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• Veteran broadcaster Denise Donlon takes the reigns at CBC Radio as its new executive director on Sept. 29. The CHUM vet and former president of Sony Music Canada replaces Jennifer McGuire, and arrives following the overhaul of CBC Radio 2.

• Dave Caporicci is now director of program marketing and brand partnerships at CTV’s Much MTV Group – a new division that works on youth audiences across eight broadcast channels, three online video players, live events, mobile and VOD.

• Ian Brown has rejoined Magnetic North as director of operations.

• Angela Heck, formerly of the National Film Board, has been hired as manager of the Filmmaker Forum for the 2008 Whistler Film Festival.

• Cream Productions (Aftermath) has hired director, writer and story editor Gary Lang as its in-house creative director. Lang (Last Mysteries of the Titanic) will report to founders Christopher Rowley and David Brady.

• Caroline Behar, acting head of acquisitions and international coproductions for France 5, and Mette Hoffman Meyer, head of documentaries and coproductions for Denmark’s DR Television, have joined the board of directors of the History Makers conference.

• Producer and director Rita Shelton Deverell (Not a Drop) is now storyteller-in-residence at Centennial College in Toronto, a new position at its School of Communications, Media and Design.

• Johanna Gravelle, Kodak’s country manager, Canada, Entertainment Imaging, is taking a company post in Melbourne, Australia as marketing director, Entertainment Imaging, for the Asia Pacific Region.

• Michael Beach (Soul Food, Third Watch) will guest star on Soul, the forthcoming VisionTV drama formerly known as Mahalia.