Mireille Watson, director of industrial relations and membership services at the CFTPA, has been promoted to VP, industrial relations and training.

WETV has announced that Linda Rankin, former president of WTN, has joined its team as general manager. WETV, the world’s first global-access TV network, is working towards an Oct. 1 launch date.

The National Screen Institute has named Gary Toth as its new chairman. Toth was GM at the Alberta Motion Picture Development Corporation.

Corporate and tax lawyer Robert Hogan has been named president and COO of Malofilm Communications. Hogan says planned production and infrastructure investments by Behaviour Entertainment, an affiliate of BHVR Communications, which controls Malofilm, will be taken over by Malofilm. Malofilm will expand on Behaviour’s production plans (four or five TV and animation projects) as well as study the possibility of setting up a digital production studio, says Hogan, a financing and takeover specialist.

Hogan will sit on Malofilm’s board. He is also a director of Industry Entertainment, a Montreal feature film and TV production company, and Discreet Logic.