Tribune Broadcasting is restructuring the creative service functions at its television stations by appointing two regional vice presidents for innovation and imagination. John Zeigler, formerly director/creative services of WPIX- New York, will lead the Eastern region; Carrie King, previously director/creative services of WGN America, will lead the Central region. Lee Abrams, Tribune's chief innovation officer, said: "We have to be radically and noticeably different -- we have to imagine TV and TV news in a totally new way, one that breaks through and reinvents the decades old, tired TV playbook."

Larry King's leaving is not the only problem at CNN. The cable news network is plagued by high-profile departures, low ratings and -- TheWrap claims -- widespread resentment among producers and anchors. The succession war set off by King leaving is only likely to heighten the tension even further. Sources say some anchors are jealous that Anderson Cooper sucked up resources by going to Haiti and the Gulf of Mexico, leaving them unable to build their profiles at the network. Meantime, Cooper has been frustrated that despite dangerous forays into disaster zones like Haiti, his ratings remain in …

Welcome to the mainstream media. The most popular cable news channel in 2Q is Fox News, which won for the total day and for prime time. The ratings, however, revealed that all the cable news channels were down from the second quarter last year. In prime time, Fox News averaged 1.9 million viewers. It had a bigger audience than MSNBC (758,000), CNN (594,000) and HLN (487,000) combined. Fox was down 10% from the second quarter last year, while MSNBC was off 4%, CNN was off 31% and HLN was down 12%. Among cable news channels in prime time, Fox …

Hearst's Seventeen 2.1 million circ mag has relaunched its Web site with a massive social-networking push aimed at pulling girls away from online networks like Facebook, instant messaging and games. Seventeen.com has incorporated Facebook's Open Graph sharing platform, Twitter and Meebo liberally throughout the site to encourage visitors to share content and instant-message with their friends. The redesign also is making a bigger play for gossip, with a new celebrity news channel that's powered by LMK (Let Me Know), Hearst's aggregation site. It's one of the first times LMK is powering a news channel on a Hearst magazine Web …

Most publishers are aggressively experimenting with  new electronic devices that could replace their paper-based magazines, newspapers and books -- and the revenue they get from those products. Some products for digital devices have clearly been more successful than others. The challenge has been to find the right mix of content, design and community that can stand apart from the publishers' content given away on the Web.Yet some magazine apps are still shy about socializing, notes The New York Times. Take the Wired iPad application. It  includes Wired's storytelling and offers some fun and informative graphics. But it's missing …