Rural Telecommunications Group names Tanya Sullivan, ex-National Rural Telecommunications Cooperative, executive director … ComStar Media names Pete Thomson, ex-FamilyNet, vice president/general sales manager … Changes at The Hub: Joshua Meyer, ex-Cookie Jar Entertainment, becomes senior vice president, business and legal affairs; Jordan Beck, ex-ReelzChannel, named vice president, creative services and on-air promotions; Lou Fazio, ex-Game Show Network, vice president, scheduling, acquisitions and planning; Greg Heanue, ex-Weather Channel, vice president, marketing and promotions; Fred Poston, ex-ReelzChannel, vice president-operations; Michael Ross, ex-Disney Baby, vice president, production and post-production …
Former FCC Commissioner Kathleen Abernathy, now with Frontier Communications, joins USTelecom board …
Entone hires: Bart Vanderostyne, ex-Cisco, director of sales and operations for Europe, Middle East and Africa, and Björn von Haartman, ex-Tilgin and Amino, as director of sales and business development for the Nordic and Baltic regions.
Karen Peltz Strauss, ex-Coalition of Organizations for Accessible Technology, becomes deputy chief, FCC Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau …
Illinois Commerce Commissioner Erin O'Connell-Diaz named to National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners board … Edward Randolph becomes director of governmental affairs and senior policy adviser at the California Public Utility Commission. He was chief consultant to the State Assembly Committee on Utilities and Commerce …
IRTS Foundation elections: Chairman Pierre Bouvard, Arbitron; Vice Chairmen Steve Hasker, Nielsen; Kathleen Keefe, Hearst Television; Henry Schleiff, Investigation Discovery; Secretary Stuart Shorenstein, Cozen O'Connor; and Treasurer Jed Kapsos, CBS …
Rodney Smith, ex-AT&T Washington, named president of AT&T Connecticut …
Pamela Harbour to resign as FTC commissioner, effective April 6 …
Douglas Nazarian, Maryland, joins executive committee of National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners … Bright House Networks promotes Michelle Stuart to vice president-marketing, Tampa, Fla. … Local Media promotes Peter Maroney, ex-WTVR Richmond, Va., to run Denver TV stations KDVR and KWGN. Stephen Hayes replaces him on interim basis.
Ex parte filings: NAB believes “input from broadcasters will be very important to understanding the full ramifications of any changes in spectrum policy,” the group said a March 1 submission at http://xrl.us/bgx4oo. At a meeting with Executive Director Blair Levin of the FCC’s national plan and other senior broadband staffers, association General Counsel Jane Mago asked how rulemakings will be done to carry out parts of the plan.