Eisner upped at Lippin

Les Eisner has been promoted to executive vice president at public-relations
firm The Lippin Group, chairman and chief executive Dick Lippin said.

Eisner represents several clients for Lippin, including the National
Association of Television Programming Executives, Tribune Entertainment,
WorldLink Inc., Crown Media Holdings Inc., TV5, Carlton America and DirecTV
Inc.

Most recently, he was senior VP. Eisner joined Lippin, headquartered in Los
Angeles, in 1994.

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Contributing editor Paige Albiniak has been covering the business of television for more than 25 years. She is a longtime contributor to Next TV, Broadcasting + Cable and Multichannel News. She concurrently serves as editorial director for The Global Entertainment Marketing Academy of Arts & Sciences (G.E.M.A.). She has written for such publications as TVNewsCheck, The New York Post, Variety, CBS Watch and more. Albiniak was B+C’s Los Angeles bureau chief from September 2002 to 2004, and an associate editor covering Congress and lobbying for the magazine in Washington, D.C., from January 1997 - September 2002.