Hank Close, president of ad sales at MTV Networks, is leaving his position when his contract expires at the end of the year. Close won’t be replaced due to the company’s new sales structure.

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Discovery Communications has promoted Ian Parmiter to senior vice president of integrated advertising sales marketing, effective immediately. Parmiter will be in charge of ad sales sponsorship and partnerships.

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Kerry Knott, senior vice president of government affairs at Comcast, is leaving the company, although he will stay on as strategic counsel. Knott, whose replacement still hasn’t been named, had been with the company for five years.

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USA has signed on actress Emily Rose to star in the pilot “Operating Instructions” (working title), lifting the cast contingency on the project. Rose will star as a trauma surgeon who returns home from a tour of duty to take a position at a military hospital.

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Brides.com has named Linda Kennedy advertising director, effective immediately. Kennedy joins from People.com, where she was advertising manager.

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Premiere Radio Networks has named Alison Horn vice president of music syndication sales, reporting to executive vice president of sales Carol Terakawa. Horn was previously brand solutions manager at KTLA-TV in Los Angeles.

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A mad man should fit in just fine at NBC’s zany sitcom “30 Rock.” Jon Hamm, who plays Don Draper in AMC’s “Mad Men,” is in talks to guest star on the show, whose third-season premiere aired last night. Hamm would play a neighbor of Tina Fey’s character and a possible love interest.

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Actor Bradley Whitford has signed on with NBC to produce and star in its upcoming comedy pilot “Off Duty.” Whitford will play a fading police officer who antagonizes his up-and-coming partner.

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Edith Evans Asbury, a former reporter with The New York Times, died at her home on Thursday at age 98 following two years of declining health. Asbury often covered hard news, a rarity for women in her day, and also interviewed several 20th-century icons, including Amelia Earhart and Georgia O’Keeffe.

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