Among new Wiley Rein partners: Michael Bloomquist, ex-aide to House Commerce Committee, and Megan Brown, in communications practice.

CLEC T3 Communications names Josh Reel, ex-NexGen Communications, president and CEO, replacing Adam Sewall, resigned.

Arris hires Don Toft, ex Cisco, as vice president of sales responsible for its Comcast business … Sheila Kirby, ex Tribune, joins the Radio Ad Bureau as senior vice president of professional development Feb. 1.

Joshua Seidemann, ex-Independent Telephone and Telecom Alliance, becomes National Telecom Co-op Associate director-policy, effective Jan. 3 … Verizon Wireless promotes Christine Berberich to New England region president.

Telemundo promotes Michael Rodriguez to executive vice president of multimedia development and distribution … Openwave names Brian Beattie, Synopsys, to board … Journal Broadcast Group promotes Beverlee Brannigan to director of country programming, new position … Cox Enterprises names Grace Huang, ex-Cox Media Group, senior director of business development.

Joseph Euteneuer, ex-Qwest, to become Sprint Nextel’s chief financial officer after CenturyLink takes over Qwest, replacing Bob Brust, retiring … Telemundo promotions: Lee Flaster to senior vice president-planning, strategy and business operations; Meara Abramson to director-pricing and planning … Lutz Schuler, ex-Telefonica O2 Group, becomes managing director, Unitymedia … Turner Sports Ad Sales promotes Will Blair to senior vice president-sponsorships and sales.

Maria Pallante, senior adviser to Librarian of Congress, named acting register of copyrights, effective Jan. 1 … Copyright Alliance board names Sandra Aistars, ex-Time Warner, executive director … Lisa Miller leaving House Commerce Committee, where she was Republican counselor and communications director, effective Jan. 3 … MPAA hires Karen Thorland, ex-Loeb & Loeb, as vice president and senior content protection counsel effective Jan. 18, replacing Lisa Stone, leaving to raise her young children … Named senior vice presidents for Turner and SI digital ad sales: Ken Shapiro, promoted, and Larry Gelfand, ex-NHL … AOptix Technologies hires Earl Charles, ex-eMeter, as chief financial officer.

Center for Democracy & Technology Vice President James Dempsey to be nominated for seat on Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board … Investor James Lee joins BitTorrent advisory board …Integra Telecom hires Steve Zimba, ex-Cbeyond, as chief marketing officer … Colleen Kenny promoted to vice president, CBS Marketing Communications … CBS promotions to vice president and general manager of CW affiliates: Laura Caruso for WTOG Tampa-St. Petersburg, Fla., and Tom Canedo for WUPA Atlanta.

Telford “Trey” Forgety, ex-Department of Homeland Security, becomes National Emergency Number Association’s director-government affairs … Ruth Pritchard-Kelly, ex-consultant and Swidler Berlin, becomes SES World Skies’ director-regulatory affairs … Richard Bates, Disney, joins Media Institute board … NPR hires Bob Kempf, ex-Boston.com, as vice president of Public Interactive, public-media app-services provider … Linzhen Xie, Peking University, joins UTStarcom board … SeaChange names Peter Feld, Ramius LLC, to board … Nickelodeon promotes Marc Epstein to vice president of new business for integrated marketing … Joseph Flaherty, CBS, named member emeritus, ATSC board.

Franco Bernabè, Telecom Italia, elected chairman of GSMA board … Space Foundation hires Art Ratkewicz, ex-Air Force Space Command, as manager-cyber initiatives, new position … New Clearwire board members, nominated by Sprint Nextel: William Blessing, ex-Embarq; Mufit Cinali, Springwell Capital Partners; and Hossein Eslambolchi, ex-AT&T.