Nomination of Neal B. Freeman To Be a Member of the Board of Directors of the Communications Satellite Corporation

The President today announced his intention to nominate Neal B. Freeman to be a member of the Board of Directors of the Communications Satellite Corporation until the date of the annual meeting of the Corporation in 1988. This is a reappointment.

Since 1976 Mr. Freeman has been president of Jefferson Communications, Inc., a radio-television production and media consulting firm in Reston, VA. During this time, he has also served as consulting editor, Washington Post Writers Group, 1977-1980; contributing editor, the Advocates, 1977-1979; Washington editor, National Review, 1978-1981; and senior consultant, ACTION/Peace Corps, 1981. Prior to founding Jefferson in 1976, Mr. Freeman was for 9 years an executive with the Hearst Corp. in New York. In 1967 he joined the King Features division of Hearst as editor in charge of newspaper relations, becoming executive editor in 1968 and director of King Features Television Productions, Inc., in 1970. From 1972 to 1976, he was vice president and editor of the Hearst division and responsible for division performance.

Mr. Freeman graduated from Yale College (B.A., 1962). He was born July 5, 1940, in New York, NY. He is married, has three children, and currently resides in Vienna, VA.