NTIA Names Anna Gomez Deputy Assistant Secretary for Communications, Information
Key priority is to help with DTV transition
By John Eggerton -- Broadcasting & Cable, 2/3/2009 11:15:00 AM MT
The National Telecommunications & Information Administration (NTIA) has named Anna Gomez as deputy assistant secretary for communications and information.
In that role, one of her key priorities will be to help with the DTV transition. NTIA is currently overseeing the DTV-to-analog converter box coupon program, which has run into an accounting problem that has slowed the distribution of those coupons to a trickle.
The converter's allow analog-only TV sets to continue to receive a TV signal after the transition to digital.
“With significant challenges ahead of us as the country prepares to make the switch to digital TV, it’s essential that we have leadership at NTIA that puts the American consumers first,” said NTIA Associate Administrator Bernadette McGuire-Rivera."
Gomez was previously a lobbyist for Sprint-Nextel on non-spectrum issues, and before that worked at the FCC in various posts, including the Common Carrier Bureau, Network Services Division, and the International Bureau. She was also a legal adviser to former chairman William Kennard.
NTIA is part of the Commerce Department, which has just gotten a new presumptive secretary in New Hampshire Senator Judd Gregg.
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