James R. Hobson
Mr. Hobson has 28 years' experience in cable television and other forms of communications as an FCC official, corporation lawyer and private legal practitioner. At the FCC from 1972-78, his posts included Special Assistant to the Chairman (1974) and Chief, Cable Television Bureau, 1976-78. As Washington Counsel for GTE, 1978-91, Mr. Hobson's assignments included the early stages of the video dialtone docket and the grant to GTE California of the first telco-cable urban crossownership waiver in Cerritos. Mr. Hobson has been in private practice for nine years and has worked on video and wireless communications matters for a number of clients. He was a member of the statutory panel of arbitrators which in 1992 recommended changes in the 1993-94 fees paid for satellite carrier delivery of superstation and network TV signals to backyard dish receivers. Mr. Hobson holds undergraduate and graduate degrees from Cornell and Georgetown Universities, and his law degree is from the University of San Francisco. He is admitted to practice in California as well as the District of Columbia. Besides having served on the American Arbitration Association's National Panel, he is a trained mediator. Jim is the co-author of "Preemption of Local Regulation of Radio Antennas," Federal Communications Law Journal, Vol. 46, No. 3 (June 1994), and the Co-Editor of The Communications Act: A Legislative History of the Major Amendments, 1934-1996 (Pike & Fischer, 1999). He has spoken at numerous NATOA meetings including the 1993-1998 national conventions; workshops on wireless services zoning and land use in February and March, 1997; the Baltimore Regional Seminars in May 1997 and March 1998; and the Washington, D.C. Legal Seminars in 1999 and 2000.
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