NEWS                                              July 8, 1996


COMMISSIONER NESS ANNOUNCES APPOINTMENT 
      OF ANITA WALLGREN AS LEGAL ADVISOR

     Commissioner Susan Ness today announced that Anita L. Wallgren has joined her
staff as Legal Advisor.  Ms. Wallgren will bear primary responsibility for assisting
Commissioner Ness on mass media and cable television issues but will also work on selected
issues in other areas as well.

     Ms. Wallgren served recently as Vice President, Legal and Business Affairs, for Sony
Worldwide Networks, a radio syndication and Website provider based in New York.  Prior
to that she was Vice President and Associate General Counsel for Citicasters (formerly Great
American Communications) in Cincinnati, which owned radio and television stations and
entertainment companies.  During the 1980s Ms. Wallgren was the principal mass media and
intellectual property advisor to the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and
Information at the National Telecommunications and Information Administration.  

     Early in her career she was manager of government relations for Taft Broadcasting,
Cincinnati.  Ms. Wallgren interned for Commissioner Anne P. Jones at the FCC while she
was in law school and before that was traffic and continuity director of a radio station in her
hometown of Grand Rapids, Michigan.

     Ms. Wallgren attended Kalamazoo College and earned her undergraduate and Juris
Doctor degrees from the University of Michigan.

     "Anita brings a wealth of business and policymaking experience," said Commissioner
Ness.  "I know her expertise and judgment will help me, and the Commission as a whole, in
working through the many complex issues before us."

     Once Ms. Wallgren arrives Legal Advisor David Siddall will concentrate primarily on
wireless, international, and other spectrum issues.  Senior Legal Advisor Jim Casserly will
remain responsible for common carrier issues.

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