NBCU CEO to Interview Pelosi

By John Eggerton
( Broadcasting & Cable )
published

NBCU
CEO Jeff Zucker will interview House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) as part of
NBCU's "Power of the Purse" breakfast event Sept. 28 in New York.

That
will kick off NBCU's "Women in Power: Marketing to the Educated Consumer"
event, part of Ad Week in New York.

Pelosi
is the first female speaker of the House and Zucker plans to focus on her
position as "arguably the most powerful woman in America," according
to NBCU.

Following
the Pelosi interview, Paley Center CEO Pat Mitchell will moderate a panel on
the female consumer featuring Daily Beast founder Tina Brown; Donna Speciale,
president of investment and activation at Media Vest USA; and Kim Brink,
executive director of advertising and sales promotion for Cadillac.

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.