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TiVo and Amazon Team Up (NYT)
TiVo, the Silicon Valley company that introduced millions to the joy of skipping television commercials, is trying to crack a decades-old media dream. It wants to turn the television remote control into a tool for buying the products being advertised and promoted on commercials and talk shows.

Couric: Viewers Are Afraid of Change (Haaretz)
"I have no doubt in my heart that I made the right move, accepting the CBS offer," said CBS anchor Katie Couric. "I would have regretted it otherwise. It's true that the pressure was immense and the expectations almost impossible. One person cannot perform such miracles and transform a whole network on his own."

CBS: 46% of TV Audiences Watch Network's Shows Online (Mediaweek)
According to a new report issued by CBS Interactive, less than half of the network's online audience (46 percent) primarily views their favorite shows online, and most say that the wide availability of these shows across the Internet does not impact their TV viewing. 35 percent of the nearly 50,000 streamers surveyed reported that they are more likely to view shows on the network as a result of having been exposed to content on the Web.

Gossip Girl Again Streaming Online (TV Week)
The CW has lifted its ban on Internet streaming of Gossip Girl. The network made headlines last spring when it announced it would stop streaming episodes of the buzzworthy soap opera on its website. At the time, CW executives described it as an experiment. Turns out the experiment didn't quite work out.

LA Times RIP? (Los Angeles Mag)
Kit Rachlis: When historians get around to 2008, it's likely they will say it was the year the Los Angeles Times died. No, I don't think the paper will fold between now and December. But I do fear the paper will be so diminished, so crippled, that the chance of saving it will have slipped away.

'All-Black' Italian Vogue White Hot at the Newsstand (Folio)
When Italian Vogue announced that its July issue would feature all black models, it caused a relatively major stir in the fashion world. Now that the issue has arrived, it seems to be causing a major publishing stir, too. Following a couple weeks of newsstand sell-outs, reports of frenzied searches for copies and the accompanying hype, Conde has decided to reprint the issue.

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