Nominations sent to Senate for previously announced presidential plans to appoint: Penny Pritzker secretary of commerce, replacing John Bryson, resigned; Tom Wheeler to be FCC member for term expiring June 30, replacing outgoing Chairman Julius Genachowski, and also for a five-year term as a reappointment starting July 1 … Triton Digital promotes Jean-François Gadoury to chief technology officer.

Quarterly media company results: News Corp. reported net income of $2.9 billion for Q3 2013, vs. the $1 billion for the same period last year. A company release (http://bit.ly/15qaluK) said the income gains were related to the acquisition of an additional ownership stake in Sky Deutschland and the sale of the company’s stake in New Zealand’s Sky Network Television, along with an $11 million gain from shares of BSkyB that were repurchased. It said the gains were “partially offset” by $56 million of restructuring charges related to the company’s international newspaper businesses. News Corp. had $9.54 billion total revenue for Q3, a 14 percent increase from the prior-year quarter. News Corp. said “approximately 55 percent of the revenue increase reflects growth at the Cable Network Programming, Filmed Entertainment and Television segments,” though the growth was offset by lower revenue in publishing. ... AMC Networks reported a 17.1 percent increase in net revenue to $382 million in Q1 this year compared to a year ago, a release said (http://bit.ly/YIhVOa). AMC also improved in net income, to $62 million from $43 million the prior-year quarter. The company said the gains were driven by the company’s original programming, such as Portlandia and The Walking Dead.

FCC Chief of Staff Zac Katz named senior fellow at USC Annenberg’s Center on Communication Leadership & Policy … Renee Gregory, aide to FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski, to stay at commission as chief of staff, Office of Engineering and Technology … Acting U.S. Trade Representative Demetrios Marantis leaves to head international government, regulatory and policy at mobile payment company Square … Robert Pick, Comcast, joins ValueVision board … SeaChange International Chief Financial Officer Michael Bornak resigns effective May 31; Anthony Dias promoted to senior vice president and will be interim chief financial officer during the search for a permanent CFO … Amy Hood promoted to Microsoft chief financial officer, replacing Peter Klein … Christin McMeley, ex-Charter Communications, joins Davis Wright as a partner in the firm’s Washington, D.C., office …Lobbyist registrations: RIAA, Capitol Counsel, effective April 1.

Q1 media results: Arbitron profit fell 8.4 percent from the year-ago quarter to $16.3 million, the company said in a news release (http://bit.ly/YvIbFW). Arbitron said some of the hit came from $3.2 million in expenses related to the company’s pending acquisition by Nielsen Holdings, which was approved by Arbitron’s shareholders in April. Expenses in Q1 also rose because of “planned incremental investments in Arbitron Mobile panels, costs associated with address-based sampling, in-person recruiting, and cell-phone household recruiting,” Arbitron said. Revenue rose 34 percent to $112 million. ... Nexstar profit dropped from $3.16 million to $705,000. The company blamed some of the drop on the absence of political ad revenue, but said (http://bit.ly/15q8XIs) it had a record quarter for net revenue, with a 34.2 percent increase to $112.2 million. CEO Perry Sook predicted the company would generate “record revenue and free cash flow in 2013, even without the benefit of the record levels of political revenues we generated in 2012."

President Barack Obama sends nominations to Senate for previously announced appointments of: Anthony Foxx, mayor of Charlotte, N.C., to be secretary of transportation, replacing Ray LaHood; Michael Froman, PSP Capital Partners, to be U.S. Trade Representative, replacing Ronald Kirk; and House Judiciary Committee member Mel Watt, D-N.C., to be director of Federal Housing Finance Agency for a five-year term … Paul de Sa, ex-FCC, was hired in August by Sanford Bernstein as vice president-senior research analyst.

Q1 media company results: Liberty Global reported net earnings for Q1 of $22.9 million, up from $8 million during the same period in 2012, said a release Monday (http://bit.ly/10EgGJP). The company also had a 9 percent increase in revenue over Q1 last year, to $2.77 billion. Liberty said it’s “on track” to complete its buy of Virgin Media before the end of Q2, with shareholder votes scheduled for early June. ... Discovery Communications reported Q1 net income of $231 million, up 4 percent from Q1 2012, said a release Tuesday (http://bit.ly/13r3Gfp). Discovery had revenue of $1.16 billion, up 7 percent from the same period last year. The company had 17 percent growth in revenue from its international networks, the release said. ... Charter Communications reported a net loss of $42 million for Q1 Tuesday, an improvement over the same period last year, when the company lost $94 million (http://bit.ly/12QAMT8). The company’s revenue grew 4.9 percent for Q1, to $1.9 billion. Charter said the revenue increase was “driven by growth in video services revenue and Internet and commercial customers.” Charter said it added 56,000 customers since the previous quarter, which is down from a gain of 86,000 in the first quarter of 2012. The company said its “all-digital initiative” will be completed by the end of 2014. Charter said the FCC’s recent waiver of the CableCARD requirement for Charter “will allow the Company to deploy set-top boxes without CableCARDs, improving the economics and speed of its all-digital initiative."

Sheppard Mullin hires as partners from Hogan Lovells to Business Trial practice group and Communications team: Gardner Gillespie, Dave Thomas and Paul Werner … Disney promotes Adam Bonnett to executive vice president-original programming, Disney Channels Worldwide, new position … MobiTV promotes Cedric Fernandes to chief technology officer … Alianza cloud-based voice service firm hires as vice presidents: Mark Gardner, ex-Mavenir Systems, for global sales; and Kevin Mitchell, ex-Acme Packet, marketing … Zonoff connected home company hires Dave DiOrio, ex-Quartics, as vice president-customer programs … Qualcomm elects Jonathan Rubinstein, formerly with Hewlett-Packard, to board.

Media Q1 results: Mediacom Communications’ Mediacom Broadband and Mediacom LLC each reported results (http://bit.ly/15sSh2L). Mediacom Broadband sales rose 1.8 percent to $225.3 million from Q1 2012 as the company added fewer primary service units than in the year-ago quarter, as also occurred at Mediacom LLC. That unit’s sales rose 1.4 percent to $171 million. Both businesses lost video customers and added broadband subscribers. ... E.W. Scripps sales fell 4.1 percent to $198.7 million from the year-ago quarter, it said in a news release Monday (http://bit.ly/11cvcQF). “More than half of the decline was due to the near-absence of political advertising revenue in 2013.” The loss from operations grew 2.7 percent to $7.6 million. “Tough year-over-year revenue comparisons caused by cyclical political advertising will continue through the balance of 2013,” said CEO Rich Boehne.

Wilkinson Barker hires Scott Blake Harris, ex-Neustar (CD May 3 p14), as managing partner, and will focus on U.S. and international telecom, technology and energy law … Wiley Rein hires Anna Gomez, who recently left NTIA as deputy administrator (CD March 6 p8), as partner, Telecommunications Group … Michael Hartman, senior vice president and general counsel of DirecTV Latin America, adds title of DirecTV corporate secretary and deputy general counsel, as DirecTV Sports Networks hires David Woodman, ex-Motive Television, as general manager, Root Sports network in Rocky Mountain region … Computer & Communications Industry Association hires Matthew Levy, ex-Cloudigy Law, as patent counsel … ViaSat hires Ken Peterman, ex-SpyGlass Group, as general manager-government systems … Craig Moffett, ex-Sanford Bernstein, starts own research firm called Moffett Research, where he will resume covering cable, satellite and telecom industries … Boingo Wireless hires Nick Hulse, ex-Rubicon Project, as president … ScrollMotion, enterprise applications for tablets firm, hires Per Brondum Jakobsen, ex-International Game Technology, as chief product officer … REACH Health telemedicine technology firm hires Brad Lochman, ex-Allscripts, as vice president-sales … Univision Communications promotes Marie Ann Dougherty to vice president-national spot sales, Univision Television Group.

Media company Q1 results: CC Media sales fell 1 percent to $1.34 billion from the year-ago quarter and operating income was little changed at $81.3 million, the radio broadcaster said in a news release Friday (http://bit.ly/138yRvN). It said media and entertainment revenue fell 2 percent to $656.6 million “driven primarily by the traffic business, which continues to reflect integration activities. Offsetting this decline was strength in radio stations, including national and digital operations.” ... Madison Square Garden Co. revenue in its fiscal Q3 ended March 31 rose 3 percent to $412.4 million, as operating income grew 20 percent to $63.8 million, it said (http://on.msg.com/18AGmw3). MSG Media sales rose 11 percent to $184.7 million as affiliate fee revenue rose amid higher rates and more carriage. ... Washington Post Co. cable revenue rose 5 percent to $200.1 million from the year-ago quarter on rate increases for many subscribers in June. The unit’s operating income rose 12 percent to $36.6 million, the company said Friday (http://bit.ly/15eQGh5). “Primary Service Units (PSUs) were down 3 percent from the prior year due to a decline in basic video subscribers.” The number of basic-video subscribers fell 5.5 percent to 588,180. Broadcast TV division revenue rose 5 percent to $85.3 million as operating income rose 14 percent to $35.4 million. The company cited “growth in advertising demand across many product categories and increased retransmission revenues.” Companywide sales rose less than 1 percent to $959.1 million as income from continuing operations fell 55 percent to $6.1 million. ... Shentel sales rose 10 percent to $76 million from Q1 2012 as income from continuing operations surged 90 percent to $8.4 million, the company reported (http://bit.ly/105CW51). The total number of voice, data and video subscribers rose 2.3 percent to 116,576.