CAA hired IF Management VP/Broadcasting & Consulting JOSH SANTRY. Santry "represents several up-and-coming broadcasters." Santry, 34, "joined CAA last Monday" and is working out of the Hollywood agency's N.Y. office. At IF, Santry repped Dodgers TV play-by-play man JOE DAVIS, ESPN's JESSICA MENDOZA and NBCSN's LIAM MCHUGH, among others. It is "not clear which clients, if any, will follow Santry to CAA" (SPORTSBUSINESS JOURNAL, 3/20 issue).
EXECS: Brooklyn Sports & Entertainment named Pirates Exec VP/Chief Sales & Marketing Officer DREW CLOUD Chief Business Officer. Prior to joining the Pirates, Cloud served as NBA VP/Team Marketing & Business Operations (BS&E)....Olympia Entertainment named Palace Sports & Entertainment VP/IT & Business Systems JOHN KING VP/IT & Innovation. Olympia also named NHRA Dir of Production & Lead Producer PETE SKORICH VP for the newly created department of entertainment services. The department will be responsible for Olympia and Red Wings video content development, in-arena programming, video and game production and broadcast (Olympia)....The Mariners named law firm Perkins Coie Managing Partner FRED RIVERA Exec VP/General Counsel (Mariners)....Sports motion analysis and digital media technology company V-One Sports named Titleist VP/Marketing CHRIS MCGINLEY CEO (V-One)....ESPN Radio named ESPN Radio 98.7 N.Y. Program Dir JUSTIN CRAIG Senior Dir of Programming and Operations (ESPN)....Comcast Cable promoted COO DAVE WATSON to President & CEO. Watson succeeds NEIL SMIT, who "will transition to a new role" as Vice Chair of Comcast Corp., effective April 1 (MULTICHANNEL.com, 3/20)....Little League Int'l named ASHLEA NASH Central Region Assistant Dir (Little League).
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