Advance/Newhouse chmn/CEO Bob Miron and Landmark pres/COO Decker Anstrom will chair an NCTA committee to find a successor for pres/CEO Robert Sachs. Other committee members: A&E’s Nick Davatzes, GCI Cable pres Ron Duncan, Cox’s Jim Robbins, Comcast’s Brian Roberts, Insight’s Michael Willner and Time Warner Cable’s Glenn Britt. The committee’s 1st job will be to hire an exec search firm (which likely won’t do much until after Election Day). Sachs will remain until a new chief is named.

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