PEOPLE

ADELPHIA/STV

Jim Grillo, president of the Denver-based Cricket Group,
has joined the boards of Adelphia Comunicações, S.A.
and STV Comunicações, S.A. in Brazil. He had been interim
CEO of the companies.

COMCAST SPOTLIGHT

Caryn Manning has joined Comcast Spotlight in Grand
Rapids, Mich., as local sales manager. She comes from
the State Media Co. in Columbia, S.C., where she was VP,
advertising sales.

CSN CHICAGO

Comcast SportsNet Chicago has elevated Greg Bowman
to vice president of programming from senior director,
programming and Joyce Brewer to vice president,
finance and human resources from senior director, finance and human resources.

DISCOVERY CHANNEL

Camilla Carpenter was upped to senior vice president,
strategy and network operations, at Discovery Channel.
She had been VP, strategy and network operations.

FOX

Nicole A. Bernard has advanced to senior vice president,
audience strategy at The Fox Group. She had
been senior vice president, broadcast standards and
practices.

Also, Elizabeth Casey was promoted to executive
vice president, standards and practices at Fox Networks
Group. She had been senior VP, business and
legal affairs/broadcast standards and practices at Fox
Cable Networks.

GRAVITY

Eric Bauer has joined creative content and brand communications
firm Gravity as creative director.

IN DEMAND

Emilio Nunez was promoted to senior vice president,
movies and original programming at In Demand. He
had formerly served as VP, movies and original programming.

INSIGHT

Lisa Powers has been promoted to vice president,
operational finance at Insight Communications. She
previously served as regional director, business operations.

Also, Tracy Elliot was upped to director, programming
and video services at Insight. She had been senior
manager.

Additionally, Insight advanced Ishmel Goodrum to senior
vice president, network operations center; Rocco Laurenzano
to senior vice president, project management and
Bam Liem to senior vice president, advanced services engineering,
all from VP.

INVISION

Advertising planning and sales solution provider Invision
has named Jennifer New as vice president, product
management. She comes from Sintec Media, where she
was senior product engineer.

Also, Charlane Hemphill has joined Invision as senior
director, product management. She comes from Turner
Broadcasting System.

Linda Hodgkins has joined Invision as account director,
client service. She had been director, professional services
at VCI Solutions.

And Marcy Vincent has joined Invision as senior product
owner. She was manager, sales systems at Th e Weather
Channel.

PWC

Theodore (Ted) Garcia has joined Pricewaterhouse-
Coopers’ Entertainment, Media and Communications
practice as managing director. He comes from Universal
Studios/Universal Music Group.

RENTRAK

Sherri Lee has joined Rentrak as product manager of its
TV Essen tials service.

SENCORE

Signal transmission and video-delivery solutions
provider Sencore has advanced Jeff Briden to vice
president, product management and customer satisfaction.

DID YOU KNOW? Caryn Manning’s 24-year newspaper
ad career includes a stint as VP of advertising
at Detroit Newspapers.

DID YOU KNOW? Jeff Briden holds the patent for
the method of 8-VSB signal generation used in
the world’s first portable HDTV RF stream player.