Playboy magazine, this week named DIANE SILBERSTEIN to the position of Associate Publisher/Advertising for the magazine. Silberstein joins Playboy from YAHOO! Internet Life Magazine, where she was the magazine's Publisher. She has also served as Publisher of The New Yorker and Elle, has held top positions with Allure and Vogue, and was the Senior Vice President/Group Publisher at Phase2Media, an internet advertising sales, marketing and promotional company for top Web companies such as Maxim Online, the National Hockey League, FOX, ELLE.com and Britannica.com. Silberstein began her career at Glamour magazine.

Young & Rubicam has tapped BBDO's MICHAEL PATTI as Chairman and CEO of the flagship office. Patti has worked at BBDO for 18 years, most recently as a Vice Chairman and Senior Executive Creative Director. He resigned from the New York shop on Friday and is expected to join Y&R on March 1. In his New York roles, Patti replaces Ron Bess, who shifts to a corporate role as Vice Chairman, Integration and Business Development at Y&R Group.

Sales & Marketing Management magazine announced the appointment of THOMAS M. FLYNN as Account Manager responsible for eastern regional advertising sales for the magazine. Flynn most recently was the Principal for 10X Partners LLC, a sales outsourcing firm in Old Greenwich, CT. Prior to that, he was Sales Director for Engage Media for two years. Other experience includes sales management positions as New York Sales Manager at Yahoo! and Advertising Director at CFO Magazine, part of The Economist Group.

Publishing Group of America, a Franklin, Tennessee-based media company that publishes American Profile magazine, this week announced that DICK PORTER, President of American Profile magazine and Senior Vice President of Publishing for PGA, has been named the Company’s Chief Executive Officer, effective immediately.

Premiere Radio Networks announced that LEN KLATT, formerly Vice President/Director of Research, has been promoted to the newly created position of Sr. Vice President/Director of Research. Prior to joining Premiere, Klatt served as Director of Research at Westwood One in New York for 11 years.

Hitchcock Fleming & Associates Inc., a full-service marketing communications firm in Akron, Ohio, has hired MELISSA PHILIPS as the new Account Supervisor for the agency's RentWay Inc. account. She has more than 12 year's experience as an account supervisor working on a number of large accounts, including Papa John's Cleveland, Arby's Cleveland, Dirt Devil and Goody Products.

The Greensboro office of CWA Creative Communications has named veteran marketing specialist JEFF GLATUS as Vice President of Business Development. Glatus, who has 15 years of experience in business-to-business marketing, has held management positions with Eaton Corporation and Volvo Trucks. Most recently served as a strategic marketing consultant in the trucking industry.

DraftWorldwide has hired WILLIE WILKOV as Vice President, Account Director. Over the past year and a half, Wilkov was Director of Employee Development at Leo Burnett USA. In his previous six years at Burnett, Wilkov worked in account management overseeing brand advertising, promotions and direct marketing work for Philip Morris, Motorola and Amazon.com.

Salem Communications Corporation, a leading radio broadcaster focused on religious and family themes programming, announced that CHARLES L. "CHUCK" FINNEY has been appointed to the newly-created position of National Program Director for Music, and Brand Manager for Salem's highly successful Fish format, according to Joe D. Davis, Executive Vice President of Radio for Salem Communications. Before joining Salem, Finney previously served as Program Director for Infinity's WGRR in Cincinnati, winning two nominations for the prestigious Marconi Award, and leading his station to unprecedented ratings. As Vice President Operations for Secret Communications, he oversaw programming and marketing for 18 stations, and …