Executive Transactions
NBA Digital named JOHN COOK Coordinating Producer and MIKE MILLER Coordinating Dir for NBA TV. Previously, Cook was Senior Dir of Studio Operations for FSN and SportSouth in Atlanta. Miller spent 12 years as Dir of Sports Remote & Studio for FSN and SportSouth (Turner).
FRANCHISES: Nationals VP/Marketing TOM WARD and VP/Business Affairs MIKE SHAPIRO have left the team within the past month. The "precise reasons for their departures remains unknown" (WASHINGTON TIMES, 9/23)....The Heat promoted DEANDRE PHILLIPS to Manager of Business Communications (Heat).
EXECS: SMI named Motorsports Authentics VP/Marketing & Licensing TIM SCHULDT VP/National Sales (SMI)….Speed named RICK SNYDER VP/Creative Services. Most recently, Snyder was VP/Creative Services in Orlando for WOFL-Fox, WRBW-MYT, WOGX-Fox and MyFOXOrlando.com (Speed)….Double Fusion named JANA FRIEDMAN VP/Sales for the Casual Games Group and promoted AARON LASSILA to Senior Dir of Sales for the Core Games Group. Previously, Friedman was a sales exec with Conde Nast and EA (Double Fusion)….JHE Production Group promoted Senior Dir of Operations RYAN BAXTER to VP/Production, Special Events Manager NATALIE JOHNSON to Dir of Special Events and BRAD SMITH to Dir of Production (JHE)….Learfield Sports named MEGHAN JOHNSON Account Exec for Big Ten Sports Properties (Learfield).
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