NEW YORK John Colasanti, CEO of Minneapolis-based Interpublic Group shop Carmichael Lynch, will leave effective April 1, the agency said today.

BOSTON Building on new-business momentum it enjoyed for most of last year, independent Cramer-Krasselt in Chicago has been selected as lead agency by financial services firm Edward Jones.

NEW YORK Interpublic Group's McCann Erickson here has expanded its relationship with Major League Baseball, adding ad chores for MLB Network, the league's cable and satellite TV franchise that launched on Jan. 1.

NEW YORK RadioShack has launched a review of creative duties on its advertising account, the client said today. The Fort Worth, Texas-based company spent more than $125 million in media in 2007 and $90 million in the first 10 months of 2008.

NEW YORK The Ogilvy Group today cut about 10 percent of its staff across multiple units in response to client spending reductions that exceed the WPP Group shop's new business growth, sources said. (Shown: Miles Young, worldwide CEO of Ogilvy.)

NEW YORK Quentin George has been appointed chief digital officer at Mediabrands, the management arm for IPG's media units including Initiative and Universal McCann.

NEW YORK Google continues to widen the gap between it and all other competitors in the search race, while rival Microsoft has actually lost search users over the past year despite paying people to use its services, according to the latest figures issued by Nielsen Online.

NEW YORK Macrovision has pulled the plug on a preexisting deal to sell TV Guide Network, opting instead to unload the property to the film studio Lionsgate in exchange for $255 million in cash.

LOS ANGELES Healthcare firm WellPoint has hired Deutsch in Marina del Rey, Calif., for its creative chores, the Interpublic Group agency said today.

NEW YORK Leo Burnett will pay $15.5 million to resolve allegations that it overbilled the U.S Army when it handled the military service's account between 2000 and 2006, the U.S Department of Justice said today. The settlement resolves a 4 1/2-year civil lawsuit filed by former Burnett staffers Greg Hamilton and Michelle Casey on behalf of the U.S. government, according to a press release that the DOJ issued today. Hamilton and Casey will receive a share of the settlement -- $2.79 million.

NEW YORK Whether or not there are price increases in the 2009 network TV upfront, the posturing season has begun. The CEO of at least one network -- CBS -- believes it will command price increases in this upfront.

Crispin Porter + Bogusky, Adweek's U.S. Agency of the Year for 2008, reeled in another big consumer brand last year with Old Navy, in addition to Hulu, Activision's Guitar Hero game, Aliph Jawbone and the nonprofit Save the Children. In June, it added the Zune business from Microsoft's Entertainment and Devices unit. It also grew revenue by an estimated 15 percent year over year, to $138 million, on billings of $1.33 billion, its seventh straight year of double-digit revenue gains. All the while, Crispin continued to produce provocative work for clients including BK and VW.

Adweek's Global AOY for '08 is TBWA. All told, the agency grew worldwide revenue by 4 percent, on a billings gain of about $1 billion. What's more, The agency's work consistently pierces pop culture with bold, iconic imagery that is steeped in simplicity. (Shown: Colleen DeCourcy and Tom Carroll.)

What does Whopper love smell like? It's "the scent of seduction with a hint of flame-broiled meat," as captured by Flame, the body spray from Burger King.

In a conversation with senior reporter Andrew McMains, Tom Carroll, CEO of TBWA, Adweek's Global Agency of the Year, reflected on the shop's marquee wins, why the Playa del Rey, Calif., office is the "driving force" of the network and why Crispin reminds him of the old Chiat/Day.

NEW YORK The chain, which is continuing its expansion West of the Mississippi, has pledged in excess of $100 million to promote its new motivational messaging.

NEW YORK 2009 is going to be a challenging year for online video, social networking, and pretty much any segment of the Web publishing world dependent on brand advertising.

NEW YORK Media agency company Aegis today declined comment on reports that it is conducting a strategic review of business options such as divesting its research arm Synovate and an alliance with Paris-based Havas. (Shown: Havas' chairman Vincent Bollore.)

After watching the latest installment of the World's Funniest Commercials on TBS, I thought they should change the name of the program to the World's Most Depressing Show Ever, With Host Kevin Nealon Personifying the Abject Sadness. The funniest of the funny, chosen by online voting at TBS's Web site, was Bud Light's "Cut the Cheese." (It could have been funny if it had cut more than the cheese, like at least half of the endless fart jokes.) Afterward, I resolved, in my own "bloviating" way, to pack up and move to France. But then I remembered that the French commercials on the reel were even worse.

It has become increasingly difficult for the network television business to maintain profitability with a steadily shrinking audience and a financial model that relies primarily on one revenue stream, advertising. (Jay Leno is shown.)