President Barack Obama plans to nominate Jo Handelsman, Yale University, to be associate director for science in the Office of Science and Technology Policy … CC Media Holdings hires Richard Bressler, a director of the company, as president and chief financial officer of it and of Clear Channel Communications … Lone Star Corporate Services network operations company hires Sean Flippo, ex-EMC, as chief marketing officer and executive vice president-sales … Viacom promotes Karim Mawji to senior vice president-digital platform, Music & Entertainment Ad Sales group, new position … General Cable names Sallie Bailey, Louisiana-Pacific, to board.

Media Q2 results: Discovery Communications Q2 revenue grew 30 percent to $1.47 billion from the same period last year, said the company in a news release Tuesday (http://bit.ly/1e8R67D). “Our sustained commitment to producing captivating content and the further expansion of global pay-tv markets combined to once again drive audience and revenue growth across our unique distribution platform,” said CEO David Zaslav. Net income rose to $300 million from $293 million. Last quarter’s growth was led by a 61 percent revenue increase from international networks to $652 million, and a 13 percent revenue increase in the cable programmer’s U.S. networks to $793 million. The international increase comes from increased subscribership, particularly in Latin America, it said. Ad revenue was up on the international side, “primarily due to higher pricing and delivery in Latin America and increased viewership and higher pricing in Western Europe,” said the company. U.S. network revenue rose primarily on “advertising and distribution revenue growth,” the release said. Discovery expects 2013 revenue of $5.55 billion to $5.63 billion and net income available to stockholders of $1.1 billion to $1.15 billion. Discovery stock closed down 4 percent to $81 on Tuesday. ... LIN Media revenue rose 36 percent to $164.3 million from Q2 2012, a release said (http://bit.ly/17eR5eD). “Our results were driven by our recent television station acquisitions, higher pay TV subscriber fees and significant growth in our digital business,” said CEO Vincent Sandusky. LIN sales from ads, retransmission consent and TV station websites rose 44 percent to $107.1 million. Political ad revenue dropped by $6.1 million to $1.5 million. Net income fell from $27 million to $7.2 million. “Looking ahead, the absence of political revenues and the slow economic recovery will negatively impact growth for the remainder of 2013,” said Sandusky. ... Belo, being acquired by Gannett (CD July 26 p6), said in a release (http://bit.ly/157H9b0) that the deal led to a $4.1 million increase in corporate operating costs and a $2.7 million increase in share-based compensation expense due to Belo’s rising stock price. Belo also reported a decrease in profit to $21.8 million from $25.8 million in Q2 2012. Revenue fell 2.3 percent to $174 million. Belo blamed the drop on the decrease in political revenue, which totaled $1.2 million, compared to $9.5 million in Q2 2012. But Belo said Internet ads were up by about 21 percent and retrans consent revenue grew 10 percent.

Copyright Office promotes Jacqueline Charlesworth to general counsel and associate register of copyrights … German Foreign Ministry hires Dirk Brengelmann, ex-NATO, as cyberpolicy officer … AVG Technologies, provider of Internet, mobile security and privacy products, hires Gary Kovacs, ex-Mozilla, as CEO and managing director … Entravision hires Angelica Balderas, ex-Adelante Media Group, as senior vice president-integrated marketing solutions for Sacramento, Calif., market.

Milbank Tweed hires Phillip Spector, ex-Intelsat, as of counsel, space/satellite practice … Bloomberg hires Justin Smith, ex-Atlantic Media, as CEO, Bloomberg Media Group, effective Sept. 16, as CEO Andrew Lack becomes chairman of the group that includes radio, TV and digital businesses … Emulex hires Perry Mulligan, ex-QLogic, as senior vice president-operations … Extreme Networks hires Ed Carney, ex-Cisco, as executive vice president-product and customer success … Southern California Broadcasters Association names Amber Perry, KRTH(FM) Los Angeles, chairwoman of General Sales Managers Council for Southern California radio members … Unwired Planet names board member Phil Vachon chairman, replacing Peter Feld, who remains on the board, which also adds Greg Landis, TerraPower, replacing Robin Abrams, resigned.

Julie Bauer, ex-Best Buy, named president of the Panasonic Consumer Electronics sales division, a post vacant since February when Kitajima Shiro returned to Japan … Gilbert Amelio to retire from AT&T’s board to devote more attention to professional and personal activities.

Senate confirms Tony West as Department of Justice associate attorney general, after he held that title on acting basis … Time Warner Cable Chairman and CEO Glenn Britt to retire at year’s end, remain on board, and be succeeded by Robert Marcus, being promoted and also elected to board … National Security Network Executive Director Heather Hurlburt to step down Sept. 30, continue in advisory role; organization searching for replacement … Viacom promotes Pamela Kaufman to chief marketing officer and president, consumer products-Nickelodeon … Clear Channel hires Kevin Mackall, ex-consultant to company and executive at Viacom’s MTV, as senior vice president-visual branding, working with stations and iHeartRadio … AMC Networks hires Gustavo Lopez, ex-Discovery Communications, as vice president-global distribution and business development for Latin America, new position … International Datacasting Corp. elects as new director Chris Van Staveren, Chrysalis4 Investments.

Consumers International names Amanda Long, executive at U.K. co-operatives, director general effective in January, following retirement of Helen McCallum … Calient Technologies optical circuit switching technology company hires Jag Setlur, ex-July Systems, as chief financial officer … FreedomPay payment systems company hires Rodney Bowen-Wright, ex-Microsoft, as chief business development officer … IDC Financial Insights hires James Wester, ex-Mobile Payments Today, to lead Worldwide Payment Strategies practice … National Emergency Number Association names Lisa Hoffmann, San Francisco Department of Emergency Management, as Western regional director on NENA’s executive board, and Jim Shepard, 911 Datamaster, co-chairman of NENA’s Development Steering Council … Lobbying registrations: Gila River Telecommunications, Akin Gump, effective May 23 … TechNet, Bay Bridge Strategies, effective June 5 … BlackBerry, Comcast, NCTA, Time Warner Cable and Cablevision, Capitol Counsel, effective July 1 … Network Designs cybersecurity company, Dentons US, effective June 1.

Acision mobile messaging firm hires Adolfo Hernandez, formerly at Alcatel-Lucent, as CEO, succeeding Jorgen Nilsson, who recently stepped down, effective Aug. 19 … Infonetics Research hires Clifford Grossner, formerly of Alcatel-Lucent, as directing analyst-data center and cloud.

Davis Wright hires Wendy Kearns, ex-own boutique technology firm, as partner, technology transactional and mergers and acquisition practice in Seattle … Time Warner Inc. promotes Howard Averill to chief financial officer, effective Jan. 1, succeeding John Martin, previously promoted to CEO, Turner Broadcasting System (CD July 18 p 16) … Lobbying registrations: Simulmedia, Balch & Bingham, effective June 3 … Stop Patent Abuse Now, Venable, effective June 14.

Northrop Grumman promotes Carol Erikson to vice president-engineering, Space Systems business … Texas Instruments elects Ron Kirk, ex-U.S. Trade Representative who now is at Gibson Dunn, to board, effective Sept. 19 … Lobbying registrations: Twenty-First Century Fox, Quinn Gillespie & Associates, effective April 1 … Sypris Electronics, Washington Alliance Group, effective April 30 … Arris Group, Wiley Rein, effective June 21 … Time Warner Cable, Capitol Counsel, effective July 1.