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January 25, 2001 David Fiske at (202) 418-0513

**CHAIRMAN POWELL NAMES MARSHA MACBRIDE AS FCC CHIEF OF STAFF;**

**ALSO ANNOUNCES TRANSITION AND PERSONAL STAFF**

Washington, DC \-- Michael K. Powell, Chairman of the Federal
Communications Commission, today announced that he will appoint Marsha
J. MacBride as the agency\'s Chief of Staff.

He also announced a core FCC transition team and his personal staff.

Ms. MacBride will return to the Commission after having recently served
as a Vice President in the Washington, D.C., office of The Walt Disney
Company. Nearly a ten-year FCC veteran, Ms. MacBride previously held the
positions of Legal Advisor to then-Commissioner Powell for mass media
and cable television matters and Executive Director of the FCC\'s Task
Force on Year 2000 Conversion.

\"I am incredibly pleased that Marsha has agreed to come back to public
service at the Commission,\" Chairman Powell remarked. \"Her prior
experience with me as a Legal Advisor and, most importantly, as
Executive Director of the FCC\'s Year 2000 Task Force, showed what a
valuable asset Marsha is to this agency. As Chief of Staff, she will be
exercising her wonderful management and people skills that were so
instrumental in our successful Y2K effort.\"

Ms. MacBride joined the Commission in 1991 as an attorney in the
Political Programming Branch of the Mass Media Bureau\'s Enforcement
Division, and has subsequently served as an Acting Deputy Chief of the
Cable Services Bureau, Senior Legal Advisor to the Chief, Mass Media
Bureau, and Associate Chief in the Office of Engineering and Technology.
From December 1996 to November 1997, Ms. MacBride was Legal Advisor to
Commissioner James H. Quello.

Ms. MacBride is a 1981 graduate of Douglass College, Rutgers University,
where she received, with *magna cum laude* distinction, a B.A. degree.
In 1985, she earned her law degree from the George Washington University
School of Law in Washington, D.C.

In order to facilitate a smooth transition, Chairman Powell also has
designated a core transition team of FCC officials that will be
responsible, in the interim, for the agency\'s legal, media relations
and legislative and inter-governmental functions. The transition team
will coordinate its collective activities and efforts with the new Chief
of Staff and the Chairman\'s personal staff.

Jane E. Mago, a Deputy Bureau Chief of the FCC\'s Enforcement Bureau,
will be principally responsible for the interim management of the
agency\'s legal functions, overseeing the Office of General Counsel.

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David H. Fiske, a Deputy Director of the FCC\'s Office of Media
Relations, will be principally responsible for the interim management of
the agency\'s media relations functions, overseeing the Office of Media
Relations.

Paul A. Jackson, Special Assistant to the Chairman, will be principally
responsible for the interim management of the agency\'s legislative and
inter-governmental functions, overseeing the FCC\'s Office of
Legislative and Inter-governmental Affairs.

The Chairman also announced that his current personal staff, including
Mr. Jackson, will move to the Chairman\'s Office.

Peter A. Tenhula will serve as Senior Legal Advisor to the Chairman, and
is responsible for wireless and international issues.

Kyle D. Dixon and Susan M. Eid will also continue to serve Chairman
Powell as Legal Advisors. Mr. Dixon is principally responsible for
common carrier issues as well as selected broadband and advanced
telecommunications issues. Ms. Eid is principally responsible for mass
media and cable television issues.

Antonia (\"Toni\") McGowan will continue as the Chairman\'s Confidential
Assistant and Dorothy Clingman will move to the Chairman\'s office as
Senior Staff Assistant.

Biographies of these personal staff members are available on Chairman
Powell\'s Internet site via the World Wide Web at
\<http://www.fcc.gov/commissioners/powell\>.

Additional staff personnel appointed to the Chairman\'s Office include:
Thomasine (\"Tommi\") Greely, Administrative Officer; Betty Freeman,
Special Assistant to the Senior Legal Advisor; and Kim Anderson-Collins,
Staff Assistant.

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