Bill Carter

With news available more places than ever, on cable channels and Internet sites, and with revenue challenged by heavy dependence on shrinking advertising dollars, the future for the news divisions at ABC and CBS remains deeply insecure.

Faced with the failure of the biggest recent gamble in television, NBC is shuffling its late-night deck one more time. The change, if completed, would represent a retreat from the network's strategy of replacing Mr. Leno, who drove "The Tonight Show" to the top of the late-night ratings, with the younger, hipper Mr. O'Brien, then trying to save money in prime time by replacing expensive dramas with Mr. Leno's show at 10 p.m.

Is Glenn Beck using his show to sell gold?

Apparently, General Electric has reached a tentative agreement with the French media conglomerate Vivendi that clears the way for the sale of NBC Universal, including the flagship NBC network, to Comcast, the nation's largest cable operator.

Oprah Winfrey is fleeing broadcast television for cable. NBC, once arguably the biggest cultural tastemaker in the United States, is being shopped to Comcast, the country's largest cable company. Have we finally reached a tipping point that suggests a remarkable decline in the fortunes of broadcast television in America?

Television network executives have fallen in love with a former tormentor: the digital video recorder. Why? DVR users watch more commercials than you'd guess.

The DVR is television's frenemy.

Diane Sawyer will succeed Charles Gibson as the anchor of ABC's "World News."

While most of the attention, starting in June, has focused on the fight between the new host of NBC's "Tonight Show," Conan O'Brien, and his CBS rival, David Letterman, ABC's venerable news program "Nightline" has managed mostly to fly under the radar — in an upward trajectory.

Does Shepard Smith belong at Fox News? He believes he does, even though he's irritated Rush Limbaugh, teased Glenn Beck and grilled Samuel J. Wurzelbacher (a k a Joe the Plumber) over his attacks on President Obama.