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EXECUTIVE TRANSACTIONS

          ADAM SHAW has been promoted to the new position of Fox
     Sports Net Senior VP/Network Development.  Shaw, who was
     previously VP/Affiliate Strategy, will report to FSN
     President JEFF SHELL (FSN)....JAMES MURDOCH was named to
     oversee News Corp.'s global Internet strategy.  He will
     manage News Digital Media, a "revamped and renamed version
     of News America Digital Publishing" (FINANCIAL TIMES,
     9/30)....The Bonham Group has promoted MATT YONAN to
     VP/Sales & Marketing. In a related move, former Manager of
     Client Services SHAWN BRADLEY was promoted to Dir of Client
     Services (Bonham Group)....PETER YATES has been named Dir of
     Design at ESPN The Magazine.  Yates was previously Art Dir
     at the magazine and will succeed DARRIN PERRY, who left to
     join an Internet venture in L.A. (ESPN)....Former NCAA Dir
     of Championships DONNA NOONAN was named to the new position
     of VP/Div. I Women's Basketball Championship (NCAA)....ROB
     KATZ was named Dir of Marketing & Communications at
     Homestead-Miami Speedway.  He was Senior Dir of
     Merchandising and Promotions for the Devil Rays (Homestead).

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