EXECUTIVE TRANSACTIONS

     RICHARD PARSONS, Chair & CEO of Dime Bancorp, is expected to
be named President of Time Warner today (N.Y. TIMES,
10/31)....SANFORD RILEY, CEO of Investors Group Ltd. will be
named Chair of the Winnipeg 1999 Pan-American Games Society
(WINNIPEG FREE PRESS, 10/31)....DOUG ARNOT was named Dir of
Venues by ACOG.  Arnot most recently served as Exec VP of World
Cup USA (ACOG)....SYD THRIFT, longtime baseball executive, is
expected to be named director of player development for the
Orioles (Baltimore SUN, 10/29)....JOHN BROWN was promoted to Dir
of Promotion for Turner Sports Networks Sales.  He had been
Promotion Manager, Sports. ... At Rainbow, ARNOLD SCHREER was
named account executive for the SportsChannel national sales
team.  He was sports sales exec at WFAN, New York.  DENA KAPLAN
was named Dir of Advertising Sales in the Western region.  She
had been assistant sales manager (MULTICHANNEL NEWS, 10/31
issue).