March 1, 1999
                                                               
   ELIZABETH ROSE, DIRECTOR OF FCC OFFICE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS, 
                      TO LEAVE COMMISSION;
               JOY HOWELL TO BECOME OPA DIRECTOR
                                
     Elizabeth Rose, Director of the FCC's Office of Public Affairs, is leaving the
Commission to become a senior vice president of M&R Strategic Services, a Washington, DC,
public relations firm.

     Rose has been with the FCC since October 1997 and has served as principal
spokesperson for Chairman William Kennard.

     Kennard said, "Liz has been an enormous asset to the FCC and to me during my
Chairmanship.  I greatly value her judgment and appreciate the effective work she did here.  I
wish her every success at M&R."

     Before coming to the FCC, Rose was in public affairs at the Department of Labor, 
Director for Media Relations at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and press secretary to
U.S. Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-WV). 

     The new FCC OPA Director will be Joy Howell, currently Communications Director
for Senator Robert Torricelli (D- NJ).  Howell has 20 years of public policy communications
experience.  She started her own public affairs firm in Washington, DC, at the age of 29 and
relocated the firm to the West Coast in the early 1990s.  She earned an MBA while in
California and later an MPA from Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of 
Government.

     "Joy was extremely effective both in designing communications strategy and message
and in creating opportunities to advance my policy initiatives.  I enjoyed her professional and
intellectual depth and I will miss working with her," Torricelli said. 

     "Working with Bob Torricelli has been an exciting and rewarding experience that will
be impossible to duplicate.  While I'm reluctant to leave, I'm looking forward to working with
the top-notch team Bill Kennard has assembled at the FCC and addressing cutting-edge
business and policy issues, " Howell said.

                                                              - FCC -
     Contacts: Joy Howell at (202) 224-3423 and Maureen Peratino at (202) 418-0500.