MMTC Names Deborah Taylor Tate to Board of Directors

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The Minority Media & Telecommunications Council has named former Republican FCC Commissioner Deborah Taylor Tate to its board of directors.

The board is chaired by a former Democratic FCC Commissioner, Henry Rivera.

MMTC described Tate as a determined advocate for media and telecom ownership by women and minorities.

She also helped put together an FCC field hearing in New York last July on barriers to communications financing that put minorities together with government officials and, more importantly, lenders.

Also named to the board was Maurita Cooley, a telecommunications attorney at Davis Wright Tremaine.

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.