New Marketing VPs for Turner's Young Adults & Kids Media Group

ATLANTA, December 2:
Turner Broadcasting's Animation, Young Adults & Kids Media group has named
Vicky Free as VP of 360 consumer marketing and Tracy Barash as VP of brand
development.

Free will be responsible
for overseeing multiplatform consumer marketing plans for Adult Swim, Cartoon
Network and all digital brands that are part of the group's division, including
CartoonNetwork.com, AdultSwim.com and Cartoon Network New Media. Free comes
from Turner Entertainment Networks, where she served as VP of entertainment
marketing for TBS, TCM and TNT, leading the Emerging Markets and Partnerships
business unit.

Barash will take on
responsibility for brand health and development of the group's brands across
all platforms and work collaboratively with the marketing, creative and
research groups to integrate consumer insights into brand and business
strategies. Barash joins the company from the Warner Bros. Consumer Products
group, where she was director of global themed entertainment.

Free and Barash both are
based in Atlanta and report directly to Brenda Freeman, the chief marketing
officer for Turner Broadcasting's Animation, Young Adults & Kids Media
group.

"Both Vicky and Tracy
have tremendous experience building multiplatform marketing programs for the
entertainment and consumer products industries," said Freeman. "We're
delighted that they are joining our team to focus on creating effective new
ways to reach today's kid and young adult audiences, whose media-viewing habits
are both non-traditional and quick to change."

—By Kristin
Brzoznowski