Hasta La Creative!

Sony, Universal, Warner and ABKCO, an independent label, said the satellite service used recordings from before 1972 without permission.

New Time Inc. CEO Joe Ripp told roughly 300 employees at a town hall-style meeting Wednesday that the company’s executive suite has been a place “where ideas go to die,” according to staffers who were present.

“If I have my way I’m going to close that damn thing down,” Mr. Ripp said, addressing an audience of managers and executives.

The company, the publisher of magazines such as People and Sports Illustrated, is keenly looking to Mr. Ripp for clues to its uncertain future. Parent company Time Warner plans to spin Time Inc. off into an independent company early next year, and Mr. Ripp last week became the third Time Inc. CEO in three years.

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The service could pose a threat to Pandora Media, which dominates Internet radio.

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Pandora has turned to the advertising industry for its new chief executive, naming Brian McAndrews the Internet radio company’s CEO, president and chairman on Wednesday.

Mr. McAndrews replaces Joe Kennedy, who has served as Pandora’s CEO since 2004. The company announced in March that it had begun a search for Mr. Kennedy’s successor. Mr. McAndrews was president and CEO of early online advertising company aQuantive, onetime owner of early digital ad agency Razorfish, ad-server Atlas and ad network DrivePM. Microsoft bought aQuantive for $6 billion in 2007 — its largest acquisition at the time — in a bid to keep up with Google, which had just bought DoubleClick.

“No one better understands the intersection of technology and advertising, which he clearly demonstrated during aQuantive’s meteoric rise. He has a recognized ability to set strategy, lead large teams and drive growth and innovation at great scale,” said Pandora founder and chief strategy officer Tim Westergren in a company statement.

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Carter Murray was hired as DraftFCB’s new CEO in March, but has been sitting on the sidelines for the past six months, thanks to a previous employment contract at WPP’s Y&R.

As of this week, Mr. Murray — who previously spent a combined dozen years at Publicis Groupe’s Leo Burnett and Publicis — has officially started in the post. And all eyes are on him to see what changes he’ll make at the Interpublic Group of Cos. network, one of the holding company’s biggest and most important assets.

He doesn’t seem to be wasting any time making his presence felt throughout the network, by making senior appointments and meeting with key clients. Mr. Murray today named Jonathan Harries — who was planning on leaving DraftFCB at the end of the year — the agency’s global chief creative officer, a reprisal of the role for Mr. Harries. He also named Elyssa Phillips, exec VP-worldwide creative manager, the agency’s chief of staff.

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Marketers including AT&T are getting schooled on the fact that jumping in on the social conversation around national tragedies is not the safest arena for real-time marketing.

A handful of brands are being smacked around today for posting 9/11 commemoration tweets perceived as inane at best and insensitive at worst. AT&T received the brunt of the outrage after tweeting a picture of the beams of light shooting up from the Twin Towers site, captured in the screen of a phone that’s poised to take a photo, with the text “Never Forget.”

The tweet was promptly removed, and AT&T issued an apology.

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