* Louise Clements has been appointed VP, market development for Bell Globemedia. She was previously VP of sales and e-commerce for Sympatico-Lycos.

* Peter Miller has been promoted to the newly created position of VP, planning and regulatory affairs at Chum Television.

Miller, Chum’s former VP of business and regulatory affairs, joined the company in 1998 from the Canadian Association of Broadcasters.

* Corus Television has promoted Susan Schaefer to VP of marketing and Dolores Keating-Mallen to creative head.

* Allison Outhit has been appointed VP of development, production and business affairs for Collideascope Digital Productions in Halifax. Outhit is a former showrunner for the Salter Street Films/Alliance Atlantis sci-fi series Lexx and director of business affairs for Salter.

* Former TV5 Americas senior VP Johanne Brunet has joined Distraction Formats as a partner and executive VP. The company operates offices in London, Montreal and Paris.

* Harry Persaud has joined Stornoway Communications as director of production services. Persaud spent the last 11 years at YTV, where he was most recently senior manager of production services.

* The Quebec government has announced the appointment of Paule Beaugrand-Champagne to the position of president and director-general of broadcaster Societe de telediffusion du Quebec (Tele-Quebec). Beaugrand-Champagne is a career journalist and is presently editor in chief of news at Radio-Canada. She succeeds Doris Girard, named deputy minister of culture and communications last September.

* Reseau TVA has named France Lauziere to the post of director, variety and magazine programs.