Discovery Health’s Mullin Gets Some TLC

Rita Mullin, vice president of development for Discovery Health Channel, was named to head up development for co-owned TLC.

As VP of development, she will oversee new and original programming, based in Silver Spring, Md., and reporting to Nancy Daniels, senior VP of production and development.

Mullin joined Discovery in 1996 as managing editor of Discovery Channel Monthly.

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.