TV One Names VP, Creative Services

Scott Perkins, design director for CNN, joined TV One in the newly created post of vice president, creative services.

Perkins will oversee branding for the Silver Spring, Md.-based African American-targeted cable network, including on-air, off-air, online, trade and print marketing.

Before joining CNN, Perkins was design director for BET and held the same post at ad agencies before that.

TV One launched in January 2004 and currently boasts almost 43 million households served.

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Contributing editor John Eggerton has been an editor and/or writer on media regulation, legislation and policy for over four decades, including covering the FCC, FTC, Congress, the major media trade associations, and the federal courts. In addition to Multichannel News and Broadcasting + Cable, his work has appeared in Radio World, TV Technology, TV Fax, This Week in Consumer Electronics, Variety and the Encyclopedia Britannica.