Business Briefs: National Lampoon, Occidental Petroleum, Univision

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National Lampoon Inc.

has appointed a new chief executive after Jim Jimirro announced his departure from the L.A.-based entertainment company after 14 years.


Daniel Laikin, the chief operating officer since 2002, was named chief executive while Executive Vice President Douglas Bennett was promoted to president, another title Jimirro held.


The two will oversee all National Lampoon media and entertainment arms, including its newly launched National Lampoon Tours division, an effort to convince thousands of college students to book spring-break trips to Mexico.


Jimirro has led National Lampoon since 1990, when his publicly traded company J2 Communications, an independent distributor in home video, acquired the company.






Occidental Petroleum Corp.

said on Monday it has been awarded interests in nine oil exploration blocks in Libya’s first licensing round since U.S. sanctions were lifted last year.


L.A.-based Occidental and other top U.S. oil producers have been vying to re-enter the oil-rich African nation after being forced to abandon operations there when U.S. sanctions were imposed in 1986. President Bush signed an order last year to ease restrictions after Libya agreed to dismantle programs aimed at producing weapons of mass destruction.






Univision Communications Inc.

, the U.S. Spanish-language media giant, said on Monday it has reached a multi-year agreement to offer all of its television products the Univision Network, TeleFutura Network and Galavision Network to Time Warner Cable customers nationwide.


Time Warner Cable, the second largest cable operator in the U.S. with 11 million subscribers, will begin offering the TeleFutura Network to its customers in its San Diego and Palm Springs divisions, along with Corpus Christi, Harlingen and Laredo, Texas; Raleigh, N.C.; and Philadelphia.


The Galavision Network is expected to be rolled out in Waco, Texas; Rochester, N.Y.; Raleigh and Greensboro, N.C.; northeast and western Ohio, Milwaukee and Nebraska.


Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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