- MANAGEMENT - December 1, 1997...
Bill Freeman has been appointed vice president and general manager of ESPN Grill in Burbank, Calif. He was most recently with DAKA International Inc. specialty food retail company ......
- Fates& Fortunes
Broadcast TV M.J. "Bob" Groothand, VP/director, marketing and sales, WBEK-TV Augusta, Ga., joins KPTH(TV) Sioux City, Iowa, as GM. Dale A. Remy , VP, affiliate relations, Paxson Communications, West Palm Beach, Fla., named GM, South Texas cluster, Eagle Creek Broadcasting LLC, Corpus Christi. Cable TV At Insight Communications: John W....
- Fates & Fortunes
Broadcast TV Rebecca S. Campbell , VP, programming, WPVI-TV Philadelphia, promoted to president and general manager. Mark Gordon , general sales manager, KDEB-TV/KOLR-TV Springfield, Miss., named VP/GM, KDEB-TV, with oversight of KOLR-TV. Dr. Deborah Cross MacFarlane , president/CEO, Per Scholas Inc., Bronx, N.Y., has joined WNET(TV) Newark, N.J., as director ......
- Executive Turntable
RECORD COMPANIES. Joe Hecht is appointed VP of crossover promotion at Elektra Entertainment Group in New York. He was VP of crossover promotion at Arista Records.
- Fates & Fortunes
Cable TV TOM PIERCE, marketing director, Comcast Cable, North Puget Sound, Wash., named VP, marketing and sales, Seattle. Bruce Thomas , executive VP, Yankees Entertainment and Sports network, New York, named general sales manager, Monterey Bay, Calif., market, Comcast Spotlight, San Francisco. Programming Michael Cascio , executive VP/general manager, Animal ......
- Executive Turntable
RECORD COMPANIES. Rocket Records in New York names Derek Mackillop executive VP/GM. He was creative manager at John Reid ......
- International Newsline...
Claude Nobs, managing director of Warner Music Switzerland, has retired after 29 years with Warner in Europe. Nobs, who is also the founder/organizer of the Montreux Jazz Festival, joined the original WEA International company in 1972 with responsibility for the European artist relations department. He became managing director of European ......