Fates & Fortunes
By Staff -- Broadcasting & Cable, 9/9/2007 8:00:00 PM
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Broadcast
Anne Martin, national sales manager, WNBC New York, has been promoted to VP, marketing and digital sales. Also at WNBC, Bob Harnaga, account manager, has been promoted to VP, sales.
Doug Kammerer, meteorologist, WCAU Philadelphia, has joined KYW Philadelphia as meteorologist.
Amy Pyrz, regional business development manager, Monster.com, has joined KTVT and KTXA Dallas as digital media manager.
Cable
Michelle Parker, executive director of business affairs, programming, Starz Entertainment, has been promoted to VP, business and legal affairs, programming.
Bridget Whalen, director of development, National Geographic Channel, has been promoted to executive director of development. Also at NGC, Whit Higgins, manager of development, has been promoted to director of development and co-production. Banafsheh Kamali Parsee, manager, business and legal affairs, has been promoted to director of business operations. Greg Larvenz, VP of engineering and systems design, Discovery Communications, has joined NGC as chief engineer, operations. Matthew Zymet, programming director, AOL Small Business Division, has joined NGC as director of digital media content.
Susan Nathan, senior VP, director of media knowledge, Universal McCann/McCann Erickson, has joined Turner Broadcasting System as VP of media currency.
Theresa Pepe Falcone, director of ad sales & affiliate sales, A&E Television Networks, has joined Current TV as VP of ad sales research.
Jim Dettman, VP of sales and affiliate marketing, eastern region, Hustler TV, has been promoted to senior VP of sales, marketing and programming.
Phyllis Elliott, director of marketing, Comcast of Central Arkansas, has joined Comcast Sports Southeast as director of marketing.
Programming
Randy Rylander, manager of scheduling, National Geographic Channel, has been promoted to director of programming and scheduling.
Chris Parnell, director of development for Sony Pictures Television, has been promoted to VP of development.
Steve Craddock, VP and executive producer, FSN South and SportSouth, has joined Speed as senior VP of programming.
Journalism
Chip Reid, Capitol Hill correspondent, NBC News, has joined CBS News as Capitol Hill correspondent. Also at CBS News, Sharyl Attkisson, Capitol Hill correspondent, has been named investigative correspondent.
Nikole Killion, anchor and reporter, WJLA Washington, has joined Hearst-Argyle television as a reporter.
Internet marketing/advertising/pr
Bruce Kallner, VP of sales, marketing and business development, NBC-Universal Television Stations Group, has been promoted to senior VP, sales and marketing. Also at NBCU TV Stations, Bill LeBlanc, senior director of sales, has been promoted to VP of sales, Northeast national sales office.
Richard Calacci, VP of primetime sales, CBS, has been named senior VP of sales, CBS Interactive. Also at CBS Interactive, Kenneth Lagana, VP of east coast sales and network integration, has been promoted to senior VP of sales. Kevin Menard, VP of sales for Last.fm, has been named senior VP of sales.
Jerry Arias, manager, affiliate sales and marketing, Fox Cable Networks, has joined The Weather Channel as affiliate marketing director.
Jim Tremblay, account executive, FX and National Geographic Channel, has been promoted to VP of advertising sales, Fox Reality Channel.
Former Fresno TV Exec Dead
Joseph C. Drilling, former television executive who was a top architect of Retlaw Broadcasting owned by the Walt Disney family, died Sept 1. He was 85. Drilling spent much of his career in Fresno, Calif., where he began at KARM-AM. Later, as a production manager, he helped put KMJ-TV (now KSEE) on the air in Fresno. In 1953, he also was hired to put Fresno's KJEO-TV (now KGPE) on the air. In 1968, when Drilling, then in Los Angeles, began Retlaw, its first acquisition was KJEO, allowing Drilling to return to the city he loved.
Drilling served stints as ABC Affiliate Board Chairman and chairman of the California Broadcasters Association (which named him broadcaster of the year in 1991), and as a member of the National Association of Broadcasters board.
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