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ABC was at 0.9/4, with repeated comedies before Designated Survivor fell 9% to 1.0.

Fox and NBC scored a 0.8/3. Fox had Shots Fired at 0.8, down a tenth of a point from last week, and a repeat of Empire.

NBC was in repeats throughout prime.

The CW, at 0.3/1, too was in repeats.

Among Spanish-language players, Univision had a 0.6/2 and Telemundo a 0.5/2.

HRISTOS VAROUHAS was promoted to a global chief strategy officer at TBWA, where he will oversee the dedicated Apple account unit Media Arts Lab. He was previously regional chief strategy officer at TBWA Australia/New Zealand and will be succeeded in that role by MATT SPRINGATE, according to an AgencySpy report. Springate was previously a managing partner and head planner at Grey London.
ALMA DERRICKS was named to the newly created position of chief marketing officer at El Rey Network. She will work out of the network's Los Angeles office. She was most recently VP, sales and marketing for the resident shows division of Cirque du Soleil. Prior to that she held positions at Paramount, United Media, The Los Angeles Times and HBO.
ROSANNE JOHNSON was appointed executive director of client engagement at VML. She was most recently global director, digital lead on the Colgate-Palmolive account at Red Fuse Communications.

PHIL SIMMS will join the CBS studio show The NFL Today as an analyst beginning with the new NFL season. He replaces Tony Gonzalez who left the show after three seasons. Simms recently was replaced as the lead CBS broadcast booth game analyst by Tony Romo. Simms, the former New York Giants quarterback and two-time Super Bowl champion, joins analysts Bill Cowher, Boomer Esiason and Bart Scott on the studio show, along with host James Brown. He had spent 20 years in the CBS NFL broadcast booth.