Marc Shmuger, left in left photo, and David Linde have led Universal Pictures since Stacey Snider, left in right photo, became chief of DreamWorks, co-founded by the director Steven Spielberg.

The F.C.C. has ordered administrative hearings in the N.F.L.’s programming dispute with Comcast about placing the NFL Network on its digital cable package.

The December issue will be the magazine’s last, as ad pages plummet across the magazine industry.

YouTube said it would start offering full-length episodes of some television shows on its sprawling Web site.

Katie Couric

Tide Total Care and Downy Total Care from Procter & Gamble on display next to clothing at Ann Taylor Loft stores.

The guild’s move against a new television variety show featuring Ozzy Osbourne is part of a continuing dispute over the line between scripted shows and reality programming.

Senator Barack Obama has purchased a half-hour of prime-time network television for a campaign informercial to be broadcast on Oct. 29.

The New York Times Company said Thursday that it had appointed Joseph N. Seibert as chief information officer, and announced additional responsibilities for two other executives.

After employees agreed to buyouts and concessions, the owners of The Star-Ledger, New Jersey’s largest paper, said the paper would not change hands or go out of business.

To see how a product can spread through a community, Vaseline sent a film crew to Alaska.

Sean Hannity

Yi Jianlian, 20, playing for China in the Beijing Olympics.

Tina Brown’s new Web site is offering “sensibility, darling.”

A public service campaign from the Advertising Council will focus for the first time ever on a social issue of concern to gays and lesbians, focusing on teenagers.

Google introduced a new type of e-commerce ad that YouTube users can click to buy digital goods from Apple’s iTunes or Amazon.com.

Where reporters once vied for prime seats in the Capitol’s press room in Albany, empty desks reflect a trend of newspapers cutting back on statehouse reporters.

How to create a campaign projecting confidence in Washington Mutual, to be remembered as having suffered the largest bank failure of its time?

From the 1920s into the 1950s, cigarette ads featured endorsers as varied as babies, Mickey Mantle, doctors and even Santa Claus. An exhibit of these campaigns is on display at the Science, Industry and Business Library in New York and is also online.

Sean Hannity’s executive producer says the weekend program was clearly opinion.

The office of the attorney general, Andrew M. Cuomo, said it planned to file a lawsuit this week against Arbitron, the company that compiles the radio ratings data.

Alfonso Ribeiro, Will Smith’s cousin on “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air,” is the host of “Catch 21.”

Resentment and fear of Google’s power is growing among some of the biggest players in the advertising industry.

Before Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg announced his controversial run for another term, he locked up support of the editorial pages of three city newspapers.