Future of '60 Minutes Wednesday' in Doubt
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Dan Rather may not have a chance to work very long on the program that he expected would be his next professional address, CBS's "60 Minutes Wednesday."
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The question on many people&#8217;s minds since the recent PR warfare between Google/YouTube and Viacom (and NBC) is: will YouTube retain its dominance or will it be supplanted by another site? That&#8217;s the same question that circulates around Google itself of course.  Two thoughts: 1. The &#8220;Head&#8221;: Professionally produced content is critical to YouTube&#8217;s long-term strength  Lazy Sunday, [...]
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Fred ThompsonÃ¢ÂÂs latecomer strategy could work. Skipping tonightÃ¢ÂÂs Republican presidential debate to instead announce his candidacy with comic Jay Leno on NBCÃ¢ÂÂs Ã¢ÂÂTonight Show,Ã¢ÂÂ combined with running his first television ad during the GOP debate, already has garnered more news media coverage than a conventional launch might have done.
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4Kids Entertainment got karate-chopped last week. Can it get back up off the mat?
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LOS ANGELES  - CBS has postponed the  fall premieres of "60 Minutes," "The King of Queens" and new  comedy series "Center of the Universe" by a week to make room  for "A Dr. Phil Primetime Special: Family First."
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The splashiest product news is likely on hold till next week's show, but there's still plenty to chew on while we wait.
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Media & professional: BBC1 controller - under fire over the 'Queen tantrum' row - could have his fate decided on Wednesday.
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Viewers may want to brace themselves for a lot of jury-rigged entertainment if writers and producers do not come to an agreement on a new contract by the end of the month.
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Over on the Rojo blog  Chris writes:  "Thanks very much to Steve Gillmor for alerting us to a bug in how we, and other aggregators, were parsing New York Times RSS feeds. In short, stories older than 7 days or so were linking to abstracts of the articles, not the full articles themselves. This is something we will fix. Steve speculated that perhaps the "Times doesn't want server-based aggregators such as Bloglines and Rojo to consistently allow permalink access beyond seven days." Fortunately we don't see any evidence of that and in fact believe NYT has done a great job in making their content available via RSS, particularly by including a specific "partner" parameter on the URL for RSS aggr ...
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Media & professional: Last week the BBC Trustees queried its impartiality. Not everyone agreed, writes James Robinson.
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Politicians beware: Parody is returning. The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report will resume production on Jan. 7 without their striking writers, the Comedy Central network announced Thursday
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A big question late-night hosts face when most of them return to the screen on Wednesday night is: How are they going to be funny without writers?
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TV viewers hooked on cliffhanger episodes of hit shows such as "Heroes" and "Grey's Anatomy" could be left dangling if writers walk off the job.
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NBC is in trouble -- can new management save the day?
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The Sporting News - Questions to ponder while wondering if the Trail Blazers' run for the playoffs is coming to a halt in February?
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It's the end of an era, but the national broadcaster's decision may have more to do with money than animal rights
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American TV audiences may not have the Simpson family to kick   around much longer.