News Corp. Chief Digital Officer Jonathan Miller to leave at end of September as company moves toward proposed separation into two … Media General promotes to vice president: Marilyn Hammond for broadcast sales and marketing, and Andrew Lobred, digital media … Fisher Communications promotes Janene Drafs to vice president, general manager-Seattle stations, effective Sept. 1, replacing Senior Vice President and General Manager Jim Clayton, retiring, who will be senior adviser to company focused on special projects.
American Enterprise Institute names Jeffrey Eisenach, Navigant Economics, visiting scholar to work on communications and information technology policy … Media General CEO and President Marshall Morton retiring at year’s end, Vice President George Mahoney will succeed him effective Jan. 1; in interim adds chief operating officer title … NBCUniversal’s Bravo Media promotes Aimee Viles to senior vice president-emerging media.
Tango Networks hires Brenda Boehm, ex-Cisco, as president and CEO; Craig Freeman, ex-Genband, as vice president of sales-Americas … Cox Communications promotes Vince Groff to general manager-Cox Home Security … iNovo Broadband hires Michael Harney, ex-Cisco, as CEO … Bounce TV hires Billy Hall, ex-Turner Entertainment Networks, as executive vice president-programming and production, new position … Multimedia over Coax Alliance promotes Rob Gelphman to vice president, marketing and member relations, new post … Outdoor Channel appoints Lorey Zlotnick, ex-News Corp’s Fuel TV, senior vice president-marketing … Lobbyist Registrations: Motorola Solutions, Blank Rome Government Relations, effective July 1 … LightSquared promotes Doug Smith to chairman and CEO … Golf Channel hires David Schaefer, ex-Discovery Communications, as vice president-communications, new position.
Level 3 Communications began content delivery network services in Latin America. That gives businesses, government and multimedia content providers a fast and reliable way to deliver their content in the region, the provider of CDN and Internet backbone services said Tuesday. “All indicators suggest the Latin American CDN market is poised for high growth over the next five-year period,” Frost & Sullivan analyst Dan Rayburn said in a news release issued by Level 3. “Applications such as over-the-top video and mobile video are still in the early stage of adoption, which are likely to substantially increase in usage as broadband infrastructure across the continent improves and the transactional mechanisms to purchase content-based services are more widely implemented” (http://xrl.us/bnmome).
Fox Broadcasting promotes Kevin Reilly to chairman-entertainment … Pacifica Foundation names Chairman Summer Reese interim executive director, replacing Arlene Englehardt while search for new head occurs … Univision News hires Keith Summa, ex-CBS News, as vice president-news partnerships.
Harris Corp. adds Peter Chiarelli, ex-U.S. Army, to board … Syska Hennessy Group hires Clint Moreno, ex-Environmental Systems Design, for information and communication technology practice.
Univision Communications hires Keith Turner, ex-NFL, as president-advertising sales and marketing, replacing David Lawenda … PlumGrid hires Lele Nardin, ex-Ericsson Silicon Valley, as vice president-engineering … Nexstar Broadcasting hires Leo Henning, ex-Barrington Broadcasting Group, as vice president-general manager of KOZL-TV Springfield, Mo., and overseeing Mission Broadcasting’s KOLR-TV … Lobbyist Registrations: LightSquared, DLA Piper, effective July 9 … Facebook, Patton Boggs, effective July 1 … Radio Music License Committee, Gibson Group, effective Aug. 1 … Cavalier Wireless, Fritts Group, effective Aug. 7.
Arbitron hires Debra Delman, ex-NPR, as executive vice president-finance and chief financial officer, effective Aug. 28, succeeding interim CFO Sean Creamer … NPR hires Monique Hanson, YMCA of the USA, as head fundraiser and chief development officer, effective in early October … News Corp.’s Fox Networks Group President and Chief Operating Officer David Haslingden stepping down at end of year … NAB Education Foundation new board members: Jeff Simpson, Bonneville International; Deborah Thomas, Cox Media Group; Andrea Berry, Fox Networks; and Bob Okun, O Team … IFC promotes Marie Moore to senior vice president-public relations.
Public Knowledge hires Christopher Lewis, ex-FCC Office of Legislative Affairs, as vice president-government affairs, replacing Ernesto Falcon, who remains as special adviser; Bartees Cox, ex-Free Press, named communications associate … CEA promotes Glenda MacMullin to chief operating officer … Petrizzo Bond hires Adam Rak, ex-TechAmerica, as senior vice president in Silicon Valley office, and lobbying firm will work for eBay … Long Range Systems hires Skip Cass, ex-Belo Corp. Internet and broadcast-TV executive, as president-CEO, succeeding Ken Lovegreen, who becomes chief technology officer … Coinstar promotes Carole McCluskey to chief technology officer … NBCUniversal’s Oxygen Media hires Harleen Kahlon, ex-Bundle Corp., as senior vice president-digital … Sundance Channel hires as vice presidents for marketing department: Raymond Dooley, ex-Viacom Media Networks, consumer marketing, and Evan Fleischer, ex-MEC Entertainment, integrated marketing and branded entertainment … Cox Enterprises promotes Katherine Decker to vice president-treasurer.
LIN Media hires Jamie Elden, ex-Alloy Media, as senior vice president-sales for RMM digital business … Gannett hires Eric Land, ex-Walkabout Air Aviation, as president and general manager of WTLV/WJXX Jacksonville, Fla.