WSJ., the year-old glossy magazine from The Wall Street Journal, is going against conventional Web wisdom with the addition of two issues to its quarterly calendar next year. While the quarterly issues will continue to be in print, the new issues in July and October will be online only. The bulk of the material in the online issues will go live all at once, with some updated content in between. In contrast, most online titles parcel material out gradually as a way to generate regular visitors. The magazine had previously experimented with two small online-only issues that …

TiVo says that shows nominated for Emmys are also the ones that are most often viewed in time-shifted mode, which makes them likelier candidates for ad-skipping. For instance, "30 Rock," winner of an Emmy for outstanding comedy series, is viewed in time-shifted mode 74% of the time in TiVo households -- which is 6% higher than the average sitcom. Every show nominated in the sitcom category exceeded the average time-shifting mode, with "Weeds" being time-shifted 90% of the time and "How I Met Your Mother" lowest at 69%. Since you might assume good shows are more TiVo-worthy than …

Clear Channel Spectacolor, the outdoor digital signage arm of Clear Channel, will aggregate ad sales for five of the largest digital billboards in New York's Times Square. The initiative, called Times Square Domination, pulls together sign owners Spectacolor, Nasdaq, Reuters, News Corp. and ABC Sports and Entertainment to cooperate and sell the signs together. A buy across Times Square Domination's five screens, based on current rates, would likely run well into the $500,000 to $750,000 range, according to buyer estimates. Times Square sees 565,000 visitors daily, 47 million annually. "Buying all these signs at one time had been …

In an arrangement between ABC and Entertainment Weekly, the magazine hosted Eric Stonestreet and Jesse Tyler Ferguson, two stars of the new comedy "Modern Family," who tweeted during the series' premiere last night on ABC. The stars' commentary appeared live on EW.com. The show focuses on three dysfunctional families and is shot in a documentary style. The tweeting actors play a gay couple that adopts a Vietnamese baby. The celebrity magazine billed the Twitter effort as its "first live-tweet."

Starting in October, retailer Ikea will start offering free cooking seminars as part of an ad deal cooked up by Meredith's Family Circle. The classes are part of a five-city tour called "Food University Presented by Family Circle." It kicks off in Seattle and features chefs demonstrating recipes from the magazine. Ikea, sole sponsor of the tour, will increase its buy of ads pages in Family Circle as part of the deal. The furniture company has been supportive of the magazine industry lately. It increased its magazine spend in the Jan.-June 2009 period to $7.1 million, or 15% of …

Dow Jones will cease publishing Far Eastern Economic Review, its Asian news magazine, effective with the December issue. Starting then, Dow Jones will feature more content from Asia within the Wall Street Journal and its other remaining properties. Hugo Restall, the mag's editor since October 2004 -- two months before the magazine switched to a monthly frequency -- will continue to serve on the WSJ editorial board. Far Eastern Economic Review was launched in 1946 by Eric Halpern, an immigrant from Vienna, and was based in Hong Kong.

Sen. Benjamin L. Cardin, D-Md., early this year introduced a bill that would allow newspapers to reorganize themselves as nonprofits. But the last thing newspapers need is the sort of help from the government that turns them into NPR, "endlessly begging for contributions, pursuing wealthy philanthropists, and standing in line for government handouts," says Slate. A previous round of government intervention damaged the newspaper business in the cities where the feds approved joint operating agreements, which have basically failed. The government's attempt to prop up newspapers with rewrites of the tax code or Sarkozy-esque direct subsidies of government …

Parts of the media and entertainment business will remain attractive investment targets despite economic challenges, say private equity and venture capital execs. To woo investors, media companies need to continue to cut costs while investing in the future, says Bain Capital managing director Ian Loring, whose private-equity firm has stakes in Clear Channel and The Weather Channel. Aileen Lee of VC firm Kleiner Perkins, says the financial crisis and recession have led to a shakeout in the venture space, which means fewer venture firms. She says social-media companies will remain key targets for VC players and that commerce …

An independent media ratings auditor has found "persistent problems" with Arbitron's Portable People Meter that tracks radio audiences, according to the House Oversight Committee and its Chairman Edolphus Towns, D-N.Y. According to the Oversight Committee, the Media Rating Council reports that Arbitron consistently undercounts minority populations across the country. In New York City, for example, Arbitron undercounted Hispanic and African American populations by several percentage points, it said. The rating council also says Arbitron's sample sizes were "unacceptably low" to accurately measure minority audiences' listening habits, according to the committee. The Media Rating Council conducts extensive audits …

CBS is getting in the real estate business. CBS Television is backing a new residential real estate site dubbed CBS Real Estate Market, in a joint venture with LMG digitalMedia. The effort is being led by Simon Mills, CEO of LMG. CBS has been looking for ways to monetize its New York online audience of 3 million unique visitors. Currently the real estate site boasts more than 25,000 apartment listings for sale or rent. The goal is to roll the site out to the 13 markets that CBS Television serves across the nation. CBS Real Estate Market plans …