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• Zoom Lowers The Boom, 20th TV's Kenny Replaces Roche As President by Joe Mandese

  Zoom Media and Marketing, one of the largest operators of digital, place-based media networks, this morning named Judy Kenny president of sales and marketing. She assumes some of the duties of Dennis Roche, who resigned as president-COO of Zoom, and is no longer with the organization. ...Read the whole story

• 'Men' Beats Rivals, Beefs Up CBS Lineup by Wayne Friedman

  Though declining in ratings from its crazy heights in its initial episodes, CBS' "Two and A Half Men" continues to lead all comers on Monday night by a wide margin. ...Read the whole story

• State Farm Continues Hispanic Initiatives by David Goetzl

  State Farm's heavy involvement with Hispanic-targeted programming at NBCUniversal is set to continue with a presenting sponsorship of the "2011 Billboard Mexican Music Awards" on Telemundo later this month. ...Read the whole story

Tablets, Tablets Everywhere by Gary Holmes

Barely a day goes by when there isn't some news about electronic tablets. Tablets threaten to supplant a number of technologies, such as notebooks, music players and DVDs, while providing new platforms for newspapers, magazines and books. But what about over-the-air video? Tablets offer a new outlet for movies and the product previously known as "television." Is this a good thing for the TV industry? A year ago, I'd have scoffed at the idea that tablets would have any impact at all on television but now I'm not so sure. ...More

• New TV Profitability And Definitions: Broadcast Networks... Er... Enterprises Might Find A New Way. by Wayne Friedman

  Now you might define profitability for a TV network by what kind of deal you make with the likes of Netflix. For CW -- and its co-owners, CBS and Warner Bros -- a long-term deal, possibly a billion dollars, with Netflix for the streaming rights to its prime-time shows will put the network in the black, according to Les Moonves, president/CEO of CBS Corp. ...More