Arbitron hires Debra Delman, ex-NPR, as executive vice president-finance and chief financial officer, effective Aug. 28, succeeding interim CFO Sean Creamer … NPR hires Monique Hanson, YMCA of the USA, as head fundraiser and chief development officer, effective in early October … News Corp.’s Fox Networks Group President and Chief Operating Officer David Haslingden stepping down at end of year … NAB Education Foundation new board members: Jeff Simpson, Bonneville International; Deborah Thomas, Cox Media Group; Andrea Berry, Fox Networks; and Bob Okun, O Team … IFC promotes Marie Moore to senior vice president-public relations.
Public Knowledge hires Christopher Lewis, ex-FCC Office of Legislative Affairs, as vice president-government affairs, replacing Ernesto Falcon, who remains as special adviser; Bartees Cox, ex-Free Press, named communications associate … CEA promotes Glenda MacMullin to chief operating officer … Petrizzo Bond hires Adam Rak, ex-TechAmerica, as senior vice president in Silicon Valley office, and lobbying firm will work for eBay … Long Range Systems hires Skip Cass, ex-Belo Corp. Internet and broadcast-TV executive, as president-CEO, succeeding Ken Lovegreen, who becomes chief technology officer … Coinstar promotes Carole McCluskey to chief technology officer … NBCUniversal’s Oxygen Media hires Harleen Kahlon, ex-Bundle Corp., as senior vice president-digital … Sundance Channel hires as vice presidents for marketing department: Raymond Dooley, ex-Viacom Media Networks, consumer marketing, and Evan Fleischer, ex-MEC Entertainment, integrated marketing and branded entertainment … Cox Enterprises promotes Katherine Decker to vice president-treasurer.
LIN Media hires Jamie Elden, ex-Alloy Media, as senior vice president-sales for RMM digital business … Gannett hires Eric Land, ex-Walkabout Air Aviation, as president and general manager of WTLV/WJXX Jacksonville, Fla.
FTC names Scott Wilson, ex-Treasury Department’s Bureau of Engraving and Printing, inspector general … Dialogic changes: CEO Nick Jensen resigns, named non-executive vice chairman; Kevin Cook promoted to CEO; director Patrick Jones, ex-Gemalto, named non-executive chairman … Discovery Networks International (DNI) promotes to vice president-production and development: Jon Sechrist for DNI and TLC international; and Sarah Thornton for DNI lifestyle in Central, Eastern and Western Europe, Middle East and Africa … Advanced Television Broadcasting Alliance adds to new Alliance Faith-Based Outreach Taskforce: Jamey Schmitz, WLMB-TV Toledo, Ohio, and Randy Weiss, Excellence in Christian Broadcasting, as co-chairmen; other members are Glenn Plummer, Christian Television Network; Annette Garcia, Son Broadcasting; and Grace Rendall, KSCE-TV El Paso, Texas … Digital Development Group over-the-top company adds Bryan Subotnick, Nyce Play, to board.
Rural Cellular Association adds Craven Shumaker, Iowa Wireless Services, to board … Journal Communications hires Faith Perkins, ex-Cox Media Group, as vice president-human resources, effective Aug. 27 …Application Developers Alliance board adds Mike Fordyce, YP.
SeaChange appoints Andrei Noppe, ex-M7 Group, senior vice president-general manager, Europe, Middle East, Asia and Asia-Pacific region … Lobbyist Registrations: Mobile TeleSystems OJSC, R&R Partners, effective Aug. 1.
Q2 broadcast results: Nexstar sales increased 17.7 percent from a year earlier to $88.8 million as a sharp increase in political ad sales and 77 percent boost in retransmission consent fees helped results. During the quarter, Nexstar brought in $15.3 million in retransmission fees, up from $8.6 million a year earlier. It swung to an $8.8 million profit from a $2.6 million loss a year earlier … TV ad sales at Fisher Communications increased 17 percent from a year earlier to $35.8 million, excluding nearly $1 million in political ad sales. Retransmission consent revenue increased 89 percent to $6.3 million. Sales at its radio stations fell 2 percent from a year earlier to $5.6 million. Its net income increased 18 percent to $4.3 million … TV ad sales at the E.W. Scripps Company increased 16 percent from a year earlier, on a pro forma basis, to $117 million, the company said. Factoring out the stations it acquired from McGraw-Hill, political ad sales nearly doubled from the same period in the previous national election year, 2010, to $8.2 million. Total retransmission consent revenue more than doubled from a year earlier to $7.8 million as a result of the new stations and new contracts with distributors, it said. TV profit more than doubled from a year earlier to $34.9 million on some accounting changes.
Syniverse promotes Alfred de Cárdenas to chief operating officer; hires Mahesh Prasad, ex-Reliance Communications, as president of sales for the Americas … El Rey Network cable channel that starts at the end of 2013 hires: Antoinette Alfonso Zel, ex-La Comunidad, as CEO; Dave Cassaro, ex-NBCUniversal, named head of El Rey launch team … AMC Networks promotions for corporate communications: Georgia Juvelis to senior vice president; Lisa Rogen and Jaime Saberito to vice presidents … Pilat Media Global hires Damien Thomson, ex-Facilitate Digital, as general manager for Asia-Pacific region, including integrated broadcast management system.
Bluetooth Special Interest Group hires Mark Powell, Kineto Wireless, as executive director … Kalpak Gude left associate general counsel position at Intelsat … Qualcomm names Anand Chandrasekher, ex-Intel, chief marketing officer … Cowen Group hires John Blackledge, ex-Credit Suisse, as director and senior research analyst covering Internet and new media … SeaChange International board adds Steve Craddock, Del Ray Group … Gannett hires Emma Gilding, ex-Omnicom, as vice president-brand research and strategy … Cox Enterprises adds Neil Campbell, ex-Americold Logistics, as assistant vice president-financial planning and analysis … Lobbyist Registrations: New Arcadian Networks, Faegre Baker Daniels, effective July 1.
White House says Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs Administrator Cass Sunstein is departing … Named to FCC 2015 World Radiocommunication Conference Advisory Committee: Scott Blake Harris, Neustar, chairman; Diane Cornell, Inmarsat, vice chairman; Alex Roytblat, agency’s International Bureau Strategic Analysis and Negotiations Division, designated federal official to the panel … FTC appointments: Andrew Gavil, ex-Howard University School of Law, named director of Office of Policy Planning, replacing Susan DeSanti, who moved to San Francisco and agency’s Western regional office; Steven Bellovin, ex-Columbia University, named chief technologist, replacing Edward Felten, returning to Princeton University; and Richard Brunell, ex-American Antitrust Institute (AAI), named senior adviser for competition matters, with the hires effective Sept. 4; until then OPP Deputy Director Tara Isa Koslov is acting OPP director; William Efron promoted to director of Northeast regional office … At AAI, Senior Counsel Randy Stutz promoted to also head its amicus program in absence of Brunell; and Sandeep Vaheesan elevated to special counsel … Disney promotes Peter Seymour to executive vice president-chief financial officer, Disney/ABC Television Group, new position.