Cablevision

Victoria Salhus
was named senior vice president and deputy general counsel Cablevision Systems Corp. Salhus will continue to provide legal counsel to senior management on major corporate and securities transactions for the company and its subsidiaries. In addition, she will continue to oversee Cablevision's securities regulatory filings.

C-COR.net

James Carnes
was elected to the board of directors of C-COR.net Corp. Carnes is the recently retired president and CEO of the Sarnoff Corp.

Charter

Charter Communications Inc. elevated Melinda Jeffries
to corporate vice president of marketing services. In her new position, Jeffries will oversee all corporate marketing campaigns.

CNN

CNN Productions appointed Kathy Slobogin
managing editor of CNN Presents. Slobogin will oversee all aspects of the series.

Comcast

Comcast Cable Communications Inc. promoted Keith Taub
to regional vice president of finance and administration for New Jersey. Taub will oversee the financial management of Comcast operations in the Garden State.

CTAM

Mindy Herman
was elected to the Cable & Telecommuni-cations Association for Marketing Educational Foundation's 22-member board of directors. Herman is president and CEO of E! Networks.

Discovery

Dan Salerno
was tapped as vice president of program planning for Discovery Networks U.S. Salerno will help direct programming content and strategic opportunities across all of Discovery's U.S. networks and manage programming partnerships.

Hallmark Channel

Hallmark Channel appointed Elizabeth Hillman
and Pam Slay
to head its two new publicity departments. Hillman, formerly of National Geographic, was named vice president of cor-porate communications. Slay, previously Hallmark Channel's executive director of communications and publicity, was tapped as VP of network program publicity.

MTV

MTV: Music Television promoted Kevin Mackall
to senior vice president of on-air promotions for MTV and MTV2. Mackall will oversee all on-air promotion for MTV and MTV2, working directly with the channel's marketing, pro-social and programming departments.

NY WICT

The New York chapter of Women in Cable and Telecommunications announced its newly elected officers and board members for 2003: new chapter president, Jeannine Sommer
of Carlsen Resources; chapter co-vice presidents Cheryl Marks
of Sesame Workshop and Marie Svet
of World Wrestling Entertainment Inc.; treasurer, Lori Greenwood
of National Cable Communications; secretary Kelly Boyd
of Sci-Fi Channel; and immediate past president, Sue Panzer
of Lifetime Television. The organization also named membership co-chairs: Ilise Benun
of Guarino Woodman Advertising and Melani Griffith
of AMC Networks.

New board members include: Gretchen Beidl
of Oxygen; Sherry Brennan
of Cablevision Systems Corp.; Sarah Cotsen
of Home Box Office; Nick Febrizio
of A&E Television Networks; Lorraine Hack-Newman
of Russell Reynolds Associates; Liz Kressel
a media consultant; Dana Levitt
of Reed Business Information; Vincent McDonald
of Discovery Communications Inc.; Ellen Schned
of Court TV; Cindy Swensen
of Start Button LLC; and Mark Zelenz
of Bloomberg Television.

Directors at Large include: Ann Hart
of The Weather Channel; Susan Miller
of Turner Broadcasting System Inc.; Colleen Quinn
of Insight Communications Co.; Michelle Rice
of In Demand LLC; and Patricia Wilber
of ABC Cable Networks Group.

Promax&BDA

Jim Chabin
was named CEO of Promax&BDA. This is Chabin's second stint at the helm of the Los Angeles-based association of promotion, marketing and design professionals. He held the position from 1992 to 1999. He succeeds Glynn Brailsford, who now will become chief creative officer at Promax.

TBS

As part of the expansion of its corporate research unit, Turner Broadcasting System Inc. promoted Nancy Lucas
to corporate vice president of strategic research and audience analysis. Robin Thomas
was promoted to Lucas's former position of VP of Research for TBS Superstation and Turner South. Greg Gajus
assumed the position of VP of research. And Fred Spring
was named VP of research for Turner Network Television and Turner Classic Movies.

Techtv

Greg Brannan
was appointed senior vice president of programming for Techtv. Brannan will head Techtv's domestic and international programming efforts. Previously, Brannan oversaw programming at E! Networks.

Telecordia

Telcordia Technologies Inc. appointed Teresa Vega
corporate vice president and group president for mobility, cable and emerging markets. Vega most recently served as senior vice president and chief marketing officer for Lucent Technologies.

Hotelvision

Hotelevision Inc. hired Deidra Didion
as account manager in its New York office. Didion will be responsible for cultivating new client relationships and working with existing advertisers as part of the Hotelevision's advertising sales effort. She previously served as sales associate for Discovery Communications Inc.

AvatarLabs

Rex Cook
was named executive creative director of AvatarLabs, a full-service motion graphics and editorial design studio. AvatarLabs' clients include CBS Television, The Walt Disney Co., and The Discovery Channel.

Fox News Channel

Former MSNBC anchor Gregg Jarrett
joined FOX News Channel as news anchor.

Lippen Group

The Lippin Group promoted Jennifer Price
to executive vice president. In this new position Price will continue to spearhead publicity campaigns for high-profile award shows, consumer products, special events, musicians and television series.

PBS

The Public Broadcasting Service promoted Deron Triff
to the newly created position of vice president of digital ventures. In his new role, Triff will be charged with identifying and pursuing digital television and interactive media opportunities, including on-demand strategies for digital video recorders, video-on-demand and digital channel plans. PBS also named Lea Sloan
vice president of media relations.

G4

Video game network G4 named Hubert Smith
vice president of business and legal affairs and Gil Breakman
VP of finance. Smith will be responsible for production, marketing, creative services, music, distribution and licensing-related deal making, and affiliate sales and general corporate business and legal affairs for G4. Breakman will oversee all aspects of finance, accounting, information technology and facilities for the company.

Next Level

Ken St. Cyr
joined Next Level Communications Inc. as senior vice president of operations. St. Cyr comes had been with Dell Computer Corp.

Next Level also added two new directors to its board: president and CEO of Hutchinson Telecommunications Inc. Walter Clay
and telecom veteran Alex Good.

C-SPAN

Steve Scully, senior executive producer and political editor for C-SPAN, was appointed the Amos B.Hostetter Chair, a joint chair between The Cable Center and Denver University. In this position, Scully will direct the development of curriculum and teach courses in the Distance Learning Program developed by the three partners and underwritten by cable pioneer Amos Hostetter.