May 23, 1994

                  RICHARD K. WELCH NAMED LEGAL ADVISOR TO
                    FCC COMMISSIONER RACHELLE B. CHONG

     Richard K. Welch has been named Legal Advisor to FCC
Commissioner Rachelle B. Chong.

     For the past three years, Welch has served as a staff
attorney in the Administrative Law Division of the FCC's Office
of General Counsel.  In this capacity, he reviewed Commission
agenda items for legal sufficiency and advised operating bureaus
and FCC Commissioners' offices on legal issues.  He has worked on
a broad range of common carrier issues, as well as cable rate
regulation matters.  From 1988 to 1991, he served as a staff
attorney in the Accounting and Audits Division of the FCC's
Common Carrier Bureau.  There, he dealt with issues such as the
enforcement of the Commission's accounting safeguards, rate of
return, jurisdictional separations, cost allocations,
depreciation, and cable television pole attachment complaints.

     He received his J.D. magna cum laude in 1988 from Washington
and Lee University School of Law in Lexington, Virginia.  He
received his B.S. in Business Administration in 1980 from the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

     He, his wife and two children reside in Falls Church, VA.


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