NEWS
        April 9, 1997    
   
             
                           JOHN STERN NAMED A       SSISTANT BUREAU CHIEF
OF THE INTERNATION             AL BUREAU
                  
     The FCC announced today that John P. Stern has been promoted to Assistant Chief of
the International Bureau.
 
     Stern joined the Commission in January 1995 as a litigator in the Office of General
Counsel.  In February of 1996, Stern joined the International Bureau to work on satellite
issues.  Stern has served as Senior Legal Advisor to the Bureau Chief since May 1996.    
   
     Stern earned a B.A. from Harvard College in 1983 and a J.D. from Yale Law
School in 1988.  He was a Coro Fellow in Public Affairs in 1984-85.  He clerked for
the Honorable Morris E. Lasker, in the Southern District of New York, between
1988-90.  Stern worked for four years in the Affirmative Litigation Division of the
New York City Law Department before joining the FCC.

     Stern lives in Washington, D.C. with his wife, Anne Salladin, an attorney at the
Treasury Department's Office of General Counsel.
   
     -FCC-