FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                   July 2, 1999             
     
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            Cable Services Bureau Welcomes New Staff

     The Cable Services Bureau of the Federal Communications Commission has welcomed
or will welcome several new people into vacant positions.  

     Bureau Chief Deborah Lathen has stated, "I am pleased to welcome these new staff
members and know they will be an exceptional complement to the talented people we already
have in the Bureau.  They will help us pursue the Bureau's multi-faceted mission, which
includes merger reviews, implementation of the Commission's broadband access policy,
implementation of expected changes to the Satellite Home Viewer Act, creation of the annual
competition report and price surveys, and enforcement of already-existing policies like
program access and ownership rules."

Adonis Hoffman will be appointed as the new Deputy Bureau Chief.  Mr. Hoffman comes
from the International Bureau where he was Senior Counsel for Development Policy and
director of the chairman's development inititative.  Prior to joining the FCC in 1998, Mr.
Hoffman was in private law practice and a Fellow at the World Policy Institute.  Previously he
was director of international law at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.  He also
served as Counsel on the Foreign Affairs Committee in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Prior to that, Mr. Hoffman specialized in legislative, regulatory and corporate matters at the
D.C. office of Hopkins & Sutter.Mr. Hoffman attended Georgetown Law Center and
Princeton University.  He joins Bill Johnson and fills an open slot left by John Logan's
departure in the summer of 1998.  

Quyen Truong, new Associate Bureau Chief for competition, broadband, and Internet
issues, is a Cable Services Bureau veteran.  Among other duties, she will oversee the review
of mergers and acquisitions involving cable assets (including the AT&T-MediaOne merger),
rulemakings relating to cable ownership and access issues, and the development of
Commission policy addressing the convergence of cable, telephone, wireless, and satellite
technologies for broadband access to voice, video, and data services.  Ms. Truong most
recently was with the Common Carrier Bureau, where she was a lead attorney in the review of
the Bell Atlantic-GTE and SBC-Ameritech mergers.  Before coming to the Commission in
1997, she practiced at the law firms of Mayer, Brown & Platt and Howrey & Simon in
Washington, D.C.  She is a graduate of Yale Law School, where she was a fellow in law and
economics, and Yale University, where she majored in Economics and Political Science.

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Michelle Russo, new Director of Media Relations, replaces Morgan Broman, who has
moved up to the Commission's Office of Public Affairs.  Ms. Russo was a vice president at
Carma International, a Washington, D.C., public relations and media consulting firm.  She
has also worked at Warnervision Entertainment and E! Entertainment Television, both in Los
Angeles.  Ms. Russo earned an M.A. from the Annenberg School for Communications at the
Univeristy of Southern California and received a B.A. at the University of California, Los
Angeles.  She will join the Bureau on July 12.

Ruth Dancey, new Assistant Bureau Chief for Administration, has served as Assistant
Secretary of the FCC and as an aide to former FCC Chairman Reed Hundt.  Prior to her
service at the Commission, Ms. Dancey worked in the Washington, D.C. office of Latham &
Watkins, and served on the staffs of numerous elected officials, including U.S. Representatives
Lane Evans and Charles Carney, and U.S. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan.  Ms. Dancey
attended the Warren Business College in her hometown of Warren, Ohio.