KARIN LAFRAMBOISE, most recently advertising operations manager at EDMC, has joined Smith Brothers as director of traffic and production.

MARIAM DILAWARI has joined Dentsu America, New York, as a media supervisor on the Canon account. She was previously a media strategist at Media Kitchen, New York.

PointRoll has named SHANNON THOMPSON as director of channel development. Thompson previously inaugurated and rolled out the use of rich media at Yahoo! where she built and managed the ad technologies team.

FOX News Channel has named SETH HITTMAN national director of digital media sales. In addition, COURTNEY DUBIN joins FNC as manager for sales marketing and ALEXIS GOLDSTEIN joins as an account executive.

LYNN BRINDELL has been named senior vice president, marketing, of The Weather Channel. Brindell will oversee and have leadership responsibility for all marketing functions for the network. She previously served as senior vice president of marketing and creative services for Food Network, where she was responsible for all brand positioning and consumer marketing strategies for the network's programming and content extensions.

G2 Promotional Marketing has appointed MARY LINEBURG as managing partner of the Dallas office. Prior to her promotion, Lineburg served as vice president management supervisor.

DDB Canada hired RICHARD SANDOR as managing director of the Vancouver office. Previously, Sandor worked at DDB London as global business director on Nestle Purina, as well as European and UK Business Director on DDB's J&J account.

Popular Science has named PETER MICHALSKY as marketing director; CHRISTOPHER YOUNG as account manager; and MATT BOUYEA as a San Francisco representative.

The p.i.n.k. Spirits Company has named LONNIE CHARLESON as executive vice president, director of sales. Most recently, Charleson was the senior vice president and director of sales for Boz Spirits.

DEREK SHORKEY joins MacLaren McCann Vancouver as managing director. Shorkey was president and co-founder of independent Vancouver agency, Pineapple Group, which has been merged into the local McCann operation.