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NBC to Stop Selling Its Shows on iTunes (NYT)
NBC Universal, unable to come to an agreement with Apple on pricing, has decided not to renew its contract to sell digital downloads of television shows on iTunes. The media conglomerate — which is the No. 1 supplier of digital video to Apple's online store, accounting for about 40 percent of downloads — notified Apple of its decision late yesterday.

CBS' Advertisers Eye Kid Nation (NYP)
CBS is giving advertisers a preview of its controversial reality show Kid Nation to allay concerns that children were exploited. The network started screening an early cut this week to advertisers after the show erupted in controversy, including allegations that kids worked unreasonably long hours and suffered injuries.

10 Years Later, Diana Is Still in the Media's Spotlight (BBC)
10 years after she died, Diana, Princess of Wales remains one of the world's great cover stars, selling thousands of books, newspapers and magazines. As the anniversary of her death approaches, she's graced the covers of, among others, Time, the Spectator and the Daily Express, which has kept her memory alive with a loyalty bordering on obsession.

Fearing Fines, PBS to Offer Bleeped Version Of The War (WaPo)
Stations are concerned that four words of profanity in the 14 1/2-hour documentary could subject them to hefty indecency fines. Their worries have prompted Arlington-based PBS to take the unprecedented step of distributing two versions of The War for broadcast next month: Burns's original film and an FCC-friendly version from which the profanity has been removed.

Fall Fashion Mags Claim Page, Weight Records (Folio:)
We grabbed a stack of the biggest, fattest women's fall fashion issues and, like Gawker did last year, literally weighed them — 4,600 pages, some 23 pounds. We also counted the ad pages, number of ad pages before the editor's letter (Vogue: 293!) and, of course, the number of Scarlett Johannson appearances to give an admittedly unscientific picture of the fall books.

Cover Prices for Bauer Titles to Rise (Mediaweek)
Bauer Publishing, which built its business on the low newsstand cover price model, will raise prices on most of its 11 titles. In Touch and Life & Style will go up to $2.99 from $1.99. First for Women will go to $2.49 from $1.99; and Woman's World to $1.79 from $1.49. Teen titles J-14 and M will go to $3.99 from $2.99. Soaps in Depth will go to $3.99 from $3.50. The increases will take effect at the end of October and early November. Folio:: These proposed price changes are significant to the industry because of Bauer's enormous newsstand scale. It annually sells 220 million copies (much more than any other publisher) of its nine audited publications. This represents 25 percent of the total audited publications sold at newsstand.

CBS Taps Ross as Producer for Early Show (Variety)
CBS News is expected to announce it has named former Good Morning America executive producer Shelley Ross to run The Early Show, in the second major shakeup at the third-place breakfastcast in two years. The network had planned to name Ross this week but delayed the formal announcement until after Labor Day.

TNT Won't Pull Law & Order When Thompson Declares (B&C)
Now that Law & Order co-star Fred Thompson has signaled his plans to announce his presidential candidacy on Sept. 6, TNT, which airs voluminous repeats of the show, says that it has "no plans to alter its programming schedule." The show is scheduled to run on the cable network 23 times next week.

Eight of 10 Americans Know What a Blog Is (WebProNews)
Awareness and usage of blogs, along with people writing their own correlates to age, with younger people being more active. Close to 90 percent of people ages 25 to 34 know what a blog is, compared to 65 percent of those 65 and over. 78 percent of those ages 18 to 24 who are aware of blogs have visited a blog, compared to 45 percent of older Americans.

New Online Video Web Sites Aim for 'TV Experience' (AP)
Watching video online in small, fuzzy boxes is heading the way of rabbit ears. Some highly anticipated Web sites are being modeled on making the experience of watching video online more like watching television. This new wave of applications is led by Joost and includes VeohTV and Babelgum. Though all are in beta [testing] phases, the hype has been mounting.

Fox to Send Fake News Vans Out in 4 Cities to Promote New Sitcom (NYT)
The vans, decorated to look like the news trucks deployed by local TV stations, will cruise the streets of Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles and New York over Labor Day weekend. They will carry the call letters WURG, for the name of the make-believe Channel 9 in Pittsburgh, where the new show, Back to You, is set.

Who's Afraid of Google? (Economist)
Google is often compared to Microsoft, but its evolution is actually closer to that of the banking industry. Just as financial institutions grew to become repositories of people's money, and thus guardians of private information about their finances, Google is now turning into a custodian of a far wider and more intimate range of information about individuals.

New Mags Target Boomers (BusinessWeek)
Do baby boomers really want to be reminded of their age? ELDR, GeezerJock and other new magazines, along with such Web sites as Eons.com and the forthcoming TBD.com, are betting they do. Such outfits are part of a land rush for the audience AARP has long owned with AARP The Magazine (known until 2003 as Modern Maturity).

Times Journos Peddle News Corp./Dow Jones Book (NYP)
Two journalists from The New York Times are peddling a book proposal about the takeover of Dow Jones by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. The book project was originally put together by star business columnist Joseph Nocera and his boss, Times business editor Larry Ingrassia. As of yesterday, however, Nocera had already bailed out of the project.

The Russians and Their Unintentionally Hilarious Washington Post Ad Supplement (Slate)
Jack Shafer: Soviet propaganda hit the skids during the Gorbachev era, and as the empire broke up, its propaganda essentially vanished. But the heavy-handed purveyors of party-line orthodoxy and nationalist can't have returned with the rise of President Vladimir Putin, and a demonstration of this lost art's resurgence can be found in an ad supplement to yesterday's Post.