DAILY VARIETY's Josef Adalian reports that CBS Sports
Senior VP/Business Affairs & Programming TONY PETITTI "has
been chosen to take over" as VP & GM of WCBS-NY. Petitti
will continue to serve as a special adviser to CBS Sports
President SEAN MCMANUS (DAILY VARIETY, 8/19)....Walt Disney
has promoted JOHN BALL and SALIL MEHTA to Senior
VP's/Strategic Planning and Development (DAILY VARIETY,
8/19)....PRIMO NEBIOLO was re-elected to a sixth term as
IAAF President (AP, 8/19)....CA-based MARSHACK SHULMAN &
HODGES announced the creation of its new sports division,
SPECTRUM SPORTS GROUP (SSG). SSG hired SEAN PATIKAS-HUNTER
as Dir of Firm Marketing & Development (THE DAILY)....SCOTT
EMMERT was named Media Relations Coordinator for the Sharks.
He was previously Dir of Media & Community Relations for the
ECHL Chesapeake Icebreakers (Sharks)....The AP named ANICK
JESDANUN as its "first" Internet reporter (E&P, 8/18
issue)...KEVIN MCMAHON was named Promotions Manager for
Atlanta Motor Speedway (SPEEDNET, 8/18)....LYN HOLMER was
named as an associate with Williams Company of America Inc.,
a PR company in motorsports (SPEEDNET, 8/18).