Attorney Bios

Peter Tannenwald

703-812-0404
tannenwald@fhhlaw.com

Peter Tannenwald has joined Fletcher, Heald & Hildreth, PLC, as a Member, after a 40-year career which included one of Washington's 10 largest law firms, where he was a partner, and more recently as a named principal of Irwin, Campbell & Tannenwald, P.C. In addition to a broad range of radio and television broadcast station groups and individual station owners and common carrier and wireless clients in both regulatory and transactional matters, he represents inventors of new technologies and has helped implement several new technologies, including wireless auditory assistance devices for hearing impaired persons, the use of AM broadcast stations for power utility load management, visual captions on television broadcasts and the Interactive Video and Data Service. He represented a publicly traded international satellite carrier from its inception to merger with one of the nation's five largest interexchange carriers, handled the initial licensing for the nation's public television satellite distribution system, has represented major universities for broadcast, satellite, ITFS/EBS and telephone matters, and helped establish a local telephone service competitor a Bell Operation Company. He represents state and municipal governments in wireless and cable television franchising matters, serves as counsel to the Community Broadcasters Association, the trade association of Class A and Low Power television stations, and is currently active in ensuring compatibility of wireless handsets with hearing aids. A graduate of Brown University and Harvard Law School, Mr. Tannenwald has served as an elected officer of the Federal Communications Bar Association.