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Comcast Recruits Cable Executive
by Heather Greenfield
David Krone is leaving the National Cable and Telecommunications Association to join the group's biggest member, Comcast. He will join the company as senior vice president for corporate affairs starting in January and said he looks forward to contributing to its success.
Krone was NCTA's executive vice president for five years and before that was executive vice president of marketing at Yankees Entertainment and Sports. Before that, he served as executive vice president of communications and marketing of GlobalCenter, the Internet services subsidiary of Global Crossing. Krone also worked as an executive vice president of government relations at AT&T Broadband and TCI.
"David brings extensive experience and great understanding and insight of the cable distribution and network businesses, sports marketing, and how government, industry and other influential forces interact," said David Cohen, Comcast's executive vice president.
Telecom Group Hires Deloitte Consultant
Patrick Brogan, who has analyzed the telecommunications industry for Deloitte & Touche, has joined the industry he used to follow. He is the new vice president of industry analysis for the U.S. Telecom Association.
Brogan was a regulatory consultant in the technology, media and telecom sectors at Deloitte. He previously served as the assistant director of research at Precursor and as a telecom analyst for Legg Mason.
"We welcome the opportunity to add to our staff [with] Pat's tremendous experience analyzing market trends in the communications industry," USTA President and CEO Walter McCormick said. "He has a unique perspective and understanding of the opportunities and challenges facing communications companies today."
McCormick said Brogan will be "a much-needed resource" for the telecom industry.
"This position at U.S. Telecom is a great opportunity to work with the industry leaders and decision-makers who are driving today's communications industry," Brogan said.
Counterterrorism Director Resigns
Days after telling NBC News that the nation is probably not "tactically" safer from the threat of terrorism following the invasion of Iraq, National Counterterrorism Center Director Scott Redd announced he is resigning -- a move that has prompted speculation in the liberal blogosphere.
"It doesn't happen often, but whenever a Bush administration official is quoted anywhere, saying anything that undermines the White House line on important policy matters, many of us stop and think, 'That guy just put his job on the line,'" Scott Benen at The Carpetbagger Report. "After all, administration officials are supposed to be 'loyal Bushies,' not objective professionals."
In an interview earlier this month, NBC's Richard Engel asked Redd if the war in Iraq had created a "giant recruiting tool" for terrorists. Redd agreed, saying that "in the short term, that is probably true. But the question is you've got to look at this, I believe, in the long-term strategic view."
Asked later whether the United States is generally safer after invading Iraq, Redd said. "Tactically, probably not." But he added, "Strategically, we'll wait and see."
Redd, who has been chief of the nearly three-year-old National Counterterrorism Center, said in a statement he is stepping down next month to have a long-delayed surgery and to spend more time with his grandchildren. A spokesman said the surgery is to have both knees replaced.
"I obviously have no way of knowing if Redd voluntarily ended his decades-long career just a couple of days after going off message, but coincidences like this one make me laugh," Benen said.
Thomas Named General Manager Of NPR Online
Maria Thomas, who has directed National Public Radio's digital media activities since 2001 as vice president and general manager of its online division, is getting more than just a virtual promotion. She has been named senior vice president of digital media.
Thomas is responsible for NPR's online and on-demand operations, as well as its consumer products and e-commerce business, and its library and archival activities. She has led NPR's digital media expansion, overseeing the strategy, staffing and management of the division for six years. She now will lead further plans to expand the site.
"This appointment recognizes Maria's accomplishments, the increasing complexity of digital media and our goals for the future," CEO Ken Stern said. "NPR's digital media presence now spans public service, education, business development and revenue creation. Maria has played a major role in getting us to this point, and we look forward to her leading us to the next level."
Before joining NPR, Thomas was director of product development at Amazon.com, where she was involved in the launch and management of the pioneering online merchant's camera and photo store. She previously was an investment officer with the World Bank's private-sector arm, the International Finance Corporation. Her career at the IFC culminated with her appointment to the position of special assistant to the CEO.
Thomas began her career on Wall Street in corporate and project finance positions with Kidder, Peabody & Company.
TIA Celebrates Its Top Tech Executive
The Telecommunications Industry Association is congratulating its chief technology officer, Dan Bart, for receiving a distinguished leadership and service award from the American National Standards Institute this week.
Bart received the Howard Coonley Medal, which recognizes an executive who "has benefited the national economy through voluntary standardization and conformity assessment, and has given outstanding support to standardization as a management tool."
The institute honored Bart's active promotion of standardization programs and partnerships for the industry, and his long career with the Electronic Industries Alliance and TIA. "Dan's service to the standards community is not only highly commendable, it's unique in its scope and duration," TIA President Grant Seiffert said. "We at TIA and our member companies congratulate him for the fine work he's done these many years."
Bart and 13 other recipients received their award at a ceremony in Washington last week as part of the U.S. celebration of World Standards Week. It is Bart's second award from the institute; he won its Meritorious Service Award in 2004.
Royalty-Free Fun And Fair Use
Whoever wrote the invitation for the Computer and Communications Industry Association's open house last week may want to think about their position on the copyright debate ahead of their next creative endeavor.
The e-mail invited guests to make fair use of CCIA's new facilities and offered invitees a royalty-free license to enjoy CCIA's party-hearty business method, along with the lengthy patent number on that method.
Guests were directed to RSVP with an encrypted WiMAX wireless connection or just call to say whether they could come celebrate CCIA's new offices overlooking Farragut Square in downtown Washington.
Quote Of The Week
"Every family has a black sheep."
-- A spokesman for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, responding to an interview on MSNBC in which Lynne Cheney said she learned while researching her ancestry for a book that her husband, Vice President Richard Cheney, and Obama are distantly related.
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