed Richards and Sarah Hunter, both advise on broadcasting issues, among other things, from within Mr Blair's "policy directorate".
The agreement also requires each candidate to ask independent groups to refrain from broadcasting issue ads, and both Mr. Lazio and Mrs. Clinton said they had done so.
Hall denied it had broken any corporation rules and said he was allowed to speak up on behalf of broadcasting issues, as was Cohen, "in our own names".
"Regardless of what the N.A.B. does or doesn't do, Senator Stevens's go-to guy on broadcasting issues will still be Mitch Rose," a top Stevens aide, Lisa Sutherland, told the Capitol Hill newspaper Roll Call, warning that Mr. Rose's rival "starts with a serious handicap, not knowing the issues and not knowing the people".
Before the Supreme Court's landmark campaign finance ruling in January, nonprofit groups like American Future Fund, able to accept unrestricted contributions from individuals and corporations, had been limited to broadcasting "issue ads" and barred from "express advocacy," advertisements that directly urge voters to elect or defeat specific candidates.
The scheme can deliver such information to vehicles several kilometers away from the source, address all the broadcasting issues mentioned earlier, and manage the total overhead.
Walden said he always publicly mentions his FCC licenses when he votes or considers broadcasting issues.
Fox Broadcasting also issued a statement praising the ruling.
Britain's broadcasting regulator issued a warning to RT in November after concluding that it had "failed to preserve due impartiality" in four broadcasts about the conflict in eastern Ukraine.
The decision to cancel came on the same day as Ofcom, the broadcasting regulator, issued a draft ruling saying that the Green party did not have sufficient support to be regarded as a major player in the election campaign, whereas Ukip had a stronger case.
