PEOPLE

By Mike Demenchuk -- Multichannel News, 10/24/2011 12:01:00 AM

AMC NETWORKS

Rob Doodian was named executive vice president, human resources, at AMC Networks. He was senior vice president, corporate human resources at Cablevision Systems, from which AMC was spun off earlier this year.

BRAVO

Suejin Yang was named vice president, Bravo Digital Media. She comes from MTV Networks, where she was VP, product development for MTV and VH1 Digital.

CINEFLIX

Independent producer and distributor Cineflix Media has named Lisa Levenson executive vice president, programming. She comes from Next Entertainment, where she served as executive producer on 14 cycles of The Bachelor and The Bachelorette, among other shows.

COX

Asheesh Saksena has joined Cox Communications as executive vice president, chief strategy officer. He comes from Time Warner Cable, where he was deputy chief strategy officer and senior VP, corporate strategy.

Also, Rob Smallwood has joined Cox as vice president, enterprise development. He comes from Microsoft, where he was Communication & Media Sector leader, premier services.

CSN

Rob Carlin has joined Comcast SportsNet Mid-Atlantic as a TV anchor and reporter. He comes from MSG, where he hosted New York Islanders pre- and post-game coverage.

GOLF

Krista Wakefield has joined the Golf Channel as executive projects manager. She comes from the PGA Tour, where she was an event planner in customer relations.

Also, Jennifer Ruhe was tapped as an associate producer/ editor for Golf’s HUB division. She had been a content editor at ESPN, working on such programs as SportsCenter, NFL Live and NASCAR Now.

Andre Veenhuis joined Golf as a broadcast IT systems engineer, from ESPN Regional Television.

And Golf added Bryan Harden as senior producer, creative services. He was director, video services for the National Basketball Association’s New Orleans Hornets.

GSN

Stephen Croncota has joined GSN as executive vice president, chief marketing officer. He was senior VP, marketing at E! Entertainment Television.

MEGATV

Carlos Herrera has been elevated to regional sales manager at SBS Television’s MegaTV. He had been a sales manager in the infomercial sales department.

MSLO

Jeanne Meyer has joined Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia as senior vice presidnet, communications. She was executive VP, corporate communications at Current Media.

N.S. BIENSTOCK

Talent agency N.S. Bienstock has added a pair of agents to its International Reality Television and New Media Packaging Division: Ra Kumar and Liza Zeff. Kumar was an agent at APA, Kaplan Stahler and Paradigm. Zeff was executive producer and GM of ABC News Productions and Lincoln Square Productions.

THEPLATFORM

Michael Horwitz was named vice president of engineering at Comcast’s thePlatform unit. He was senior director, engineering, Comcast Converged Products.

Also, Tina Santos was tapped as in-house general counsel at thePlatform. She was general counsel at Stream- Serve, a software firm based in London.

SPORTVISION

Joe Miller was named vice president, engineering, at Sportvision, based in the company’s Mountain View, Calif., facility. He comes from Linden Research, where he was VP, platform and technology development.

TWC

Piper Walker has joined The Weather Channel Cos. as vice president, inside sales. She comes from SuperMedia, where she was general sales manager.

DID YOU KNOW? Lisa Levenson was executive producer of High School Reunion, The Real Gilligan’s Island and Trista and Ryan’s Wedding.

DID YOU KNOW? During Joe Miller’s tenure at Second Life publisher Linden Research, the virtual world grew from 180,000 users to 24 million users worldwide.