John Eggerton
John Eggerton, Washington Bureau Chief for B&C and editor of the daily TV Fax, has been with the magazine, based in Washington, since 1981 as a copy boy, editorial assistant, reporter, editor, assistant managing editor, to name only a few titles. He is also a principal contributor to the breaking news section of broadcastingcable.com.
Title: Washington Bureau Chief for B&C
Email: jeggerton@nbmedia.com
BC/DC: Eggerton on WashingtonLink This | Email This | Comments (0) Wheeler/Clyburn Ticket?FCC chairman Julius Genachowski has yet to announce his exit date, but the inside-the-Beltway chatter about his successor is coalescing around a scenario where former National Cable and Telecommunications Association president Tom Wheeler is nominated to replace Genachowski and, since the vetting and voting for that pick will likely take a few months, Mignon Clyburn would be named interim... MoreLink This | Email This | Comments (0) The Unbalance of PowerJust a secretly-recorded tape reel’s roll away from the Russell Senate Office building where the iconic hearings were held, former Watergate prosecutors mingled with iconic Nixon Administration figures last Thursday (April 18). The venue was the Newseum in Washington, D.C., which played host to a Discovery Channel and White House Correspondents Association hosted premiere screening of... MoreLink This | Email This | Comments (0) Marathon Story 'Breaks Open' OvernightOnly hours after the FBI circulated photos and videos of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects, the story began moving at lightning speed and the 24-hour news nets were all over it. At press time a little before 5 a.m., according to CNN and Fox News and others, an MIT police officer had been killed by a pair of gunmen identified as the suspects; one of the suspects–suspect number one in... MoreLink This | Email This | Comments (0) Tentative Dates Surface for Senate Communications HearingAccording to an industry source, Sen. Mark Pryor (D-Ark.) has come up with some dates for a series of communications-related hearings he signaled recently would be part of an active Communications Subcommittee agenda under its new chairman. According to the source, there is a pretty solid date of April 25 for a hearing on wireless communications. More tentative are a May 14 target date for a... MoreLink This | Email This | Comments (0) FCC Official: Not Aware of Any Boston Communications ShutdownSome reports Monday suggested cell service might have been shut down in Boston in case the bombs at the Boston Marathon had been triggered by cell phone. But that appears not to have been the case. Fox News interviewed its own senior producer, Jay Soroko, who was running the marathon. Soroko said he was about a half mile from the finish line when the explosions went off. Police jumped into... More |
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