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By MCN Staff -- Multichannel News, 3/1/2010 10:47:00 AM

COMCAST
Comcast’s Southern Division has elevated Jeff Powell to vice president, sales and marketing, from senior director, outbound sales.
Also, Comcast’s Southern division has upped Brian Kelleher to director, competitive marketing from director, business intelligence.
And Scott Hansen was named vice president of commercial business services, Comcast West Division. He comes from LightEdge Solutions, where he was VP, sales.

COMSOUTH
Hawkinsville, Ga.-based ComSouth has added Bobby Barnes as local manager, Debra Wells as customer-service representative and Larry Smiddle as field technician of its newly acquired Fort Valley, Ga. system. All three were with Valley Cable TV, which was purchased by ComSouth.

COX
Gary McCollum was elevated to senior vice president, general manager of Cox Communications Virginia. He had been senior VP, GM of Cox’s Southern Virginia operations.

ITV STUDIOS
ITV Studios has named Noel Hedges as Los Angeles-based senior vice president, sales and acquisitions, the Americas. He had been head of drama and comedy at ITVS.

KATZ
Katz Media Group in New York has elevated Joe Brewer to senior vice president, chief information officer from senior VP, information- technology services.

MTV NETWORKS
Suzanne McDonnell was elevated to senior vice president of MTV Networks’ Digital Fusion unit. Also, Heather Hopkins has added senior vice president, marketing and sales development duties to her current role as general manager of the Tribes vertical ad network.

OUTDOOR CHANNEL
Greg Harrigan was elevated to executive vice president, advertising sales at Outdoor Channel, from senior VP.

RENEGADE
Hunt Valley, Md.-based marketing communications agency Renegade has named Chris Beutler as chief vision officer, from executive creative director.

REPLIN, RHOADES & ROPER
Denver-based entertainment and intellectual- property law firm Replin & Rhoades has named Robert St. John Roper as managing partner, from Launch Pad Media Advisers. The firm wil be renamed Replin, Rhoades & Roper.

SES
Andrew Browne was named chief financial officer of global satellite firm SES. He is the former CFO of Intelsat/New Skies Satellites.

SWIRE
Marketing communications agency Swire has added Chris Palmisano as vice president, client solutions, based in New York. He comes from Young & Rubicam, where he was senior VP.

YES NETWORK
Jack Curry has joined the YES Network as studio analyst, program contributor and Web site columnist. He was national baseball writer for The New York Times.