The FCC has confirmed that Media Bureau Chief Ken Ferree also intends to leave the agency in March. Chairman Michael Powell announced last week he intends to leave the agency that month. Powell appointed Ferree as Media Bureau Chief in 2001; he had been head of the Cable Bureau. Just like Powell, Ferree gave no hin

FCC Chairman Michael Powell announced that FCC General Counsel John Rogovin and Barbara J. Douglas, director of the Office of Workplace Diversity, are leaving the commission. Rogovin is moving on to become a partner at Wilmer, Cutler, Pickering, Hale and Dorr. He has served as general counsel since February 2003. Dou

Associate bureau chief Charles Mathias will become acting legal advisor to the chairman on an interim basis

David Krone, executive vice president for the National Cable & Telecommunications Association will be leaving the post effective Oct. 1.

Former DTV Czar joins cable lobby

With the close of the FCC broadcast incentive auction last week, FCC Incentive Auction Task Force chairman Gary Epstein will be exiting at the end of the month, Epstein confirmed to B&C.

Robert McDowell was confirmed as the fifth FCC commissioner by the Senate Friday before Memorial Day weekend, and sworn in by FCC Chairman Kevin Martin. His confirmation, hung up in the Senate for several weeks, now gives Martin his first Republican majority since he was appointed chairman more than a year ago. "He

David Solomon will join communications law firm Wilkinson Barker Knauer as a partner in June. In March, we reported the FCC's Enforcement Bureau chief planned to leave the agency next month. Solomon was appointed the first head of the Enforcement Bureau when it was created in 1999. He has been at the agency 18 years.