Carper to Drum Up Duop Business

Donn Carper, national sales manager for Viacom's KCBS-TV Los Angeles, has been named VP, new business development and sales and marketing, for the company's southern California duopoly--KCBS and co-owned KCAL.

Carper has been with Viacom since 2003. Before that he was senior account manager for KMEX-TV, the Univision station in Los Angeles.

His extensive L.A. resume also includes stints at KABC, with KCAL when it was still KHJ, and two ad agencies.

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.