Viacom promotes Tom Gorke to executive vice president-sales and business development, Viacom Media Networks and BET Networks, new position ... 21st Century Fox promotes Missy Halperin to executive vice president-talent relations, Fox Broadcasting Co. ... McBee Strategic Consulting hires Clare Adams, ex-Intel Security, as director-advocacy group, working on cybersecurity ... Disney hires Kary McHoul, ex-consultant to Fine Bros., as senior vice president-programming & development unscripted, ABC Family, new position ... Kathleen Kirby, Wiley Rein, elected to American Bar Association Forum on Communications Law governing board ... FCC Intergovernmental Advisory Committee adds North Dakota State Rep. Blair Thoreson, a Republican, and Karen Jackson, Virginia secretary of technology.

Interactive Advertising Bureau promotes Michael Theodore to senior vice president-general manager, IAB Education Foundation, and IAB board elects David Morris, CBS Interactive, chairman, succeeding Vivek Shah, Ziff Davis; Lauren Wiener, Tremor Video, named vice chair; and also to board: Michael Barrett, Millennial Media, Paul Caine, Bloomberg Media, Scott Howe, Acxiom, Meredith Kopit Levien, New York Times Co., and Harold Morgenstern, Discovery Communications ... Lobbyist registrations: Charter Communications, Fierce Government Relations, effective Jan. 15 ... Google, Washington Technology Project, effective Dec. 12 ... Sprint, The Raben Group, effective Dec. 1.