FCC's Martin Names Media Advisor

By John Eggerton
( Broadcasting & Cable )
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FCC Chairman Kevin Martin has named Michelle Carey legal advisor for media issues. Carey will  replace Heather Dixon, who Martin said would have a new role at the FCC.

Dixon had been an advisor in the media bureau before assuming the media legal advisor post in 2005 .

Carey had been legal advisor on wireline issues. Before that, she was chief of the Competition Policy division for  five years.

John Eggerton
John Eggerton

Contributing editor John Eggerton has been an editor and/or writer on media regulation, legislation and policy for over four decades, including covering the FCC, FTC, Congress, the major media trade associations, and the federal courts. In addition to Multichannel News and Broadcasting + Cable, his work has appeared in Radio World, TV Technology, TV Fax, This Week in Consumer Electronics, Variety and the Encyclopedia Britannica.