• Multichannel News, Thursday, October 25, 2007 11:15 AM

Disney ABC Kids Networks, the ad sales and promotion arm of Disney Channel, Toon Disney and ABC Kids is promoting Eric Vincent to vice president of sales for the East Coast region and naming Becky Marquardt to the same post for the Midwest region.

The group is part of Disney's Media Advertising Sales and Marketing Group, which handles all ad sales, marketing and promotion for kid-driven and family-inclusive TV platforms, online offerings, and kids publishing and radio. Vincent was an account executive for ABC Family and joined the company back in 1999 as associate director, prime time sales proposals for ABC, recruited from Mediacom.

Marquardt joins Disney after a 20-year career at MTV Networks, where she was vice president of national advertising sales, responsible for territories from Texas to Minnesota. Earlier, as director of national ad sales for MTV Networks, she worked on multi-level media deals for Nickelodeon and began her career as a traffic coordinator for commercial scheduling at MTVN.

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