Discovery Communications named BBC Dir of Digital RALPH RIVERA to the newly created position of Managing Dir of Eurosport Digital. Rivera will report to Exec VP/Int'l Development & Digital MICHAEL LANG, effective Sept. 26 (Discovery).
FROM THE STANDS: Bleacher Report has made "several key editorial hires for its social-first content strategy." The site named Slam magazine Editor-in-Chief BEN OSBORNE to the same position, while MATT SULLIVAN was named Dir of Editorial Innovation & Special Projects and RYAN SMITH was named Dir of Content Design with a focus on “special projects and innovation." Finally, former Grantland writer and N.Y. Times sports reporter JONATHAN ABRAMS has joined the site “as a special projects writer” (VARIETY.com, 9/6).
EXECS: Learfield named JOSH PEROT GM and GARY NORTHEN Manager of Business Development for its Louisiana Tech Sports Properties (Learfield)....Temple Univ. promoted TIM THIESS to Senior Associate AD/Finance & Administration and SCOTT WALCOFF to Senior Associate AD/External Operations (Temple)....The Aspire Group hired the following people for its collegiate Fan Relationship Management Centers: KROCKETT REYES as Sales & Service Consultant (Long Beach); MEREDITH PIPKIN, MELANIE BAKER and GREG WRIGHT as Business Consultants (Maryland); and AMANDA NISHIKUBO and KEITRA BRUNER as Sales Consultants (North Texas). Aspire also named BRANDON BILLS and CAITLIN LITTLE as Sales Consultants with its National Sales Center (THE DAILY)....Prodigy Sports named ARIN SEGAL Associate (THE DAILY).
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