Fates & Fortunes

WLNY Riverhead, N.Y., has promoted Richard Rose, anchor, News 55 Live at 11, to news director.

At Cablevision, Bethpage, N.Y.: Kathleen Mayo, senior VP, consumer telecommunications services, promoted to executive VP; Patricia Gottesman, senior VP, consumer product management and marketing, appointed executive VP, product management and marketing.

At Comcast: Charisse R. Lillie, partner, Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll, Philadelphia, joins Comcast Corp., Philadelphia, as VP, human resources and senior VP, human resources, Comcast Cable; Bill Adams, VP, manufacturing, R.R. Donnelley, Chicago, named VP, public affairs, Comcast Cable Midwest division, Detroit; David Sanders, director, technical operations, Nashville system, appointed general manager, Tri-State System, East Tennessee.

Melani Griffith, account executive, advertising sales, Fox Cable Networks, New York, appointed VP, programming, Insight Communications, New York.

At Bright House Networks: Robert (Bob) McCann, VP/general manager, Detroit division, promoted to president; Joe Schoenstein, VP/general manager, Bakersfield division, promoted to president.

Eleo Hensleigh, executive VP, worldwide brand strategy, Disney-ABC Cable Networks Group, Los Angeles, promoted to chief marketing officer and executive VP, marketing and brand strategies, Disney-ABC Television Group.

Andy Lemaire, VP/controller, A&E Television Networks, New York, promoted to senior VP/controller.

Laura Michalchyshyn, senior VP, dramatic programming, Alliance Atlantis Communications, Toronto, named executive VP, programming and marketing, Sundance Channel, New York.

Christopher Raleigh, VP, advertising sales, Tech TV, New York, named senior VP, advertising sales, GSN, New York.

Derek Koenig, VP, brand advertising, America Online, Dulles, Va., named senior VP, marketing, U.S. division, Discovery Communications Inc., Silver Spring, Md.

Jeff Gralnick, most recently consultant, NBC News, New York, named Internet and technology consultant to Neal Shapiro, NBC News.

At The NBC Agency Print Advertising department: promoted in Burbank, Calif.: Nancy McDyer, executive account director, to VP, print advertising account services; David Pai-Ritchie, executive creative director, to VP/creative director, print and digital design; Steve Kemp, executive creative director, copy, print advertising, named VP/creative director, advertising; promoted in New York: Bari Cohen, co-creative director, to executive creative director, design; Stan Sousa, co-creative director, to executive creative director, advertising.

Chris Knowles, writer/producer, The Fox Report, with Shepard Smith, Fox News Channel, New York, promoted to weathercaster.

At WCBS New York: Alex Benes, freelance producer, presidential conventions and election, named executive producer, political and investigative reporting for the station; Ti-Hua Chang, reporter, WNBC New York, returns as a reporter.

Kristine Johnson, weeknight news anchor/reporter, WPRI/WNAC Providence, R.I., joins MSNBC, Secaucus, N.J., as anchor.

Mary McEvilly-Hernandez, director, sales, Chicago stations, Univision Radio, promoted to VP/general manager, Univision Radio, Phoenix stations.

Bennett Kleinberg, senior counsel, Goodman Media International Inc., New York, named VP.

Linda E. LaVigne, manager, research, BBC America, Silver Spring, Md., named director, research, Cable & Telecommunications Association for Marketing, Arlington, Va.