Harris Named to NBC Seat on NAB Board

NBCU executive VP and general counsel Kimberley Harris has been named to NBC's network seat on the National Association of Broadcasters TV board of directors.

She is assuming the seat formerly held by Meredith Atwell Baker, former senior VP of government affairs for Comcast-NBCU, who last month was named president of CTIA-The Wireless Association.

Harris is the former legal counselor to President Barack Obama who joined NBCU in 2013.

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.