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Drew Carey Named New Price Is Right Host (B&C)
Carey announced that he will replace Bob Barker as the host of The Price is Right during Monday's taping of the Late Show with David Letterman. Speculation about Carey assuming the sought-after spot had been building since his appearance last week at the CBS portion of the Television Critics Association tour to promote the upcoming prime time game show he is hosting, Power of 10. NYDN: Carey ended up with a job that Rosie O'Donnell publicly said she coveted — and that Barker said she should get. But after meeting with show producers, O'Donnell said they wanted the show to remain in Los Angeles and she didn't want to move her family from New York.

YouTube Presidential Debate Blazes Trail (LAT)
A mix of serious policy talk and sophomoric humor, the session sponsored by CNN and YouTube broke ground in style and content. The candidates responded to more than three dozen homemade videos — including a query from a snowman asking in falsetto about global warming — among nearly 3,000 submitted from around the world. WaPo: It was hardly the dawn of a new age in democracy, but last night's debate at least proved itself a novelty, writes Tom Shales. TVNewser: CNN's "hype machine."

Campbell Brown Leaves CNBC for CNN (AP via HuffPo)
CNN said Monday that it has hired Campbell Brown of NBC News to anchor a nightly news and talk show, one day after she announced on Weekend Today that she would be leaving as host there. Brown won't be on the air until at least November — a month before she's due to deliver her first baby — and CNN wouldn't say exactly where at the network she will land. NYT: The announcement makes official a move that had been foreshadowed by various news organizations.

Family Talks About Fate of Dow Jones Called 'Not Acrimonious' (NYT)
In their last meeting before an expected vote on selling to Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, the family that controls Dow Jones & Company, owner of the Wall Street Journal, heard arguments for and against the deal yesterday from family members and advisers. There was no debate, they said, only a series of speeches. And as expected, the family was deeply divided; people close to them said the vote was too close to call. WaPo: Both sides expect that the Bancrofts will vote their shares in coming days, meaning an agreement could be reached as early as tomorrow. MIN: Will Rupe be Time's "Person of the Year?" AdAge: The recent focus on Rupert Murdoch's tabloid values has only reminded Simon Dumenco exactly how much he values the New York Post.

Rather: Odds Getting Longer for Couric (TV Week)
Former CBS anchor Dan Rather said yesterday that he doesn't know whether Katie Couric is the right person to lead Evening News, noting it will take more time to determine whether viewers embrace her. Rather said any disappointment with the ratings for Evening News under Couric must be analyzed in context of the high expectations created by CBS executives.

Doubts Raised About TNR's 'Baghdad Diarist' (NYT)
Just who is the "Baghdad Diarist"? It is a question that many people are asking The New Republic, the Washington political magazine that has been running articles attributed to an American soldier in Baghdad. The author, who used the pen name Scott Thomas, has written three articles for the magazine since February. Last week, The Weekly Standard questioned the veracity of the articles and invited readers with knowledge about the military or Baghdad to comment.

Radio Plan: A Price Shift for Satellite (NYT)
Hoping to persuade skeptical regulators to approve their proposed merger, the nation's two satellite radio companies announced detailed plans Monday to give consumers the ability to choose the programs that make up their subscription package. The announcement, coming the day before the period for receiving comments on the proposal closes at the Federal Communications Commission, was an effort to persuade the agency that the merger was in the public interest. Reuters via LAT: The two companies, which together marked more than $1.7 billion in losses in 2006, said the so-called a la carte packages would work only on satellite radios that have yet to be sold by either company.

Vibe Vixen to Fold (Mediaweek)
Less than two weeks after being named CEO of Vibe Media Group, Steve Aaron announced the company would fold the female counterpart to urban music and lifestyle magazine Vibe. Vixen will cease as a regularly published title with the August/September issue, and starting in the fourth quarter the company will begin publishing Vixen as special issues focusing on urban culture themes.

Dauman Is Redstone's Heir Apparent (NYP)
If only Viacom chairman Sumner Redstone felt the same way about his daughter Shari as he does about company CEO Philippe Dauman. Responding to a report Sunday — in which sources close to Viacom say that Dauman's new position as "viable successor" to Redstone may eventually bring the ax down on him — the mercurial octogenarian leapt to the Viacom CEO's defense, effectively ordaining him as the chosen one — or as close to being the chosen one as one can be working under Redstone.

AOL to Buy Web Ad Targeting Company Tacoda (NYP)
After acquiring its way into the video and mobile ad-serving marketplace, CEO Randy Falco is moving AOL into the behavorial-targeting ad market with a deal to purchase Tacoda. Sources said AOL is paying between $200 million and $300 million in a deal that could be announced as early as today.

Tribune Sale at Issue as Newspaper Woes Mount (AP via E&P)
Billionaire real estate investor Sam Zell was viewed as a savior in some quarters last spring when he swooped in to orchestrate an $8.2 billion buyout offer for Tribune Co. amid tepid interest for the ailing newspaper publisher. Now the industry's accelerating decline has some Wall Street experts wondering whether the deal for the parent company of the Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times and Chicago Cubs could fall apart.

In the Age of Blogging, Editors Are Needed More Than Ever (Salon)
Gary Kamiya: Here's to you, editors, whose names never appear on an article, who are unknown except to their peers and to the writers who owe you so much. Keep fitting those delicate pieces of wood together. Use the skill it took you years to acquire. Don't give up and just slap the thing together. Make it light and tight and strong so that it sings. Someone is noticing. Someone is reading. Someone cares.

Quirky Hamptons Paper, Reading for Rich, Is Sold (NYT)
Dan's Papers — a free weekly newspaper whose quirky coverage of the Hamptons is required reading for the rich, the famous and those who wish they were — has been sold to a company that owns more than 80 newspapers, mainly in Ohio. The price was between $19 million and $20 million, according to someone with knowledge of the deal but who did not want to be named because the sale had not yet closed.

Wired's L.A. Show House Is All Green and Part Cookie (MIN)
Wired publisher Jay Lauf, who is about to celebrate his first anniversary, says the LivingHome is in Los Angeles' affluent Brentwood neighborhood, near chez Schwarzenegger, and 75 percent of the home is being constructed with materials that are either reused or repurchased. When it opens, probably in late October, visitors will see a home with solar heating and cooling (including a solar-powered weather station), windows and doors built with recycled glass and aluminum and a low-water-use washing machine and dishwasher.

NBC Sued After Dateline Suicide (AP via LAT)
The sister of a man who was suspected of being a sexual predator and who killed himself as the cameras of "Dateline NBC" closed in on him, sued NBC Universal Inc. for $105 million Monday. Patricia Conradt's brother, Bill Conradt Jr., shot himself in November in a Dallas suburb as police knocked at his door and a camera crew for the newsmagazine waited in the street.