News Corp.'s TV division is expected to rejigger duties among top executives according to sources. While details are still being finalized, Peter Rice is expected to assume greater control over the entertainment and cable, while David Hill will up his presence on the sports side. It could also mean that Fox National Cable Networks President Rich Battista will be reassigned duties or exit the company. The cable networks, including FX chief John Landgraf, would report directly into Peter Rice.

Wendi Murdoch encouraged Rupert's son-in-law to fire a rocket at Fox News boss Roger Ailes -- the first shot in an escalating war between Murdoch's adult heirs and the company brass for the future of one of media's hottest enterprises. The 78-year-old Murdoch continues to control as chairman and chief executive. The first shot was fired today on The New York Times' Web site by British public-relations executive Matthew Freud, married to Murdoch's daughter, Elizabeth. Freud's frontal attack on Ailes is an apparent attempt to force News Corp.'s founder to choose between blood and money, between his progeny and his …

Dick Ebersol, Olympics executive producer, says NBC will lose money this year on the Winter Olympics for the first time, due to an increase in license rights, though he notes ad sales have picked up. NBC paid $820 million for the rights to televise the Winter Games, according to the AP. That compares to the $613 million paid for the rights to televise the Olympics in Turin, Italy, in 2006. The head of NBC's parent company, GE's Jeffrey Immelt, told investors recently NBC would lose "a couple hundred million bucks" on the games. Ebersol also said that the …

Disney says he upcoming fourth season of the hit show "Hannah Montana" will be its last. Miley Cyrus -- who plays Miley Stewart, a down-to-earth high schooler who leads a secret double life as pop star Hannah Montana -- is ready to move on. The show is hugely successful, averaging nearly 5 million viewers a week. Production on the fourth season is set to begin Jan. 18 and end sometime this summer -- after Cyrus takes a short hiatus in April to promote her upcoming big-screen movie, "The Last Song." The fourth season premieres in late spring, but new …

The New York Times is turning over day-to-day control of a blog covering parts of Brooklyn to the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism. The move could become a model for securing hyper-local coverage at minimal cost. While the NYT has assigned reporters and editors to its two community blogs, dubbed "The Local," most of their content comes from outside contributors, including readers who submit articles, tips, comments, video and other material. However, the other "Local" blog for Maplewood, Millburn and South Orange, N.J., will continue to be operated by newspaper personnel.

Fox News commentator Tucker Carlson launches his new Web site, "The Daily Caller," on Monday. His partner is Neil Patel, a former Dick Cheney aide, and his $3 million in funding comes from Wyoming financier Foster Friess, a big-time GOP donor. Despite his conservative background, Carlton says his goal is "to explain what your government is doing. We're not going to suck up to people in power, the way so many have." Carlson says "The Daily Caller" won't be a right-wing site: "I don't feel guilty about or ashamed in any way of saying we'll cover the people in …

Ex-NBC entertainment co-chairman Ben Silverman has his first distributor, Yahoo, for his new studio, which specializes in creating shows in concert with advertisers. The studio, Electus, was founded last year by Silverman in partnership with Barry Diller's IAC/InterActiveCorp. At the new company, Mr. Silverman is forging exceptionally close connections between content creators and corporate sponsors. In an interview Thursday, he was not specific about the types of programs he would create for Yahoo, but said he saw "opportunities for episodic storytelling" that included "more direct relationships" with advertisers. The move by Electus and Yahoo is a response to …

The FCC says the stay on its current partial lifting of the ban on newspaper-broadcast cross-ownership should remain in place and court challenges to that order held, arguing it is bound to be superseded by a new decision, from new commissioners, based on a changed media marketplace. Broadcasters say the FCC is stalling and that the court needs to move. Broadcasters weighing in include Fox, CBS, Belo, Gannett, Media General, and NAB. The FCC's media ownership rules have been in limbo for more than a half-decade and the 2008 rules change under FCC Chairman Kevin Martin has never gone …

The Star Tribune of Minneapolis Michael Klingensmith as its new publisher. Klingensmith spent three decades at Time Inc., where he led Sports Illustrated and co-founded Entertainment Weekly. Klingensmith becomes publisher at a difficult time for newspaper companies, which face a prolonged recession and the shifting habits of readers and advertisers. Even so, newspapers' combined print and digital audiences still often dwarf other local media. Klingensmith said there is "nothing more important in the business right now than reformulating the business model for some of these media properties that are really critically important to communities."

The Mark Burnett reality competition show "Our Little Genius," originally slated for Jan. 13, following a 75-minute edition of "American Idol," is on hold indefinitely, while some episodes are reshot. "Our Little Genius" features extremely bright kids who answer increasingly difficult questions to win as much money as they can with one catch: The parents can choose to walk away at any time. An episode of "The Simpsons" will replace the scheduled show; "Idol" will expand to 90 minutes.