Ross, Susan Schambacher

Joel Rosenbloom has more than four decades of experience in communications matters, having served early in his career at the Federal Communications Commission as an appellate counsel (1957-1961), as Legal Assistant to Chairman Minow (1961-1963) and as Special Assistant to Chairman Henry (1963-1965), after which he joined the firm. He retired from active practice in 2004.

Practice

Mr. Rosenbloom has handled the FCC aspects of major broadcast transactions and has participated in a broad range of other proceedings, including litigation concerning the FCC’s television network rules and broadcast takeover policies.

Professional Activities

Mr. Rosenbloom is a member (emeritus) of the Board of Visitors and a Fellow of the Law Alumni Academy of the Indiana University School of Law at Bloomington, Indiana. Mr. Rosenbloom’s publications include: “On the Sixtieth Anniversary of the Communications Act,” Federal Communications Law Journal (December 1994) and “The ‘Vast Wasteland’ in Retrospect,” Federal Communications Law Journal (May 2003). He was a co-editor of the FCC Golden Jubilee Commission’s Legislative History of Amendments to the Communications Act of 1934 and the author of its article on cable television.