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Media Vet Set to Join CLCHICAGO—Carmichael Lynch is expected to name Shane Ankeney as media director, sources said. Ankeney, previously director of media strategy at TBWA\Chiat\Day in Playa del Rey, Calif., will replace Cheryl Jean Claude, who was in the position for just a year. The move will reunite him with former TBWA\C\D media planner Catrina McAuliffe, who joined CL as director of brand planning in July. CL officials declined to comment. Before working at TBWA\C\D, Ankeney was a media director at The Leap Partnership in Chicago; he also worked at J. Walter Thompson here. ONDCP Review Starts With Bid ConfabWASHINGTON—A bidders' conference for interested agencies with questions about the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy's anti-drug campaign will likely take place within the next two weeks, following the release of an RFP on Sept. 6, the federal office said. The Department of Navy, which handles oversight for the campaign, will then appoint a committee of government representatives who will review written submissions from agencies. The committee will make a first cut based on the submissions, and winners of that round will make oral presentations. ONDCP decided to rebid its contract with lead agency, Ogilvy & Mather, New York, after the Department of Justice launched a federal probe of that shop's billing practices. Ogilvy's current $160.3 million contract expires in January. Sony Media Consolidation Gets Under WayLOS ANGELES—Presentations begin this week for Sony Corp.'s consolidated $400 million-plus North American media business, sources said, with the first of three regional media reviews. Sony's European and Asian media accounts are expected to follow the North American search. Globally, Sony spends $1 billion a year. Although Sony has been talking to top executives at the largest media networks for seven months, until now it has not asked for competitive information nor made clear whether it would launch a competition for its media business or simply restructure its global roster assignments. The list includes Bcom3's Starcom Mediavest Group; WPP's MindShare/The Media Edge; Publicis' Zenith Media; IPG's Universal McCann; and Omnicom's OMD. All of the agencies or their sister shops handle Sony business here and abroad. Universal McCann, New York, oversees Sony Pictures. OMD, New York, works with Sony Playstation creative agency TBWA\Chiat\Day, Playa del Rey, Calif. The Media Edge handles Sony's consumer-electronics division out of its New York and Irvine, Calif., offices. Account RoundupCHICAGO—Malone Advertising in Akron, Ohio, has picked up ad duties for the YMCA of Greater Cleveland and is launching a fall membership campaign in mid-September. Billings were not disclosed … HMS Hallmark in Pittsburgh has been assigned the Chloraseptic brand of sore-throat products from Prestige Brands International, which acquired the line in March. The agency plans TV and print for the fall and winter … Global Animal Management, a subsidiary of Schering Plough, has named Swanson Russell Associates in Lincoln, Neb., as lead agency.

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