Kroner To Chair WICT Touchstone Luncheon

By John Eggerton
( Broadcasting & Cable )
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Ellen Kroner, executive VP, communications, for AMC Networks, has been named honorary chair of Women In Cable Telecommunications' Touchstone Luncheon.

The Luncheon will be held Oct. 7 during WICT's Diversity Week Leadership Conference in New York.

The Luncheon honors 2013 Woman of the Year and A+E chairman Abbe Raven, and Women to Watch Bernadine Han, VP of news and local programming for Time Warner Cable, and Marjorie Kaplan, group president of Discovery's Animal Planet and Science Channel & Velocity.

The Woman to Watch award goes to an executive "with leadership potential who exhibits job excellence as well as strong dedication to the industry."

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.