In Atlanta, Frances Katz reports that TBS & Turner
South President WILLIAM BURKE has been named Time Warner
Digital Media President & CEO. Burke's job will be "to
develop a strategic plan to integrate the various" Time
Warner properties into a "viable Web site" (ATLANTA
CONSTITUTION, 9/15)....Churchill Downs GM ALEX WALDROP has
been named President in an organizational realignment at the
track. Churchill Downs VP/Information Technology MATT
IULIANO has been appointed COO of Charlson Broadcast
Technologies, a Churchill Downs subsidiary. Churchill Downs
Senior VP/Sales DAVID CARRICO has resigned to pursue other
interests. Also, former Louisville Sports Spectrum GM
PATRICK TROUTMAN has been named Churchill Racing Network
Project Dir, and GREG BUSH, who has been working in the
Churchill Downs Operations Department, has been named Sports
Spectrum GM (Churchill Downs)....Spalding Sports Worldwide
named DAN FREY as CFO. Frey, who comes from Duracell Int'l,
will replace WADE LEWIS (Spalding)....GREG BUSCH was named
Dir of Sports Marketing at WI-based event marketing firm GMR
Marketing (GMR)....Hibbett Sporting Goods has promoted
MICHAEL NEWSOME to President & CEO effective immediately.
Newsome was previously President & COO (Hibbett)....BILL
BUSCH has been named World Championship Wrestling Exec VP
and will supervise day-to-day operations (Turner Sports).
