PEOPLE

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.