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Iranian Newspaper to Publish Holocaust Cartoon Contest (Reuters via WaPo)
Iran's best-selling newspaper has launched a competition to find the best cartoon about the Holocaust in retaliation for the publication in many European countries of caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad. NYT: Protesters in Philadelphia want paper to apologize for running Prophet Muhammad caricatures.

Disney to Merge ABC Radio and Citadel (AP)
Disney and Citadel will form a new company to be called Citadel Communications. Disney shareholders will own approximately 52 percent of the combined entity with Citadel shareholders owning the rest. The deal does not includes Disney's ESPN and Radio Disney network.

TW Sells Off Book Unit (NYT)
Time Warner Inc. agreed to sell its Time Warner Book Group, the country's fifth-largest publisher of general-interest books, for $537.5 million to French firm Lagardere. MIN: Inside Time Warner layoffs, financial maneuverings. CNN/Money: Expect fireworks as Icahn zeroes in on TW.

NBC Devising Contingencies for Life After Katie (TMZ)
Insiders directly connected with NBC News say Meredith Vieira is now first choice to replace Katie Couric if she leaves Today. There's also talk of expanding Today to four hours.

Super Bowl Draws 90.7M Viewers (Hollywood Reporter)
Super Bowl XL came up big for ABC, scoring an average of 90.7 million viewers—not only the most-watched Super Bowl in 10 years but also the most-watched TV program since 1996.

Pioneering TV News Producer Reuven Frank Dies (AP via USAT)
Reuven Frank, a television news producer whose career at NBC ran from Huntley and Brinkley (whom he first paired on the evening news in the 1950's) to Tom Brokaw (whom he installed as a solo anchor in the 1980's), died Sunday at Englewood Hospital in New Jersey.

Administration's Budget Slashes PBS (MediaCitizen)
Timothy Karr: President Bush's proposed 2007 budget calls for $671.9 million for the federal agency that supervises all U.S. government non-military propaganda, and cuts by more than $53 million money set aside for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

ABC's Anchor Chair 'Cursed' (Page Six)
"First, Peter Jennings dies of cancer. He's replaced by Elizabeth Vargas and Bob Woodruff. Then, Vargas' husband is shot in the head and almost killed. Then, Woodruff is almost killed by a bomb in Iraq. I wouldn't want to be the guy who fills in now for Woodruff!" says tipster Thomas Stomach.

Out of EIC Options? (WWD)
How long can a magazine go without an editor in chief? Out magazine publisher LPI Media seems intent on finding out, with the search for a successor to Brendan Lemon pushing into its fifth month.

CNET to Sell Mag Biz (CNN)
The company said it will sell its Computer Shopper magazine to a newly formed company called SX2 Media Labs LLC and will no longer report publishing revenue as a separate item starting with the first quarter.

What Are J-Students Learning From Bonnie? (AdAge)
Simon Dumenco: Can't we just admit, finally, once and for all, that Bonnie Fuller certainly does something compelling and entertaining, but it is not, for the most part, journalism? Her publications, after all, routinely rely on "sources" that again and again prove to be ... shall we say, wrong?

UFW Strikes Back at LAT (TruthDig)
Blair Golson: On four successive days last month, the Los Angeles Times published a damning investigative series on the United Farm Workers, the nationwide agricultural union founded by Cesar Chavez 40 years ago. But the paper has been reluctant to address the UFW's 101-page rebuttal.

Wondertime Party Time (MIN)
Wondertime publisher Dave Mevorah says that get-acquainted events in several cities serve as "thank-yous" for the 70 ad-page support in Disney Publishing's just-released premiere. He says the mag's positioning vis-a-vis its competitors, is on "child development rather than how moms cope."

—David S. Hirschman