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Updated: Industry Moves: Disney-ABC TV; Spot Runner; Operative; Hi-Media

Disney/ABC-TV: The broadcast and cable unit has added three execs to its digital team… Karin Timpone and Lauren DeVillier are joining from Yahoo. Timpone will serve as SVP, marketing and product strategy for the Digital Media team, while DeVillier will serve as VP, digital media at the Disney Channel. At Yahoo, Timpone was chief marketer for the Yahoo Media Group, overseeing marketing for the portal’s content operations, including entertainment, news, finance, sports, lifestyles and health verticals. During her time at Yahoo, DeVillier managed Yahoo Kids and the eco-focused channel Yahoo Green. Rounding out the trio of new faces at Disney/ABC’s digital team is Beth Johnson, who arrives from NBC Universal‘s Bravo, where she was editorial director for digital media. Before that, Johnson part of the launch team for InStyle magazine’s InStyle.com. In her new role at Disney, Johnson will be VP, digital media for ABC Daytime & SOAPnet.

Spot Runner: Separate from the loss of national ad sales exec Joanne Bradford to Yahoo earlier, the online TV ad agency has tapped two new execs to its Local Marketing Services group. Former Autobytel and AOL exec Jon Rosen is in as VP of sales and business development; and Elizabeth Carrasco, formerly of web traffic analyst Authenticlick, as VP of online engineering. Release (PDF)

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Operative: Microsoft has another space to fill following the exit of Kevin Johnson in June and Bradford leaving, however briefly, for Spot Runner this past spring. Now, Microsoft vet Mike Hard is gone. He ran U.S. digital advertising sales at MSFT, and will now oversee global sales and marketing for Operative, a provider of ad management tools to web publishers. Hard spent 17 years in a variety of executive roles at the Redmond software giant. Release

Hi-Media: Former Microsoft exec Bruce Jaffe has joined Hi-Media to advise the board on strategy and development, tacking this role onto his post as board advisor for Glam Media. Early this year, Jaffe had left MSFT, having been with the company since 1995. Release.

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Sep 9, 2008 10:24 AM ET

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