NBC's "Today" show, is heading into the fall TV season with a new co-host -- Ann Curry -- and a challenge to its 15-year dominance -- ABC. Curry joined Matt Lauer as "Today" co-host in June, to replace Meredith Vieira. Both "Today" and ABC's "Good Morning America" attract more viewers than a year ago, but NBC's lead has shrunk to a four-year-low, Nielsen reports.

Since Curry became co-host, "Today" is averaging 5.03 million viewers daily, up 6.7% from 2010, while ABC's "Good Morning America" is averaging 4.46 million, up 15%.

The gains by "Good Morning America" have been driven by its guests, including President Barack Obama, former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Donald Trump, according to Harry Keeshan, chief investment officer at Omnicom Group's PHD USA media planning and buying unit in New York. Its clients include Safeway Inc. and HBO. Read the whole story...

An aggregator before it became a dirty word, a blogger before there were blogs, the go-to source for news about the news plans to retire from his eponymous blog on the Poynter Institute Web site early next year to start his own site that will cover media plus other topics in which he is interested.

"I'm not going to be doing three-sentence summaries of other people's work. That's behind me," Romenesko tells Jeremy W. Peters.

But not, apparently, behind us. Read the whole story...

USA Network scored its sixth consecutive summer ratings cable TV win, according to an Adweek article. The network grew its nightly audience by 3% while the 18-49 demographic increased by 2%.

The network's new shows, "Suits" and "Necessary Roughness," were two of cable's most watched new programs. Disney Channel came in second and TNT came in third. Read the whole story...

"1984" is a given, but the remaining 9 are worth a watch, too. Read the whole story...