NARUC Names New Telecommunications Committee Chair

By John Eggerton
( Broadcasting & Cable )
published

The National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners
(NARUC) has named John Burke to chair its telecommunications committee
effective Jan. 17.

Burke, a member of the Vermont Public Service Board, has
been a member of the committee for the past decade. He succeeds Ray Baum as
chair. Baum was named last week to be senior policy adviser to the HouseCommunications Subcommittee headed by Greg Walden (R-Ore.).

The telecommunications committee works with the FCC and
other agencies on issues like universal service reform, broadband deployment,
and consumer protection.

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.