Jonathan D. Blake, a communications lawyer at the forefront of helping shape legislation, licenses and treaty provisions related to satellite communications, cellular phone service and broadband technologies, died May 21 at a hospital in Arlington, Va. He was 85.
Mr. Blake, a past president of the Federal Communications Bar Association, spent his career at Covington & Burling, the firm where he became head of the communications and media practice as well as chairman of thethe most important legal matter of his early career involved representing The Washington Post, a Covington client, before the Federal Communications Commission in the early 1970s.At the time, political allies of President Richard M.