FTC names Scott Wilson, ex-Treasury Department’s Bureau of Engraving and Printing, inspector general … Dialogic changes: CEO Nick Jensen resigns, named non-executive vice chairman; Kevin Cook promoted to CEO; director Patrick Jones, ex-Gemalto, named non-executive chairman … Discovery Networks International (DNI) promotes to vice president-production and development: Jon Sechrist for DNI and TLC international; and Sarah Thornton for DNI lifestyle in Central, Eastern and Western Europe, Middle East and Africa … Advanced Television Broadcasting Alliance adds to new Alliance Faith-Based Outreach Taskforce: Jamey Schmitz, WLMB-TV Toledo, Ohio, and Randy Weiss, Excellence in Christian Broadcasting, as co-chairmen; other members are Glenn Plummer, Christian Television Network; Annette Garcia, Son Broadcasting; and Grace Rendall, KSCE-TV El Paso, Texas … Digital Development Group over-the-top company adds Bryan Subotnick, Nyce Play, to board.

Rural Cellular Association adds Craven Shumaker, Iowa Wireless Services, to board … Journal Communications hires Faith Perkins, ex-Cox Media Group, as vice president-human resources, effective Aug. 27 …Application Developers Alliance board adds Mike Fordyce, YP.

SeaChange appoints Andrei Noppe, ex-M7 Group, senior vice president-general manager, Europe, Middle East, Asia and Asia-Pacific region … Lobbyist Registrations: Mobile TeleSystems OJSC, R&R Partners, effective Aug. 1.

Syniverse promotes Alfred de Cárdenas to chief operating officer; hires Mahesh Prasad, ex-Reliance Communications, as president of sales for the Americas … El Rey Network cable channel that starts at the end of 2013 hires: Antoinette Alfonso Zel, ex-La Comunidad, as CEO; Dave Cassaro, ex-NBCUniversal, named head of El Rey launch team … AMC Networks promotions for corporate communications: Georgia Juvelis to senior vice president; Lisa Rogen and Jaime Saberito to vice presidents … Pilat Media Global hires Damien Thomson, ex-Facilitate Digital, as general manager for Asia-Pacific region, including integrated broadcast management system.

Q2 broadcast results: Nexstar sales increased 17.7 percent from a year earlier to $88.8 million as a sharp increase in political ad sales and 77 percent boost in retransmission consent fees helped results. During the quarter, Nexstar brought in $15.3 million in retransmission fees, up from $8.6 million a year earlier. It swung to an $8.8 million profit from a $2.6 million loss a year earlier … TV ad sales at Fisher Communications increased 17 percent from a year earlier to $35.8 million, excluding nearly $1 million in political ad sales. Retransmission consent revenue increased 89 percent to $6.3 million. Sales at its radio stations fell 2 percent from a year earlier to $5.6 million. Its net income increased 18 percent to $4.3 million … TV ad sales at the E.W. Scripps Company increased 16 percent from a year earlier, on a pro forma basis, to $117 million, the company said. Factoring out the stations it acquired from McGraw-Hill, political ad sales nearly doubled from the same period in the previous national election year, 2010, to $8.2 million. Total retransmission consent revenue more than doubled from a year earlier to $7.8 million as a result of the new stations and new contracts with distributors, it said. TV profit more than doubled from a year earlier to $34.9 million on some accounting changes.

Bluetooth Special Interest Group hires Mark Powell, Kineto Wireless, as executive director … Kalpak Gude left associate general counsel position at Intelsat … Qualcomm names Anand Chandrasekher, ex-Intel, chief marketing officer … Cowen Group hires John Blackledge, ex-Credit Suisse, as director and senior research analyst covering Internet and new media … SeaChange International board adds Steve Craddock, Del Ray Group … Gannett hires Emma Gilding, ex-Omnicom, as vice president-brand research and strategy … Cox Enterprises adds Neil Campbell, ex-Americold Logistics, as assistant vice president-financial planning and analysis … Lobbyist Registrations: New Arcadian Networks, Faegre Baker Daniels, effective July 1.

White House says Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs Administrator Cass Sunstein is departing … Named to FCC 2015 World Radiocommunication Conference Advisory Committee: Scott Blake Harris, Neustar, chairman; Diane Cornell, Inmarsat, vice chairman; Alex Roytblat, agency’s International Bureau Strategic Analysis and Negotiations Division, designated federal official to the panel … FTC appointments: Andrew Gavil, ex-Howard University School of Law, named director of Office of Policy Planning, replacing Susan DeSanti, who moved to San Francisco and agency’s Western regional office; Steven Bellovin, ex-Columbia University, named chief technologist, replacing Edward Felten, returning to Princeton University; and Richard Brunell, ex-American Antitrust Institute (AAI), named senior adviser for competition matters, with the hires effective Sept. 4; until then OPP Deputy Director Tara Isa Koslov is acting OPP director; William Efron promoted to director of Northeast regional office … At AAI, Senior Counsel Randy Stutz promoted to also head its amicus program in absence of Brunell; and Sandeep Vaheesan elevated to special counsel … Disney promotes Peter Seymour to executive vice president-chief financial officer, Disney/ABC Television Group, new position.

E.W. Scripps Co. elects Anne La Dow, great-great-granddaughter of the company’s founder, to board, succeeding John Burlingame, whose retirement took effect Thursday … Cisco board adds Marc Benioff, salesforce.com, and Kristina Johnson, Enduring Hydro … Internet2 names Susannah Spellman, ex-Booz Allen Hamilton, as executive director of U.S. Unified Community Anchor Network.

Q2 media results (compared to year-ago quarter): Scripps Networks Interactive sales rose 13 percent to $601 million from the year-ago quarter. Revenue at the cable programmer’s Cooking Channel and DIY Network had “very strong double digit growth both in viewership and in revenues,” Chairman Kenneth Lowe said in an earnings release (http://xrl.us/bni6hf). “We set a company record this year for advance advertising sales and reached an important distribution agreement that will make our content easily and widely accessible to millions of consumers on tablets and other mobile platforms.” Income from continuing operations rose 6.8 percent to $142 million. Scripps shares closed up 4.5 percent to $56.17 on Thursday. ... WWE sales were little changed at $141.6 million as operating income fell 6.7 percent to $19.6 million. There were “expenses incurred in conjunction with our potential network,” the cable programmer said (http://xrl.us/bni6hu). ... Radio One sales rose 9.1 percent to $105.9 million “giving effect to the consolidation of TV One,” and “core radio revenue” rose 6.5 percent, the company said (http://xrl.us/bm55g3). Cash flow from the TV One cable network and from radio stations rose 19 percent to $41.4 million, and profit fell 57 percent to $42.7 million.

Fisher Communications promotes Jenny Kuglin to Fisher Interactive Network general manager … Martha Stewart Living hires Patricia DiPette, ex-Elie Tahari Ltd., as senior vice president-licensing … Lobbyist Registrations: SAG-AFTRA, representing itself, effective April 1.