Judy Smith, the network's senior vice president of communications, said merely, "We are always interested in opportunities for growth."

Joe Browne, the league's vice president of communications, characterized it as "positive news for the league."

Now he is vice president of communications and public affairs for Publicis, an advertising and media company.

She was told the vice president of communications was busy.

But Mark Ryan, senior vice president of corporate communications, suggested that the company might be able to expand production still further.

As vice president of marketing and communications, it is also her job to bring in $6 million annually to the country's fourth-most-watched public television station.

In the late 1960's, he was vice president and director of corporate communications for Chemical Bank.

Jeffrey Nedelman, vice president of communications for the organization, went further in a telephone interview.

He was previously vice president and director of communications of the company's Chicago agency.

"We took them into the tent," said George Schweitzer, the senior vice president of communications.