Meredith Corporation has named NANCY WEBER, vice president, group marketing director for the Meredith Magazine Group, a new position. She will be responsible for the marketing of Better Homes and Gardens, Meredith Corporate Sales, Direct Response and Travel.

Mediamark Research has formed a new division, MRI Market Solutions, and has hired SHARON POLANSKY to run the division. As vice president, MRI Market Solutions (which incorporates MRI’s Custom Division), Polansky is charged with leading the new business venture. Before joining MRI, Polansky was vice president, corporate marketing research, at Rodale.

Active International, a corporate trading firm, has named MIKE STONE as vice president, associate director of Children’s Broadcast. In this role, Stone will oversee all media buying for Active’s children’s media group.

Starcom MediaVest Group has named VALERIE MCMORRAN senior vice president/broadcast investment director for its Canadian operations. McMorran will be responsible for managing all television investment activities on behalf of the agency’s entire client roster. Previously, McMorran served as an svp/media director at Initiative, where she helped design a joint venture with Draft to create a DRTV specialist unit.

MELISSA KIMBLE has been promoted from account supervisor to management supervisor breatheinteractive. She will continue to work with several clients, including BellSouth Advertising & Publishing Corporation, BellSouth, Publix Super Markets, and the Orlando/Orange County Convention & Visitors Bureau. In addition, JULIA BROWN has been promoted to business development manager. She previously held the account executive and assistant account executive titles. KATIE WHITNEY was also promoted to account supervisor from production manager at breatheinteractive. In her new position, she will work on several accounts, including Buffalo Wild Wings, Russell Athletic, Marriott International, LandAmerica, and Southeast Toyota Distributors.

ED RENICKER has been promoted to executive vice president and general manager of the New York Interconnect (NYI) of Cablevision Systems Corporation. Renicker will oversee NYI, an advertising partnership between Cablevision and Comcast, which provides advertisers in the New York DMA with the ability to buy spot cable across 44 cable networks. Also at the company, BARRY FREY has been named senior vice president of advanced platform sales.

JENNIFER DECHRISTOFORO joined Doubledown Media as marketing and promotions manager for both Trader Monthly and Justice Magazine. Previously, she was editorial special projects manager at Bride’s. MICHAEL DICHIARA joins the company as director, fashion, grooming and aviation at Trader Monthly. He was previously in ad sales at House Beautiful.

GIAN LOMBARDI has been named regional vice president of PointRoll and will lead PointRoll's East Cost Sales group. Lombardi has held senior level sales positions at Maven and DoubleClick Inc. KARIE GILSON joins the company as director of channel development and will be responsible for working with publishers that are part of PointRoll's proprietary Included Program.

Draft New York has hired SEAN REMLER as vice president, account director. Most recently, Remler served as vice president, account director on Wunderman's Citibank account.

JEFFREY DOSTER has been named chief technology officer for Shop At Home and BILL CHRISTOPHER will serve as senior vice president of customer experience.