Baker to Keynote PowerBrokers Breakfast

By John Eggerton
( Broadcasting & Cable )
published

Former FCC commissioners Meredith Attwell
Baker will give the keynote address at the Oct. 29 PowerBrokers Breakfast in Washington.

Baker is currently senior
VP, government affairs for NBCUniversal.

PowerBrokers is
sponsored by the Washington/Baltimore chapter of Women in Cable
Telecommunications (WICT) and honors the Touchstones of Leadership Award
winners, which include policymakers and regulators saluted for their work on
behalf of consumers and business.

Baker knows all
about such work. In addition to serving at the FCC, Baker is the former acting
head of the National Telecommunications & Information Administration, where
she helped oversee the digital TV converter box program that insured that over-the-air
households with analog TV's would not be disenfranchised.

John Eggerton
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.