NEWS                                                      January 6, 1997
                                    
       GRETCHEN RUBIN NAMED SPECIAL ADVISOR IN MASS MEDIA BUREAU; 
         WILL CO-TEACH COURSE ON TELEVISION AT YALE UNIVERSITY 
                       WITH FORMER CHAIRMAN HUNDT

     Gretchen Rubin has been named Special Advisor in the Mass Media Bureau.  She will
advise Chairman Kennard and the Commission on digital television, opportunities in the
media, and other issues related to the mass media, on a part-time basis.

     Also, beginning in January, Rubin and former FCC Chairman Reed E. Hundt will
co-teach a course at the Yale Law School and the Yale School of Management.  The course,
"Television," will examine the regulatory and legal framework of broadcast, cable, DBS, and
other video programming providers, and the way in which that framework drives the
business of television.

     Under former Chairman Hundt, Rubin served as Counsel to the Chairman, legal
advisor for mass media and cable.  Before that, she was Special Advisor to the Mass Media
Bureau Chief.

     Before coming to the Commission, Rubin was a law clerk for Associate Justice
Sandra Day O'Connor, United States Supreme Court, and Judge Pierre N. Leval, United
States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.  She attended Yale Law School, where she
served as Editor-in-Chief  to the Yale Law Journal, and Yale College.  

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