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Mark S. Fowler

Field	Value
name	Mark S. Fowler
office	Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission
term_start	May 18, 1981
term_end	April 17, 1987
predecessor	Robert E. Lee
successor	Dennis R. Patrick
birth_date
birth_place	Toronto, Ontario, Canada
alma_mater	University of Florida (BA,JD)
profession	Businessman
lawyer
reporter
residence	Naples, Florida
party	Republican
president	Ronald Reagan

lawyer reporter Mark S. Fowler (born October 6, 1941) served as chairman of the Federal Communications Commission from May 18, 1981 to April 17, 1987. Appointed by Ronald Reagan, he led the repeal of the Fairness Doctrine and spearheaded the deregulatory trend in telecommunications policy, and was a proponent of deregulation of television stations, and radio ownership laws.

Fowler was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He received both his Bachelor's degree and Juris Doctor from the University of Florida.

Career after the FCC

Fowler was a communications counsel at the law firm of Latham & Watkins LLP from 1987 until 2000 FCC. He was a VP at Bell South while forming his own international phone company Power Fon, which was bought out by a large phone carrier. From 1990 to 1993 Mr. Fowler also served on the board of directors for Eon Corporation, then doing business as TV Answer. TV Answer was one of the first companies to work with the FCC to explore the use of narrow band radio-wave frequencies for interactive television—where programmers and their viewers could communicate back and forth through a small device attached to a television set. He has been a director of Beasley Broadcast Group, Inc. since February 2000. From 2006–8, his compensation as director was close to $50,000 annually; in 2009 it fell to about $20,000. He served as a director of TalkAmerica, Inc., a publicly held company until the company was sold in December 2006. Mr. Fowler also served as chairman of AssureSat, Inc., a satellite services provider that he co-founded in 1997 until the company was dissolved in December 2004.

References

(2012). "Mark Fowler: At a Glance".
[http://www.fcc.gov/commissioners/commish-list.html FCC Complete List of Commissioners]
Fowler, Mark. (November 1981). Reason interview: Mark S. Fowler. ''Reason''. Retrieved November 1, 2007 from https://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1568/is_1998_Dec/ai_53260535/pg_4
[https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=43527 Ronald Reagan: Nomination of Mark S. Fowler To Be a Member of the Federal Communications Commission, and Designation as Chairman]
Andrews, Edmund L. (August 17, 1994). [https://www.nytimes.com/1994/08/17/business/airwave-entrepreneurs-still-feeling-their-way.html?pagewanted=3&src=pm Airwave Entrepreneurs Still Feeling Their Way]. ''The New York Times''

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