FCC hires Matthew Duchesne, ex-U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, as chief, Office of Native Affairs and Policy; acting Chief Lyle Ishida remains at the agency ... FCC members appoint Commissioner Brendan Carr to Federal-State Joint Board on Universal Service and Federal-State Joint Board on Jurisdictional Separations (see 1711130035); Carr succeeds FCC Chairman Ajit Pai, vacating those positions; Carr and Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel join Federal-State Joint Conference on Advanced Services because of their commission positions ... TiVo board elects Enrique Rodriguez, ex-AT&T Entertainment Group, president-CEO and names him to the board; he succeeds Thomas Carson, retiring and leaving the board, staying as adviser through Q1.

AT&T hires from PubMatic Kirk McDonald as chief marketing officer, advertising and analytics company begun "in anticipation of the closing of the Time Warner merger" (see 1711130006) ... Mark Popovich, ex-Amkor Technology, hired as CEO of 3D Glass Solutions, supplier of RF and IoT hardware components, replacing founder Jeb Flemming, who will continue as chief technology officer and board member ... E.W. Scripps moves up Lisa Knutson to executive vice president-chief financial officer; Knutson was interim CFO since Tim Wesolowski left (see 1708230056 and 1710040022); and company promotes Controller and Treasurer Doug Lyons to also be senior vice president ... Discovery Communications puts all Animal Planet content under Susanna Dinnage, promoted to global president, Animal Planet; General Manager Patrice Andrews leaving the company.

MGM taps Michael Wright, ex-Amblin Partners, as president-Epix, effective Dec. 4 ... Meredith Corp. moves Vice President Chuck Poduska to that role and general manager, KCTV and KSMO-TV both in Kansas City, Missouri ... Zayo names Vodafone alumnus Phil Mottram chief revenue officer and expands post of Annette Murphy to managing director-Europe ... Lobbyist registrations: Unmanned aircraft systems applications firm Compass Systems, Bramer Group, effective Nov. 8 ... Telemedicine firm Call9, Horizon Government Affairs, effective Sept. 20.