Just two days after Barack Obama won the presidential elections, sources have told Multichannel News that the president-elect is expected to name D.C. lawyer Henry Rivera to head a transition team focused on the FCC.
Rivera, a Democrat, is a partner at communications law firm Wiley, Rein and served at the FCC from 1981 to 1985. His wife, Bernadette McGuire-Rivera, is one of the officials running the $1.5 billion digital TV converter box coupon program.