AP Names Top Operations Exec

Nick Evansky, director of technology for Associated Press Television News, based in London, has been named VP and director of operations for AP Services and Technology.

He will move to the company's New York headquarters, where he will be responsible for technical infrastructure and support for all AP formats.

One of those formats is the Web, where AP has just launched a news service to supply tightly edited news pieces to stations that don't have the bandwidth to created the online news themselves.

John Eggerton

Contributing editor John Eggerton has been an editor and/or writer on media regulation, legislation and policy for over four decades, including covering the FCC, FTC, Congress, the major media trade associations, and the federal courts. In addition to Multichannel News and Broadcasting + Cable, his work has appeared in Radio World, TV Technology, TV Fax, This Week in Consumer Electronics, Variety and the Encyclopedia Britannica.