MPAA Promotes Communications Exec

The Motion Picture Association of America has announced three changes to its communications team.

Kate Bedingfield has been named VP, corporate communications, reporting to EVP for Global Communications Laura Nichols. She will be MPAA's principal spokesperson as well as a communications strategist. Bedingfield had been director of strategic communications.

Howard Gantman, who had been VP of corporate communications, assumes the new role of VP, global and strategic communications, focusing on global messaging for international, litigation, research and internal communications.

In addition, TJ Ducklo, who had been a press assistant, has been named deputy director of corporate communications.

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.