Active Athlete Media hired THELO AIKEN as director of business development. Most recently, Aiken was director of sales for NetTraction.com.

Superstation WGN elevated BYRON CHAPIN to account executive and DANA BERNARD to account service representative.

JOSEPH CAPOBIANCO joined the YES Network as an ad sales account executive. Capobianco most recently served as account executive at WPIX-TV in New York.

TOM STAEBLER, senior vice president and art director of Playboy magazine, is retiring after 39 years, 28 of those as art director. Succeeding him is ROB WILSON, the magazine's deputy art director.

Peppercom promoted ANN BARLOW to president of Peppercom’s west coast operations and MAGGIE O’NEILL to senior director of the New York office.

Charles River Interactive named PAUL WITHAM and AARON KATZ as search engine optimization project leads.

SEAN KEARNEY and JEN BROWN have been promoted to Midwest/west and east coast mobile sales managers respectively at the Weather Channel.

Campfire named JEREMIAH ROSEN to the newly created position of director of accounts. Rosen will manage Campfire's agency and direct-to-brand partnerships placing heavy focus on new business development and advanced brand integration strategies. Prior to joining Campfire, Rosen was director of strategic development at DCODE where he led expansion efforts for brands including ESPN and Modell's Sporting Goods.

ERIK SMITH was named vice president of content and programming at Metacafe. Smith most recently served as senior director for business development and programming at MobiTV where he was responsible for developing and implementing the programming strategy and business models for MobiTV products on both mobile and broadband platforms.

ANDY SCHOENGOLD was named director of graphics for all News Channel 12 stations in the tri-state area. He was previously lead designer for CNN's Nancy Grace.