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AT&T: Amos Hostetter has been elected to the company's board of directors. He will become non-executive chairman of the company's broadband and Internet services unit upon completion of the pending merger with MediaOne. He is the former CEO of MediaOne, which was formerly Continental Cablevision, which he co-founded in 1963. Hostetter was chairman/CEO of Continental until its merger into MediaOne Group in 1996. He resigned from MediaOne in 1997, and is currently chairman of Pilot House Associates LLC. Hostetter was chairman of the National Cable Television Assn. and served on its board. He was also a founding member and past chairman of the Cable Satellite Public Affairs Network (C-Span) and currently on its board and executive committee. He was a director of the Corp. for Public Television and is a former board member of the Children's Television Workshop.

COX COMMUNICATIONS: Annette Heaton has been promoted from local sales manager to general sales manager for CableRep Advertising in Omaha, Neb. Prior to joining CableRep in 1991, she was the sales coordinator for Professional Media in Omaha. CableRep is the advertising sales division of the company. David Livengood has been named director-broadband process improvement in San Diego. He joined Cox in 1986 as director-sales and telemarketing in San Diego, and since 1996, was director of marketing for data products in Atlanta. He had also been director-customer care operations and business telephone for SBC CableComms in the United Kingdom.

DISCOVERY: Chris Moseley, SVP-advertising and promotion, delivered the commencement address and has received an honorary doctorate of humane letters from the Sage Colleges in Troy, N.Y. The theme of Moseley's address was "marketing yourself as a personal brand." The Sage Colleges include Russell Sage College, Sage Evening College, Sage Junior College of Albany and Sage Graduate School. Moseley was selected as one of Advertising Age's Top 100 Marketers in 1995, and she received the National Cable Television Association's Vanguard Award for marketing in 1996. In June, she was honored with the Pinnacle Award, Promax's highest award, and inducted into that entertainment marketing association's hall of fame. Elizabeth Ross has been named director-Northern region, affiliate sales and marketing. She had been at Katz Media Inc. where she was an account executive. Prior to that, she was with the U. S. Air Force and currently is with the reserves as an intelligence officer and as a part-time news anchor at the Defense Intelligence Network at the Pentagon. Donna Thomas has been promoted from director-digital distribution to VP-digital distribution. She joined the network in 1992 and has risen through the ranks. She serves on the Atlantic Cable Show board of directors and the CTAM Mid-Atlantic Chapter board of directors. She had also serviced on the board of directors with the Pennsylvania Cable and Telecommunications Assn. Moji Adejuwon has been promoted from director-national accounts and network development for affiliate sales and marketing to VP-network development, affiliate sales and marketing. Prior to joining Discovery, she was director-new business development, international channels for Metro Goldwyn Mayer. From 1991-1996, she worked at the Walt Disney Company, and prior to that, was an assistant financial manager with J. Walter Thompson.

DISCOVERY HEALTH MEDIA: Linda Yu has been named VP/GM. She had been VP-acquisition and development at InteliHealth, a provider of consumer health information. Mark Foulon has been named director-business development, discoveryhealth.com. He joins the network from Potomac Partners Management Consulting, an e-commerce strategy firm specializing in Internet health. Both appointments are aimed at developing Discovery Health's vertical Internet portal and other interactive services. Kathy Quattrone has been named SVP-programming and production. She will be the chief editorial executive for the new company that launched Aug. 2. Prior to joining the network, she had been DVP-programming services at PBS. Quattrone began her broadcasting career at WNPB, a PBS TV station in Morgantown, W. Va., where she rose from production assistant to director of programming and production. She was also program director for PBS TV station WMFE in Orlando.

ESPN: The following were named to the network's 11th annual SportsFigures Scholarship: Northeast region, David Lofthus, Honeoye Falls-Lima High School, Honeye Falls, N.Y. and Katharine Shaughnessy, Garden City (N.Y.) High School. Southeast region, Rosemary Boner, Tucker (Ga.) High School and Ramon Partida, Colegio Marista High School, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico. North Central region, Amy Fuller, Mounds Park Academy, St. Paul, Minn. and James Harrington, Libertyville (Ill.) Community High School. South Central region, Beth Hamilton, Belton (Mo.) High School and Nicholas Sabin, DeSmet Jesuit High School, St. Louis, Mo. Rocky Mountain region, Nick Degenstein, Woodlands (Texas) High School and Sahadat Nurudeen, Friendswood (Texas) High School Texas. Western region, Amy Bei, Montgomery High School, Santa Rosa, Calif., and Adam Tenforde, Hanford High School, Richland, Wash. ESPN's SportsFigures is a weekly commercial-free series telecast throughout the school year on ESPN2 which teaches math and physics using sports themes and personalities. It is part of the industry-wide Cable in the Classroom initiative. The best male and female student-athlete from each region received a $2,500 grant to reward excellence in academics and athletics.

ENCORE: Mark G. Bauman has been promoted from EVP/COO to president/COO. Prior to joining the company in 1991, he was director of budgeting and planning for United Artist Entertainment.

FOX FAMILY CHANNEL: Karin Allen has joined the network as sales account executive in Detroit. Since 1987, she had been with Lifetime in Detroit where she had been an account executive and had also worked in marketing, sales and pricing and planning.

FOX KIDS: Bill Horvath has been named director-on-air promotion. He joined the network from Foote, Cone & Belding in New York where he had been a freelance producer and writer of on-air campaigns for Universal Studios in Florida. Prior to that, he was creative group head for Grey Entertainment in New York.

GAME SHOW: Scott Permutter has been named VP-affiliate sales. He had been VP for Rainbow Media's Much Music USA. Prior to joining the network in 1997, he was district manager for Encore Media Group.

GIST COMMUNICATIONS INC.: Paul Lewis has joined the company as VP-advertising sales. He was most recently with iVillage as VP-sales operations and prior to that, had been with Prodigy Services Co. He is a contributing author to the forthcoming Net Success and has served on the board of directors of the Internet Advertising Bureau.

GREAT AMERICAN COUNTRY: Jim Seifert has joined the company as national accounts manager. A 22-year veteran of TV and radio sales, he was most recently regional sales manager for KOLD-TV in Tucson. He had also been national sales manager at KUSA-TV in Denver and joined Katz Television in 1984 in their Denver, Chicago and San Francisco offices. He also worked in radio in Cincinnati and Albuquerque. Katie Benson has been named marketing/public relations specialist. Most recently, she had been client services coordinator/junior account executive for Russell, Karsh and Hagan Public Relations in Denver. During her tenure there, she was appointed to chair the public relations committee for the Colorado Governor's Council for Physical Fitness.

HGTV: Burton Jablin has been promoted from VP-programming to SVP-programming & production. Prior to that, he had been an executive producer at KTTV, a Fox station in Los Angeles. He had also been an executive producer in Chicago for CBS affiliate WBBM-TV.

IMEDIA CORP.: Stephen King has been named SVP-sales & marketing. He was most recently VP/GM at Video Telecom, a "start up" operation at Tektronix, a company where he had been for 14 years and was also VP-worldwide marketing. He helped develop new business for the company in Japan, Europe and the Middle East.

MTV NETWORKS: Nelson Benedico, VP-marketing and communications for MTV Latin America died July 19 in Miami of complications from AIDS. He was 34. Benedico joined MTV in 1993 to help launch its Latin America service.

PROMAX/BDA: Vince Manze, SVP-advertising and promotion, NBC Entertainment and Lee Minard, SVP-advertising and promotion at Pax Network, were recently presented with the Promax Pinnacle Award. Manze was appointed to his current position in 1992 and is responsible for all audience-marketing activities for NBC Entertainment, News and Sports. He joined NBC Entertainment in 1990 as VP-advertising and promotion, NBC West Coast. In 1995, he was awarded Promax's Marketing Maverick award as well as the Marketing Team of the Year Award, which he shared with John Miller, NBC's EVP-advertising and promotion and event planning. Minard has been with various TV stations around the country and was with WMAR-TV in Baltimore as director of creative services before joining Pax. Prior to that, he was at WCBS-TV in New York. In 1993, he earned the Promax Promotion Executive of the Year. He also garnered the NATPE Iris Award, three New York Emmy Awards and several awards in Colorado. The Pinnacle Award is given in recognition of those who have made significant contributions to their profession.

TVN: Michele Donaldson has been promoted from director-consumer marketing to VP-marketing and is based in Burbank, Calif. Prior to joining the network in 1998, she was VP-marketing for Direct Connect where she created a national infrastructure to distribute DirecTV into the home. She also worked for People's Choice TV from 1993-1996 where she was national director, marketing and programming. She also worked for CBS Inc. in Los Angeles and Viacom in New York.

USA NETWORKS: Doug Hamilton, CFO/SVP-administration, has resigned from the network. During his 14-year tenure, he was instrumental in the acquisition and launch of the SciFi Channel and in the start up of the network's foreign operations in Latin America and Europe. He will continue his responsibilities at the network through September. Prior to joining USA Networks, he had been with W.R. Grace and Co. where he worked in various positions in the consumer services and products, chemicals, restaurant and natural resources groups.

WICT: Ann Carlsen, CEO, Carlsen Resources was presented with the 1999 "Women of the Year Accolade" for her contribution to the cable and telecommunications industry in 1998, and for "raising the standards of the industry." Ann Montgomery, EVP-fulfillment services and operations, AT&T Broadband and Internet Services, was presented with the "Women to Watch Accolade" in recognition of her "demonstrated leadership potential, for exhibiting job excellence at the mid-to-senior-management level and her strong dedication to the cable and telecommunications industry."

WILKINSON, BARKER, KNAUER & QUINN, LLP: Michael A. Aisenberg has joined the firm as counsel. Previously, he spent 17 years as Digital Equipment Corporation's Washington lobbyist representing the company before Congress, three Administrations and many industry associations involved in the development of U.S. and global technology policy. He is currently a committee chair of the Section on computer and telecommunications law of the Washington, D.C. Bar, and co-chair of the PLI 1999 conference series on the year 2000.