April 15, 1998

         MARSHA J. MACBRIDE NAMED DEPUTY CHIEF (ACTING)
                      CABLE SERVICES BUREAU

     Marsha J. MacBride has been named Acting Deputy Chief  to the Cable Services
Bureau. 
     
      She has served since November 1997 as the Senior Legal Advisor to the Mass Media
Bureau, where she oversaw the Commission's review of the industry's voluntary rating system
and implementation of V-chip regulations.  

     From December 1996 to November 1997 MacBride was Legal Advisor to
Commissioner James H. Quello for matters relating to broadcast and cable television,
including the digital television, closed-captioning and inside wiring proceedings.   She has also
served as Special Assistant to the Chief of the Mass Media Bureau.  She joined the
Commission in 1991 as an attorney in the Political Programming Branch of the Mass Media
Bureau's Enforcement Division.  

     Prior to joining the Commission, MacBride was associated with the law firm of Bishop,
Cook, Purcell and Reynolds, where she specialized in the areas of cable television and
broadcast transactions and regulation.  She graduated magna cum laude from Douglass
College, Rutgers University, in 1981, and received her Juris Doctor from the National Law
Center, George Washington University, in 1985.

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