NEWS                                                     December 6, 1995

        DAVID E. HOROWITZ APPOINTED DEPUTY CHIEF OF THE PRIVATE 
          WIRELESS DIVISION, WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATIONS BUREAU

     David E. Horowitz has been appointed Deputy Chief (Legal) of the Private Wireless
Division of the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau, effective November 12, 1995.

     Mr. Horowitz joined the Commission in August 1988 as a staff attorney with the
Legal Branch of the Policy and Rules Division of the Mass Media Bureau.  Two years later,
he was appointed Chief of that Branch, a position he has held for the past five years.  During
his tenure with the Mass Media Bureau, Mr. Horowitz played a major role in shaping
general policy and developing the Commission's specific mass media rulemaking initiatives. 
Recent examples include reviews of the prime time access rule (PTAR), the financial interest
and syndication (fin/syn) rules, children's television regulation, and the rules governing the
relationship between the broadcast networks and their affiliates.

     Before joining the Commission, Mr. Horowitz worked for four years as an associate
with the Washington, D.C., law firm of Leventhal, Senter & Lerman, and for one year as an
associate with the law firm of Otterbourg, Steindler, Houston & Rosen, in New York.  Mr.
Horowitz began his professional legal career serving as judicial law clerk for the Honorable
Philip Nichols, Jr., Circuit Judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal
Circuit, in Washington, D.C.

     Mr. Horowitz received B.A. and M.A. degrees in English from the University of
Chicago, and a J.D. degree from the University of Michigan Law School.

     Raised in Baltimore, MD, Mr. Horowitz currently resides in Silver Spring, MD, with
his wife, Nancy, and their son, Jacob.

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