Federal regulators on Tuesday said they would seek to determine whether to establish new ownership limits for cable operators.

In the latest sign of advertisers' heightened sensitivity to editorial coverage, embattled financial giant Morgan Stanley informed key publications of new guidelines that require its ads to be pulled as negative stories about it are published.

It's ba-a-a-ck! Next week the much buzzed-about, now better-financed new issue of Radar magazine hits the newsstands. Though it's called the "premiere issue" in its official Radar magazine "Fact Sheet," it is, in fact, the third issue of the magazine that Editor Maer Roshan has been trying to start for the past three years.

Newsweek magazine issued a retraction Monday of a May 9 report on the alleged desecration of the Quran at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

The "Today" show's lead over "Good Morning America" dwindled to perhaps 70,000 viewers last week, according to early estimates provided yesterday to NBC and ABC by Nielsen Media Research.

High-definition television? Cool. Pausing and rewinding live TV? Wow. Getting that stuff to work as promised? Good luck. Paying the bill? Ouch. Those gee-whizzy new video products offered by cable- and satellite-TV providers may be compelling, but for some customers they're also confounding.

There's plenty of opportunity to criticize Newsweek for its botched report on Gitmo that touched off days of rioting. The magazine relied on an unnamed source -- an increasingly controversial if age-old Washington practice -- who turned out not to know what he was talking about.

Subscriptions to XM Satellite Radio have passed 4 million, the company announced Monday, and its latest million were added in less than five months. The company said it is on target to sign up 5.5 million subscribers by year's end. Its long-term goal is to convert some 20 million by 2010.

Newspaper publishers are facing a potential Hollywood problem. Movie studios have significantly increased their ad spending in newspapers in recent years, but with shrinking ticket sales and an array of new places to advertise, that trend may be tapering off.

Executives at National Public Radio are increasingly at odds with the Bush appointees who lead the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. In one of several points of conflict in recent months, the chairman of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which allocates federal funds for public radio and television, is considering a plan to monitor Middle East coverage on NPR news programs for evidence of bias, a corporation spokesman said on Friday.