October 14, 1998
  KAREN KORNBLUH LEAVES FCC TO BECOME  DEPUTY CHIEF OF STAFF 
                   AT DEPARTMENT OF TREASURY
     
     Karen Kornbluh, Deputy Chief of the Commission's Mass Media Bureau, is leaving the
FCC to serve as Deputy Chief of Staff at the U.S. Department of Treasury.

     Kornbluh has been at the FCC since 1994.  In that time she held a series of high-level
jobs.  Most recently she served as Deputy Chief of the Mass Media Bureau for Technology
Policy where she was involved in the  implementation of digital television policy and led the
Commission Task Force on Set-Top Boxes.

     She served previously as the Director of the Office of Legislative and
Intergovernmental Affairs.  She was Assistant Chief of the International Bureau during the
successful completion of the negotiations on the World Trade Organization's Agreement on
Basic Telecommunications.   Her first position at the FCC was as a Senior Policy Advisory
where she was involved in successful Commission efforts to create the "E-Rate" program to
connect classrooms to the Internet and to negotiate a voluntary industry that broadcasters
would air three hours of children's educational television programming each week.

     "Whether it was negotiating the WTO Agreement on Basic Telecommunications or
spearheading our proceeding on cable set-top boxes, Karen always provided invaluable
strategic insight," commented FCC Chairman William Kennard.  "Her ability to analyze the
business implications of a regulatory program and then think through the politics helped me
and the Commission again and again throughout her time at the FCC.  She has a unique talent
for understanding how to get things done in Washington."

     Prior to joining the FCC, Kornbluh was economic advisor to U.S. Senator John Kerry
(D-MA) and was an economist at Alan Greenspan's economic forecasting firm, Townsend-
Greenspan & Co.

     She received a master's degree from Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of
Government and a B.A. from Bryn Mawr College in Economics and English.

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