JON DIAMENT has been promoted to senior vice president/general sales manager of CNN Advertising Sales, and LINDA YACCARINO has been promoted to executive vice president of Turner Entertainment Sales and Marketing. Diament's new position expands his role to include overseeing the daily management of CNN's national sales offices, including Atlanta, Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles and New York. Diament joined CNN in 1990 as a sales planner and was promoted to account executive in 1992. In 1997, he was named sales manager, and a year later was promoted to the position of vice president. Yaccarino will continue to focus on strategic …

TONY FISHER has re-joined Deutsch as senior vice president, group creative director to work on the Bank of America account. Fisher had previously been with Deutsch from 1997 through 2001 and was most recently working at his own company, Tony Fisher Advertising. Prior to Deutsch, Fisher was executive creative director at Ally & Gargano, with clients including Dunkin' Donuts, Pfizer, Weight Watchers Foods and Aamco.

Initiative, Los Angeles, has hired JOE ADNEY as senior vice president, group account director. Adney will be responsible for overseeing agency activities on some of the region's key retail and entertainment accounts. Prior to joining Initiative, he served for five years as senior director, marketing for Baskin-Robbins, an Initiative client. Before that, Adney was the director of marketing for Disney Interactive.

Palisades Media Group has named COREY WEISS as vice president integrated marketing and promotions. Weiss will be responsible for creating new strategic marketing opportunities for Palisades' clients. Most recently, as a marketing consultant, he developed strategic partnership and promotional opportunities for clients including Sony Pictures and DreamWorks.

Carat Interactive has promoted CORY TREFFILETTI from media director to vice president of media and client services. In his new role, Treffiletti will oversee both the Media and Account Management Services within the San Francisco office. He has overseen advertising strategy, planning and placement for a series of Carat Interactive clients including Palm, Ofoto, and Showtime. Treffiletti is also a columnist for Online Spin (People on the Move's sister newsletter).

Unicast recently opened a Los Angeles office, and CHAD BEASLEY will be heading it as director, west coast sales. Prior to joining Unicast, Beasley was media supervisor at Digitas in Boston, working with clients such as General Motors, Celebrity Cruises, Delta Air Lines and American Electric Power.

Captivate Network has added LAURA DRISCOLL and ROGER BLACKSHAW as account executives in Chicago. Blackshaw was vice president regional sales midwest at Media Vehicles. Most recently, Driscoll was vice president/brand partner development at QCorps Residential, where she was responsible for building new business nationally and selling online advertising/utility Web services.

PrimeQ Solutions, a Web-based business and online media network services provider, announced the appointment of PAULINA BROOKS to the new position of vice president of online media. Brooks previously served as PrimeQ’s director of affiliate relations.

Viacom Television Station Sales has appointed ANGELA MELTON-FRAY to the position of vice president, business development for Viacom Stations Sales, West Coast. Melton-Fray comes to Viacom from KABC-TV, in Los Angeles, where she was the marketing/sales promotions executive for the last 3 years.

Eyeblaster announced that BOBBIE HALFIN will join the company as vice president, North American sales. Halfin will oversee Eyeblaster’s relationships with its existing customer base and strategies for generating new business across all North American markets. She most recently served as the managing director of sales and marketing for Meredith Interactive, a division of Meredith Corporation.