Communications Personals
FTC moves up Patty McDermott to Anticompetitive Practices Division deputy assistant director ... Cox Media Group hires Daniel York, from AT&T, as president-CEO, succeeding interim CEO Steve Pruett, who remains executive chairman (see this section, May 8) ... Magic Leap CEO Rony Abovitz to step down, staying through transition ... Producer Tara Duncan joins Disney's Freeform as president; ABC Owned Television Stations elevates Rob Elmore to president-general manager, WTVD Durham, North Carolina ... Meredith hires Deborah Collura, ex-Tegna, for vice president-general manager, WGCL-TV and WPCH-TV, both in Atlanta, and promotes Corey Hanson to vice president-general manager, WALA-TV Mobile, Alabama.
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FCC announces appointees to the Broadband Deployment Advisory Committee Disaster Response Working Group, says Next Century Cities; NCC's Francella Ochillo added to WG, as is Denise Linn Riedl, the South Bend, Indiana, chief innovation officer; commission doesn't comment on any further appointments and indicates it confirms the ones NCC detailed; NCC says it's unaware of identities of any other new members ... Kulicke and Soffa appoints David Richardson, also Lattice Semiconductor chairman, to board.