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Times Mirror Names VP for Outdoor Life Channel: Peter Englehart was appointed vice president of programming, production and operations of the Outdoor Life channel, a unit of Times Mirror Programming. Englehart, 42, will be responsible for original and acquired programming, studio production and transmission operations for the new channel, scheduled to go on the air this year. Previously, Englehart was director of program planning at ESPN, where he led the development of the ESPN2 channel. Times Mirror Programming was established last year to develop TV programming. The Outdoor Life channel is to be the first offered by the company, which publishes the Los Angeles Times and other newspapers.