Univision Hires Walmart Government Relations Exec

Univision said Wednesday that Belinda Garza has been named VP of government relations and public engagement for the Hispanic media company, based in Washington.

She reports to Bert Gomez, senior VP of government relations.

Garza comes to Univision after a decade with Walmart, where she was director of federal government relations.

At Univision, Garza will head up Congress and relations with "key" state capitals and help with Univision's PAC.

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.