Beales to Keynote WICT DC/Baltimore PowerBrokers Breakfast

Char Beales, former president and CEO of the Cable & Telecommunications Association for Marketing (CTAM), will keynote the PowerBrokers Breakfast of the Washington/Baltimore Chapter of Women in Cable Telecommunications (WICT) Oct. 6 at the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington.

WICT also announced the Grace Koh, counsel to the House Energy & Commerce Committee, will receive its Touchstones of Leadership Public Policy Award.

Before coming to the House, Koh was policy counsel for Cox Communications parent Cox Enterprises.

"Grace's work is an inspiration to many women who aspire to careers in telecommunications and policy," said PowerBrokers chair Jane Quilter.

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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.