Comcast Staffs Up in D.C.

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Comcast has hired two new members of its Washington legal
and public policy team.

Ryan Wallach, special counsel to Willkie, Farr &
Gallagher, is senior deputy general counsel, representing the FCC on
legal and regulatory matters. He will report to Lynn Charytan, VP and senior
deputy general counsel. Madura Wijewardena has been named senior director,
public policy.

Wijewardena comes from the National Urban League, where he
has been director of research and policy. He reports to VP, global public
policy, Rebecca Arbogast.

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.