Advertising.com, Inc., the interactive advertising network and performance-based marketing services provider, recently announced some promotions: MIKE FURY (pictured here), formerly Director of Advertising.com's San Francisco sales office, has been named Vice President of Regional Sales for the company's southwest and western sales regions. DON KENNEDY, formerly Director of Advertising.com's Baltimore sales office, has been named Vice President of Regional Sales for the company's mid-Atlantic, southeast and mid-west sales regions. KURT MUNZINGER, formerly Director of Advertising.com's New York sales office, has been named Vice President of Regional Sales for the company's northeast sales region. In addition, Advertising.com's National Sales Director, JEREMY …

Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc. (SBGI) announced this week that BETH WORSHAM has been named General Manager for WXLV-TV (ABC 45) and WUPN-TV (UPN 48) in the Greensboro/Winston-Salem/High Point, North Carolina market. Worsham has spent the past 16 years in various sales and management positions at Sinclair's ABC affiliate, WEAR-TV. Most recently, she served as the General Sales Manager and prior to that as the Regional Sales Manager.

Tribune Company recently named veteran broadcast executive STEVE CARVER as Vice President/General Manager of WATL-TV (WB36), in Atlanta, Georgia. Carver is currently Regional Vice President for Tribune Television, and Vice President and General Manager of WGN-AM Radio in Chicago. The company also announced that MARK KRIESCHEN, Director of Sales at the radio station, will succeed Carver as Vice President and General Manager.

JULIE HERCEG joins the HF&A team as a Senior Media Planner/Buyer. Herceg's primary responsibilities include yearly planning and buying for a number of large accounts at HF&A.

Entravision Communications Corporation announced that ANITA SAENZ-CARVALHO has been promoted to General Manager of its Corpus Christi, Texas television cluster, which includes UNIVISION KORO 28 and TELEFUTURA KCRP 41. Effective immediately, Saenz-Carvalho will be replacing Araceli DeLeon, who has left the company to pursue other opportunities. Since 1999, Saenz-Carvalho has served as the General Sales Manager/Local Sales Manager of UNIVISION KORO 28. Saenz-Carvalho has held various advertising sales positions since her career began in 1982, including several account executive positions at local television and radio stations in Corpus Christi, TX.

MICHAEL ALFORD has been named the new Sport Sales Manager for ESPN Radio 710. He comes to ESPN from the University of Southern California where he was the Associate Athletic Director of Corporate Sales & Marketing. There he developed and negotiated sponsorship opportunities for such accounts as Gatorade, Lexus, Mercedes-Benz, Nextel, Nike, Pepsi and Verizon.

Boede&partners, an integrated marketing firm, this week announced the addition of four employees to its creative department: GARY BROWN, JOHN KINKEAD, KRIS BARTHOLOMEW and KIM REYNOLDS -- and the promotion of another employee, KARA HALLSTROM. Brown joins boede&partners as Senior Interactive Art Director. He has extensive Web and multimedia experience from his work at Euro RSCG DSW Partners for clients such as Intel, Iomega and Xircom. Kinkead joins the firm as Senior Copywriter and will collaborate on accounts such as Ingenix and Plantronics. Prior to boede&partners, Kinkead was a freelance writer for Grey Worldwide in San Francisco on the Cisco …

ROBERT L. NOVAK joins ESPN Radio 710 in Los Angeles in sports sales. A senior sales and marketing executive, Novak has had more than 25 years of broadcast, sports and internet marketing experience. His work history includes Director of Sales at Engage Media, Inc. and General Sales Manager at the Los Angeles Clippers. Robert has held a variety of sales and marketing positions such as Director of Sports Sales and Marketing at KZLA/KLAC Radio heading up Lakers Sales, and Account Executive at KMPC 710 Radio where he sold sports packages for the then, California Angels, Los Angeles Rams and UCLA …

Modem Media Inc. of Westport, CT has named MICHAEL DE KARE-SILVER Managing Director of Modem's Europe division. De Kare-Silver joins Modem Media from PA Consulting, where he was head of e-business service development.

The organizers of the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival announced that MARCO TINELLI, President and CEO of FullSIX, will be the Jury President of the 2003 Cyber Lions jury. After a few years in Arthur Andersen’s merger & acquisition department, he joined the Publicis Group to launch its interactive services division (Publicis Technology) in 1994, bringing it in 1997 to a leading position in the French market. Tinelli then joined the Grey Group in late 1997 to launch Grey Interactive in France and in Europe. In 2001, he led the name change from Grey Interactive to FullSIX and the merger …