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Turner Broadcasting System has named Beth Goss executive vice president of ad sales, marketing and enterprises at Cartoon Network. Goss will be based in New York, reporting to Turner Entertainment ad sales president David Levy.


Radar Online, the web site that covers politics, pop culture and style, has named Michael Small general manager. Small was most recently editor in chief of RollingStone.com and also spent nine years working at Entertainment Weekly Online.


Dennis Miller, the comedian and former "Saturday Night Live" Weekend Update anchor, is planning to launch his first radio show in March. The daily three-hour show will be appropriately titled "The Dennis Miller Show," airing on Westwood One. Miller has won five Emmy awards and has previously hosted shows on HBO and CNBC.


Spin Magazine has upped Doug Brod to editor from his previous position as executive editor. Before joining Spin, Brod was an editor at Entertainment Weekly for more than a decade. Spin has also hired Steve Kandell as deputy editor, Michelle Egiziano as photography director and Gavin Stevens as associate photo editor.

Complex magazine has upped Moksha Fitzgibbons to associate publisher, while Jeanette Lukasik becomes account manager and Kelly McCabe becomes market editor. Fitzgibbons had been advertising director, returning to the magazine after a year's hiatus working for Stuff magazine.


Oprah Winfrey has agreed to host and executive produce a primetime special for ABC to air Feb. 22, three days before the 79th annual Academy Awards. The one-hour show, fittingly called "The Oprah Winfrey Oscar Special," will feature Oscar-winning actors interviewing other Oscar-winners of their choice. Julia Roberts will interview George Clooney, Nicole Kidman will interview Russell Crowe, and Jamie Foxx will interview 1963 Oscar-winner Sidney Poitier.

Telemundo has named Susan Solano senior vice president of consumer marketing, reporting to senior executive vice president Antoinette Zel. In this new role, Solano will focus on the overall definition, execution and implementation of marketing strategies for the broadcast network brand.


James C. Weeks, former president and chief operating officer of The New York Times Regional Media Group, died earlier this week at the age of 64. The cause of death has not been disclosed. Weeks was the publisher of The Press Democrat of Santa Rosa after the paper was purchased by The New York Times Company, and he left in 1988 to become vice president of the Regional Media Group based in Atlanta. He was later promoted to president and chief operating officer before retiring in 1999.


La cominidad, a Miami-based advertising agency, has hired Matt Orser and Alvaro Ramos Solanes as art directors. Orser had been with Carmichael Lynch, working on campaigns for Harley-Davidson and Porsche, while Solanes had been head of art for Leo Burnett in Lima, Peru.

Marketing Management Analytics has hired John D. Clayton as vice president of account management, where he will focus on client service for select accounts. Clayton had previously managed accounts for MarketShare Partners in L.A. as client service director.


"Rock Star: Supernova" host Brooke Burke and fianc David Charvet had their first child on Monday at Saint John's Health Center in Santa Monica, Calif. The little girl is named Heaven Rain Charvet.

Courtney Thorne-Smith from ABC's "According to Jim" married her boyfriend, agent Roger Fishman in a small, private ceremony on New Years' Day. Thorne-Smith, who has also appeared in "Ally McBeal" and "Melrose Place," was briefly married to Andrew Conrad, a geneticist.

Yvonne DeCarlo, best known for her role as Lily on "The Munsters," has died at the age of 84 from natural causes. In addition to her "Munsters" role, DeCarlo made a number of other television appearances on shows such as "Bonanza," "Death Valley Days" and "Murder She Wrote." In 1956, DeCarlo played opposite Charlton Heston as the wife of Moses in "The Ten Commandments."


2007 Media Life