Angels Owner Arte Moreno Names Dennis Kuhl Team President

Angels Owner ARTE MORENO yesterday named Viacom Outdoor Exec VP DENNIS KUHL as team president, and in L.A., Bill Shaikin notes Kuhl is one of Moreno's "longtime advertising industry associates." The hiring is the "latest indication that Moreno intends to market the team well beyond the borders of Orange County." Moreno said Kuhl's three decades as a sales and advertising exec would "position us to continue to grow in the greater [L.A.] market." Kuhl joins the Angels after eight years at Viacom Outdoor, previously Outdoor Systems, which was owned by Moreno until '99, when he sold it to Infinity/CBS (L.A. TIMES, 11/11). In CA, Bill Plunkett notes Kuhl becomes the sixth president in franchise history, "the first since Moreno took control of the team last summer." Kuhl "fills the vacancy most recently occupied by JAY RASULO and PAUL PRESSLER during the final days of Disney ownership" (ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER, 11/11).