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Rainbow Media Holdings, whose spinoff had been delayed indefinitely, has turned in-house to fill several top management vacancies, promoting three of its veteran executives.
Ed Carroll, formerly executive vice president and general manager of Independent Film Channel, was named president of Rainbow's Entertainment Services, responsible for AMC, IFC and WE: Women's Entertainment. He replaces Kathleen Dore, who exited Rainbow in October to become president of television and radio at CanWest MediaWorks in Toronto.
Rainbow also named Kim Martin -- most recently executive vice president of distribution and affiliate marketing for AMC, Fuse, IFC, WE, Mag Rack and Sportskool -- as executive vice president and general manager of WE.
And Gregg Hill -- formerly executive vice president of affiliate sales and marketing for AMC, IFC, WE and Mag Rack -- was promoted and named president of distribution, overseeing those same services.
The promotions come as no surprise. In fact, Martin has been serving as general manager of WE for roughly two months -- Multichannel News reported it on Oct. 11 -- although the company hadn't officially announced her promotion.
MOST HOLES FILLED
This latest batch of promotions follow five hires and promotions that Rainbow made in October, and these fill most of the holes left after a series of executive exits at the programming company, a unit of Cablevision Systems Corp.
"It's a new energized group: Some new people, some people from inside, but we're now complete," Rainbow Media CEO Joshua Sapan said. "We have just a...