duction manager, named director, Association of America, Reston, Va., on -air design. as manager, new media analysis. Appointments at HBO, New York: Ellen Collett, head, Collett/Dozoretz INTERNATIONAL Productions, joins HBO Pictures as William Fisher, director, program VP; Roger Strong, director, market acquisitions and co- production, analysis, named VP, marketing strat- STAR TV, Hong Kong, joins HBO, egy and analysis; Lino Garcia, manag- Singapore, as senior VP, HBO Inter- er, ethnic marketing, named director, national, and VP, HBO. HBO en Español. Appointments at STAR TV, New Ray Jacobs (r) and Scott Friedland Stephen Croncota, have merged their respective York: Lindsay McHugh, director, sales, VP, creative ser- companies, Jacobs Creative Inc. and London, moves to New York in same vices, The Car- Imagine One Inc., to form Friedland capacity; Ashley Marable, sales, Turner Jacobs Communications Inc. The VP, toon Network, company, located in Burbank, Calif., International, joins as advertis- Atlanta, named will specialize in entertainment ing sales. senior VP. advertising. Assuming key roles at Appointments at CNN International, the new agency will be John Varvi, Susannah Eaton- senior VP/associate creative director; London: Charles Hodson, freelance pre- Ryan, VP, TV Kenton Rand, VP, production; Scott senter, Deutsche Welle TV, Berlin, Food Network, Jacobs, VP, print and broadcast joins as European business correspon- design; Sheri Stratz, CFO; Rob Lawe, New York, senior producer, broadcasting, and dent, World Business Today; Charles Croncota named senior VP. John Behring, director/ Hoff, bureau chief, Jerusalem, named Christopher Glowacki, manager, business cinematographer. deputy bureau chief, London. development and strategic planning, Peter Jamieson, senior VP, Asia/Pacif- CNBC and America's Talking, Fort BBDO Chicago, named VP. ic region, BMG International, Hong Lee, N.J., named director. Kong, joins MTV: Music Television, Ken Lombardo, creative director, New York, as president, MTV Asia. Theo Killion, senior VP /director, McQueeny David Kohm & Partners, human resources, Macy's East, joins New Jersey, joins Princeton Partners Home Shopping Network, St. Peters- Inc., Princeton, N.J., as creative DEATHS burg, Fla., as senior VP, human director. resources. Timothy Flack, VP, creative affairs, Pete Demas, supervising producer, CBS Entertainment, died March 8 news and specials, MTV, New York, ALLIED FIELDS at Midway Hospital, Los Angeles, named executive producer, MTV after a long battle with AIDS. He Cory Mitchell, founder/president, Posei- Home Video. worked in the entertainment indus- don Entertainment, Los Angeles, joins try, first for ABC as VP, casting; Kathleen Nittiing, manager, public rela- SNET, New Haven, Conn., as presi- then for Carsey -Werner Produc- tions, West Coast, Turner Broadcast- dent, multi -media services unit. tions, where he helped to develop ing System, joins fX Networks, Los Robert Osher, senior VP, business and The Cosby Show. He later moved to Angeles, as director, public relations. legal affairs, Walt Disney Pictures and NBC as VP, casting, and for a while Appointments at Liberty Sports, Irv- Touchstone Pictures, Los Angeles, headed his own company, Tim ing, Tex.: Dan Casey, director, joins Turner Pictures Group there as Flack Casting. During a stint with research, planning and marketing, executive VP. Columbia Pictures Television he KCAL(TV) Los Angeles, as joins Janet Patterson, research director, wsz- executive -produced the television director, research /ad sales; Don Meek, movie Among the shows TV Boston, joins Audience Research Stranded. VP, event properties, Prime Sports - & Development, Dallas, as senior he helped develop at CBS were West, named VP, Prime Sports Event research project director. Major Dad, The Nanny and Dave's Group, Los Angeles. World. He is survived by his moth- Laura James, director, marketing er, a brother, one sister -in -law, and research, Rainbow Advertising Sales two nephews. ADVERTISING/MARKETING Company, New York, joins Nielsen Douglas Harris, partner, Harris & Scott Media Research there as manager, Leslie Hill Nixon Barton, 52, died March Creative Broadcasting Strategies, local cable market development. 4 of cancer at her home in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. She worked at Houston, joins CRN International, Raymond Boller, VP, national accounts, wtxT(TV) Jacksonville, Fla., in Hamden, Conn., as director, creative Showtime Network, New York, joins broadcast sales. Barton is survived services. GTE Main Street Inc., Stamford, by her husband, Robert; her father Kate Merlin, senior account executive, Conn., as senior VP, marketing and and stepmother; a brother and sister - David Kratz & Co., New York, joins affiliate sales. in -law; and two nephews. Dan Klores Associates there as VP. Meinda Gipson, editor, Multimedia Patty Gehrou, director, local broadcast, Daily, Washington, joins Newspaper -Compiled by Denise Smith

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