NEWS                                                             

                        July 2, 1996

                      CABLE SERVICES BUREAU ANNOUNCES
                           STAFF REORGANIZATION

       Following the promotion of Mary Ellen Burns to Deputy
Chief of the Mass Media
Bureau, Meredith J. Jones, Chief of the Cable Services Bureau,
announces the following
personnel changes at the Cable Services Bureau:
 
       Elizabeth (Libby) Beaty has been named Chief of the
Financial Analysis and
       Compliance Division.  Beaty has been with the Bureau since
its inception in October
       of 1993.  She is moving from her position as Assistant
Bureau Chief for the Office of
       Government and Public Outreach.  Beaty has been with the
Commission since 1991
       and before coming to the Bureau served as a Staff Attorney
in the Policy and Rules
       Division of the Mass Media Bureau.

       Gary Laden has been named Chief of the Consumer Protection
and Competition
       Division.  Laden has been with the Commission and the
Bureau since January of 1995
       and has served as Chief of the Policy and Rules Division
during that time.  Formerly
       Laden served in a number of positions at the Federal Trade
Commission.  Since 1984
       he was Assistant Director of the Division of Marketing
Practices at the FTC's Bureau
       of Consumer Protection.

       JoAnn Lucanik has been named Chief of the Policy and Rules
Division.  Lucanik
       joined the Commission in November of 1993 as a Staff
Attorney in the Bureau's
       Policy and Rules Division.  In August 1994 she moved to
the Consumer Protection
       Division to supervise the review of the cost of service
proceedings.  Lucanik was
       named Acting Chief of the newly created Financial Analysis
and Compliance Division
       in December of 1994 and was officially designated Chief of
that Division in April of
       1995.  Prior to her career at the Commission, Lucanik
served as an Assistant Staff
       Attorney at the Maryland Public Service Commission for six
years.

       Barbara Esbin has joined the Bureau as Associate Bureau
Chief.  Esbin has been
       serving as Special Counsel for Competition in the
Commercial Wireless Division of
       the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau and has been with
the Commission since
       January of 1991.  Formerly she served as a Senior Policy
Advisor in the Wireless
       Telecommunications Bureau's Policy Division.  Prior to
joining the Commission,
       Esbin spent five years in private practice specializing in
energy law, representing
       publicly-owned power systems and municipalities in a
variety of wholesale rate and
       service proceedings before state and federal courts and
federal regulatory agencies.

       Marjorie Greene has joined the Bureau as Associate Bureau
Chief.  Greene has been
       with the Commission since 1975 and served for the past
five years as a member of its
       Review Board.  Prior to that she served as Associate
General Counsel and Deputy
       General Counsel.  Greene has also served as Deputy Chief
Scientist for Policy in the
       Office of Science and Technology.  She began her career at
the Commission as a
       Legal Assistant in the Office of former Commissioner
Robert E. Lee.  Prior to that
       Greene worked for several years in private communications
law practice, specializing
       in cable television.

       Margo Domon has been named Assistant Bureau Chief, Office
of Government and
       Public Outreach.  Domon has been serving as Deputy Chief
of the Policy and Rules
       Division since September of 1994.  Formerly she was Deputy
General Counsel for
       Telecommunications at the District of Columbia Public
Service Commission.

       Michael Perko has been named Director, Government
Outreach, Office of
       Government and Public Outreach.  Perko has been with the
Commission and the
       Bureau since February of 1995.  Formerly he served for 12
years in the U.S.
       Congress as Senior Policy Analyst to the House
Subcommittee on
       Telecommunications, Consumer Protection, and Finance and
as Legislative Director
       for a member of the U.S. Senate.

       Morgan Broman has been named Director, Media Relations,
Office of Government
       and Public Outreach.  Broman has been with the Commission
and the Bureau since
       August of 1994.  He worked in the U.S. Congress for 11
years, serving in a number
       of positions, including Chief of Staff for former
Congressman Edward P. Boland and
       later as Chief of Staff for Congressman Richard E. Neal.

       "The Commission is fortunate to have such a solid pool of
highly qualified people to
call upon to institute the 1996 Act." said Bureau Chief Meredith
J. Jones.

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