Personnel changes and updates

Personnel appointments

Apogee changes the location of its headquarters

Networks and Stations > Chris Ender has been promoted to senior vice president of communications at CBS . He will oversee publicity and communications functions for all of CBS’s West Coast programming divisions, including CBS Entertainment, UPN, and King World. > EchoStar ’s president and chief operating

Manufacturers >Media 100, a unit of Optibase, has hired long-time Avid product designer Steve Bayes as director of product marketing. He will oversee and roll out Media 100’s 10-bit HD and SD editing system, Media 100 HD; new versions of the company’s 844/X realtime editing-compositing solution; and future Media

Networks & Stations >Dean Macdonald, executive vice president and chief operating officer of Rogers Cable, has left the company. He has worked with Rogers in a number of capacities since 2001, when Rogers purchased Cable Atlantic, a Newfoundland cable company, of which Macdonald was a principal. Manufact

Manufacturers > Chyron has appointed Bill Hendler vice president and chief products officer. He will be responsible for overseeing product management for the company’s hardware and software products. He has been with Chyron for almost 25 years and was most recently vice president of its Media Solutions Group.

Networks & Stations >Dr. Deborah Cross MacFarlane has joined public broadcaster Thirteen/WNET New York as director of development and membership. She will lead the station’s efforts to raise funds from individual donors and will be responsible for setting strategic directions and achieving budget and revenue