Newly elected to National Association of Tower Erectors board is Joel Hightower, Hightower Communications … NEC of America hires Kevin Hooper, ex-Hewlett-Packard, as senior vice president, to run NEC Enterprise Platform Solutions business.
Media earnings: News Corp.’s fiscal Q1 sales were $8.14 billion, up 2 percent from a year earlier, it said. Net income increased 192 percent from a year earlier to $2.23 billion on proceeds of its sale of NDS to Cisco … Q3 sales at Discovery fell less than 1 percent from a year earlier to $1.07 billion, the company said. Net income fell 10 percent to $214 million as a result of foreign currency fluctuations, an increase in mark-to-market equity-based compensation, interest expenses and higher taxes, Discovery said.
Comcast moves Rodrigo Lopez to regional vice president-Oregon and Southwest Washington state, replacing Hank Fore, now running the company’s California operations … Nickelodeon hires Jill Sanford, ex-Disney, as vice president-animation development, Nickelodeon Group.
NBCUniversal promotes Hilary Smith to senior vice president-communications, entertainment and digital networks/integrated media … Cox Enterprises hires Paul Scolese, ex-Akin Gump, as assistant vice president-government affairs … TrustComm commercial satellite company hires Rodrigo Gomez, ex-Stratos Global Corp., as chief technology officer; and Jim Tran, ex-Harris CapRock, as chief sales officer … News Corp.’s Fox Cable Networks promotes to senior vice president-business and legal affairs: Peter Marco and Lisa Richardson … Cable & Telecommunications Association for Marketing elects as new executive committee members: Shelley Wright Brindle, Home Box Office; and Gemma Toner, Cablevision.
Michael White to remain DirecTV chairman, CEO and president, following his current employment deal’s expiration Jan. 1 … President’s National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee designates Maggie Wilderotter, Frontier Communications, as chairman … Entercom General Counsel Jack Donlevie will step down from that position Jan. 1, be succeeded by Andrew Sutor, also being promoted to senior vice president; Donlevie will remain executive vice president until retiring in 2015 … Entravision promotes Jeffery Liberman to chief operating officer; Mario Carrera to chief revenue officer; Esteban Lopez Blanco to chief strategy officer-corporate development and innovation … Cox Enterprises promotes Jack Polish to vice president-controller.
ViaWest managed services and cloud provider promotes Nancy Phillips to CEO, succeeding Roy Dimoff, who remains chairman … NPR hires: Emma Carrasco, ex-Republica, as chief marketing officer; and Loren Mayor, ex-PBS, as strategy senior vice president … Global Capacity hires Ben Edmond, ex-FiberLight, as chief revenue officer … Open Networking Foundation elects Steven Schwartz, Goldman Sachs, to board.
On-Ramp Wireless energy automation and machine-to-machine communications firm hires Kevin Hell, ex-DivX, as president and CEO.
Video streaming firm Haivision hires Chance Mason, ex-SaaS, as executive vice president, Internet Media Division … Level 3 promotes Andrew Crouch to regional president-North America … Named to three-year terms on Cable Center board: Paul Cronin, Cox Communications; Phil McKinney, CableLabs; and Kyle McSlarrow, Comcast Cable.
European Telecommunications Network Operators’ Association re-elects Luigi Gambardella, Telecom Italia, as chairman of executive board, for 2013 … Social-TV company Echo hires Jason Hoch, ex-WWE, as senior vice president-customer strategy and product marketing … Motorola Solutions adds to board: Anne Pramaggiore, Commonwealth Edison; and Bradley Singer, ValueAct Capital.
Lobbyist registrations: SoftBank, Carmen Group, effective Oct. 22 … LightSquared, Hogan Lovells, effective Oct. 3. … CBS promotes Tom Canedo to vice president-general manager, CBS Television Station group’s Detroit stations WWJ-TV and WKBD-TV.