CONTRIBUTOR:

Ernest Sanchez

AFFILIATION:

TITLE:

President

DEPARTMENT:

INSTITUTION:

The Sanchez Law Firm P.C.

BIOGRAPHY:

"Ernest T. Sanchez, is the founder of the Sanchez Law Firm P.C. in Washington, DC. and has been practicing media and entertainment law for more than forty (40) years. Before starting his own firm, Mr. Sanchez chaired the media practice group of the world’s largest law firm, Baker & McKenzie. Mr. Sanchez has served as outside entertainment and copyright counsel for many media organizations, including the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), the Discovery Channel, The Smithsonian Channel, the Travel Channel and First Nations Experience (FNX). Mr. Sanchez has written and lectured extensively on communications and media law subjects. Mr. Sanchez also Chaired for five years the Federal Communications Law Journal, the leading scholarly journal in the U.S. on telecommunications subjects. Early in his career, Mr. Sanchez served for seven years as the founding General Counsel of National Public Radio (NPR) and was on the initial legal staff of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB). Mr. Sanchez received his Juris Doctor degree from the Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, DC. in 1973. Before becoming a lawyer, Mr. Sanchez was a working broadcaster and journalist for Radio Denmark Shortwave in Copenhagen, Denmark and the Voice of America in Washington, DC. "