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                                                           March 20, 1998

          JOHN LOGAN NAMED ACTING CHIEF OF CABLE SERVICES BUREAU


     John E. Logan has been named Acting Chief of the Commission's Cable Services
Bureau, effective Monday, March 23, 1998.  Logan succeeds Meredith J. Jones, who is
leaving the Commission.  Since April 1996, Logan has been Deputy Chief of the Cable
Services Bureau, Federal Communications Commission.  Prior to his present position, he
was Deputy Director of the Commission's Office of Legislative Affairs.  Logan came to the
Commission in February 1994 after having served in several senior positions at the
Department of Justice, having commenced his career there in 1980.  At the Department of
Justice, he was the recipient of the John Marshall Award for Outstanding Legal Achievement
and the Attorney General's Management Award.  He received his undergraduate degree from
the University of Pennsylvania and his law degree from Rutgers University. 

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