Yes, says sources quoted in the New York Post; Guggenheim Partners and Jimmy Finkelstein's Pluribus Capital Management are looking to sell The Hollywood Reporter, Billboard, Adweek, Brandweek, Mediaweek and BackStage. The six pubs were acquired from Nielsen Co. in December 2009. No, says a spokesman for Guggenheim Partners, as well as Jimmy Finkelstein himself.

How will The Daily do when the first of its trial subscriptions ends and readers must pay $1 a week for the iPad app? Of course Daily publisher Greg Clayman is optimistic about the question of paying subscribers in his Q&A with Ad Age's Michael Learmouth. Clayman says that  Daily downloads number in the "hundreds of thousands."He also makes the somewhat puzzling claim that "Our app changes every day. The thing about it that is so interesting to me is that every single day it looks different, has different content and different functionality. It's like we are producing …

A Providence ABC affiliate that's up for sale -- WLNE -- plans to replace its 7 p.m. newscasts with infomercials when reps can sell the spots, according to a source cited by TVSpy's Andrew Gauthier. On Tuesday the station ran an infomercial for the Genie Bra, "a revolutionary new bra that eliminates rolls, wires, and adjusting straps," writes Gauthier. Click to see the story and the video -- and keep your snarky comments to yourself, unless they're in good taste.

Nieman Journalism Lab's Ken Doctor analyzes in depth the "newsonomics" of the New York Times' just-announced pay model for digital content, which he assumes will be tweaked over time. Doctor's biggest initial concern was the lack of an annual digital subscription, which "makes it far less friendly to expense accounts for business readers." In an update, he wrote that "The Times just let me know that there will be an annual offer, although the size of the discount is still TBA." Doctor also noted that the timing of the announcement "is remarkably good - playing …

It's a strange day for journalism. While The New York Times tried to get some monetary recognition, the Washington Post had to apologize to another newspaper for plagiarism.

In light of the NCAA's new television contract, which changed some early games in the March Madness tourney from broadcast to cable airing, Rep. Joe Courtney (D) penned a letter to CBS president Les Moonves and NCAA president Mark Emmert, asking that a particular game be moved back to a CBS affiliate. "CBS and TNT executives last week said they were not concerned about the lack of regional coverage, considering home fans who do not get cable could still watch the game for free online, according to CBSsports.com," writes Jordan Fabian on The Hill.

Our neighbors to the north get to be the guinea pigs for the New York Times' long-awaited pay wall for digital content, which will be rolled out in final form globally March 28. Did we say wall? Actually, it's more like a pay fence (a point first made by Nieman Journalism Lab's Ken Doctor), since there's a fair amount of free content -- 20 article views a month -- available. Once those 20 views are reached, that's when you gotta start paying up. And, more good news, even if you've reached that limit, if you get to a story through …

Yesterday, just 24 hours after Time Warner Cable launched an app that lets subscribers stream video content to tablet devices, legal reps from various cable networks sent out letters asking the company to halt the service. While not threatening immediate legal action, the missives noted that "such distribution pathways are not authorized by existing affiliate agreements," according to Adweek's Anthony Crupi, who called this move "the latest salvo in the long and bloody war between rights holders and operators."

Gannet has finally replaced Chris Saridakis as its chief digital officer after almost a year. ShortTail Media co-cofounder David Payne is taking on the job, as part of the process of Gannet's "rebranding itself as a more digital-centric company and not just a traditional newspaper publisher and broadcaster," according to Paid Content's David Kaplan.

According to All Things Digital's Peter Kafka, Netflix's potential deal to distribute a new TV show -- "House of Cards," a political drama based on a British miniseries -- could be smart strategy for the company, even if it does wind up costing $100 million or more. Why? Distributing original content could be used as a bargaining chip when negotiating with studios and pay channels for their content, he argues.