Carteris To Top AFTRA L.A. Local

By John Eggerton
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Actress Gabrielle Carteris, perhaps best-known as Andrea Zuckerman on Beverly Hills 90210 and star of a short-lived synidcated talker, has been elected president of AFTRA's Los Angeles local union.

She succeeds Ron Morgan, who did not seek re-election.

Carteris will now become part of the process of exploring the creation of a new union in conjunction with the Screen Actors Guild. The AFTRA national board voted last month to start talks by the end of this month on merging with SAG. Carteris takes over July 1.

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.