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Bringing Brand Emeril Beyond the Food Network (AdAge)
After more than a decade as perhaps the Food Network's most ubiquitous TV chef, Emeril Lagasse is kicking his media empire up a notch. For starters, there's his relationship with Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, which signed Emeril to a 10-year contract worth $50 million in February. He's also distancing himself from the Food Network with the recent shuttering of his longtime cooking show, Emeril Live.

Is it Time for Time to Scale Back its Frequency? (Folio:)
John Brady: U.S. News & World Report is cutting its schedule to biweekly. And now Time, the greatest newsmagazine ever, is in freefall. Readers are bailing, advertising is down (some 30 percent or more when last checked), and one senses that staff resumes are being updated as this is writ. Clearly, the redesign, relaunch, and restaffing has been a disaster. Maybe it should go quarterly.

Ousted Chicago TV Reporter Sues Station (Chicago Tribune)
It took a year, but Amy Jacobson has gone from swimsuit to lawsuit. The former WMAQ-Ch. 5 reporter is seeking more than $1 million in damages from WBBM-Ch. 2 parent CBS, Channel 2 boss Joe Ahern and others, complaining that a tape it aired of her in bathing attire at the home of a potential news source in July 2007 subjected Jacobson to "enormous public humiliation and disgrace."

NBC Loves Wimbledon Ratings (Hollywood Reporter)
Wimbledon final ratings this year? A smash. Sunday's daylong battle between Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal gave NBC its best overnight ratings for a gentlemen's final in eight years, and the best non-U.S. final ratings since 1991. It was the best overnight rating for a men's final since 2000's Pete Sampras-Patrick Rafter (5.0/14), and up 44 percent compared with last year's Federer-Nadal match (3.2/9) that Federer won.

Osbournes Head to Fox (Variety)
Fox has given a six-episode order to an hourlong variety show hosted by Ozzy Osbourne, Sharon Osbourne and their kids, Jack and Kelly. The untitled show from FremantleMedia North America will be exec produced by James Sunderland, an exec producer on Fremantle's NBC series America's Got Talent, on which Sharon serves as a judge.

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