David Carson, ex-U.S. Copyright Office, joins International Federation of the Phonographic Industry as head of global legal policy, effective Sept. 24 … Andrew Kubitz, ex-CBS-TV, becomes ABC Entertainment Group executive vice president-program planning & scheduling … Consumers Union Policy Counsel Parul Desai leaving group effective Aug. 31 to become attorney-adviser in FCC Media Bureau Audio Division … Dana Frix, whose practice includes FCC and FTC, named managing partner of the Washington office of Chadbourne & Parke … Lobbyist Registrations: Application Developers Alliance, SPQR Strategies, effective Aug. 1.
Discovery Communications names Todd Davis, ex-Ernst & Young, executive vice president-global tax, effective Sept. 1 … Johnny Chiu, ex-Covington & Burling, joins Morrison & Foerster as partner in intellectual property practice … Media Storm promotes Jill Rosenbaum to managing director of its new Los Angeles office … Entropic Communications names Vahid Manian, ex-Global Semiconductor Alliance, senior vice president-global operations … Mitel names Martyn Etherington, ex-IBM, chief marketing officer.
Fisher Communications promotes David Praga to vice president; he remains general manager of Fisher’s KIMA-TV/KEPR-TV/KUNW-TV/CW9, Yakima/Tri-Cities, Wash., and KLEW-TV, Lewiston, Idaho … Lobbyist Registrations: FairSearch.org, Mercury/Clark & Weinstock, effective July 16.
News Corp. Chief Digital Officer Jonathan Miller to leave at end of September as company moves toward proposed separation into two … Media General promotes to vice president: Marilyn Hammond for broadcast sales and marketing, and Andrew Lobred, digital media … Fisher Communications promotes Janene Drafs to vice president, general manager-Seattle stations, effective Sept. 1, replacing Senior Vice President and General Manager Jim Clayton, retiring, who will be senior adviser to company focused on special projects.
American Enterprise Institute names Jeffrey Eisenach, Navigant Economics, visiting scholar to work on communications and information technology policy … Media General CEO and President Marshall Morton retiring at year’s end, Vice President George Mahoney will succeed him effective Jan. 1; in interim adds chief operating officer title … NBCUniversal’s Bravo Media promotes Aimee Viles to senior vice president-emerging media.
Level 3 Communications began content delivery network services in Latin America. That gives businesses, government and multimedia content providers a fast and reliable way to deliver their content in the region, the provider of CDN and Internet backbone services said Tuesday. “All indicators suggest the Latin American CDN market is poised for high growth over the next five-year period,” Frost & Sullivan analyst Dan Rayburn said in a news release issued by Level 3. “Applications such as over-the-top video and mobile video are still in the early stage of adoption, which are likely to substantially increase in usage as broadband infrastructure across the continent improves and the transactional mechanisms to purchase content-based services are more widely implemented” (http://xrl.us/bnmome).
Tango Networks hires Brenda Boehm, ex-Cisco, as president and CEO; Craig Freeman, ex-Genband, as vice president of sales-Americas … Cox Communications promotes Vince Groff to general manager-Cox Home Security … iNovo Broadband hires Michael Harney, ex-Cisco, as CEO … Bounce TV hires Billy Hall, ex-Turner Entertainment Networks, as executive vice president-programming and production, new position … Multimedia over Coax Alliance promotes Rob Gelphman to vice president, marketing and member relations, new post … Outdoor Channel appoints Lorey Zlotnick, ex-News Corp’s Fuel TV, senior vice president-marketing … Lobbyist Registrations: Motorola Solutions, Blank Rome Government Relations, effective July 1 … LightSquared promotes Doug Smith to chairman and CEO … Golf Channel hires David Schaefer, ex-Discovery Communications, as vice president-communications, new position.
Fox Broadcasting promotes Kevin Reilly to chairman-entertainment … Pacifica Foundation names Chairman Summer Reese interim executive director, replacing Arlene Englehardt while search for new head occurs … Univision News hires Keith Summa, ex-CBS News, as vice president-news partnerships.
Harris Corp. adds Peter Chiarelli, ex-U.S. Army, to board … Syska Hennessy Group hires Clint Moreno, ex-Environmental Systems Design, for information and communication technology practice.
Univision Communications hires Keith Turner, ex-NFL, as president-advertising sales and marketing, replacing David Lawenda … PlumGrid hires Lele Nardin, ex-Ericsson Silicon Valley, as vice president-engineering … Nexstar Broadcasting hires Leo Henning, ex-Barrington Broadcasting Group, as vice president-general manager of KOZL-TV Springfield, Mo., and overseeing Mission Broadcasting’s KOLR-TV … Lobbyist Registrations: LightSquared, DLA Piper, effective July 9 … Facebook, Patton Boggs, effective July 1 … Radio Music License Committee, Gibson Group, effective Aug. 1 … Cavalier Wireless, Fritts Group, effective Aug. 7.