PERSONALS - Brief Article

Television Digest with Consumer Electronics, June 26, 2000

Kevin Brockman named senior vp-entertainment communications, ABC TV Network... Gil Schwartz promoted to exec. vp- communications, CBS TV... ABC Radio Networks promotions: Traug Keller to pres., Darryl Brown to exec. vp-gen. mgr., Jennifer Purtan to senior vp-sales... Wesley Jackson ex-E.W. Scripps, named vp-sales, Belo Interactive... Merry Ewing promoted to gen. mgr., WSTR-TV Cincinnati.

Barry Baker resigns as pres.-CEO, USA Networks... Glenn Oakley promoted to senior vp- corporate strategy and international, Showtime Networks... Kristin Peace advanced to vp- programming, Game Show Network... John Pascarelli promoted to senior vp-mktg.& consumer services, Mediacom Communications.

Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE) elections: James Kuhns, Terayon Communications Systems, as chmn.; Wes Burton, MediaOne, eastern vice chmn.; William Davis, Communications Supply Group, western vice chmn.; Keith Hayes, MediaOne, secy; Don Shackelford, Time Warner Cable, treas.; Ron Haranac, Cisco Systems, named to exec. committee.

MPAA changes: William Baker resigns as pres.-CEO, with Chmn. Jack Valenti assuming his duties; Simon Barsky promoted to exec. vp & co-COO; Bill Murray advanced to exec. vp & co-COO... Doug Moreland promoted to senior vp-pre-development, Walt Disney Imagineering.

Larry Irving, ex-NTIA dir., elected to board, WorldGate Communications... Michael O'Hara appointed senior vp-business development, Central and S. America, eSAT... Ron Blessing named dir.-business development, Convergent Media Systems.

Marsha MacBride is resigning as FCC Comr. Powell's legal adviser-mass media & cable, to become Walt Disney Co. vp-govt. relations in Washington... Rick Chessen, former legal adviser to FCC Comr. Tristani, named vp-policy, RespondTV... Gerald Faulhaber, prof. at U. of Pa.'s Wharton School, becomes FCC chief economist July 1, succeeding Howard Shelanski who returns to U. of Cal.-Berkeley.