BellSouth connection. (Representative Newt Gingrich's daughter employed by phone company) (Brief Article)

Broadcasting & Cable, November, 1994 by McAvoy, Kim

House speaker-in-waiting Newt Gingrich has a family tie to the telephone industry. The Georgia Republican's daughter, Jackie Gingrich Zyla, joined BellSouth as of last Monday (Nov. 21) as a business planning manager with its American Cellular Communications Co. subsidiary based in Atlanta.

Zyla had been with independent Sterling Cellular in Roswell, Ga, American Cellular manages all of BellSouth's cellular properties outside its telephone operating territory. Gingrich is no stranger to Atlanta-based BellSouth, since his district includes suburban Atlanta. His deregulatory agenda should sit well with the telco, which complained that telecommunications legislation pending in this year's Congress was too regulatory. Gingrich has indicated that passage of a...

Premium Content Partnership | HighBeam Research provides an in-depth online archive library of reference works. HighBeam Research
 

BNET TalkbackShare your ideas and expertise on this topic

Please add your comment:

  1. You are currently: a Guest |
  2.  

Basic HTML tags that work in comments are: bold (<b></b>), italic (<i></i>), underline (<u></u>), and hyperlink (<a href></a)

advertisement
advertisement
  • Click Here
  • Click Here
  • Click Here
  • Click Here
advertisement