San Francisco-based video delivery company Envivio filed with the SEC today for an IPO. The firm, which "sells technology used by telecom firms, cable operators, and content owners to deliver video to mobile phones, set top boxes and PCs," hopes to raise as much as $69 million, according to Paid Content.

ABC execs have been planning the cancellation of the long-running"All My Children" and "One Life to Live" for about a year, according to the network's daytime president Brian Frons. That's when "pretty discouraging" ratings projections came in and ABC started developing 15 replacement shows, four of which were chosen to pilot. The two lifestyle shows picked up -- "The Chew" and "The Revolution"-- were chosen because "I wanted to do shows that were unusual for daytime," Frons told Deadline Hollywood. "What's happening now is people are looking for information to make their lives better, they're obsessed about what they eat …

According to Business Insider's Dan Frommer, the redesign of Bloomberg Businessweek was great, "with provocative covers, interesting charts, and great photo selection."Frommer does a Q&A with the man responsible, creative director Richard Turley. Among the tidbits: "You kind of have to celebrate the fact that you're on paper and that there's a certain narrative drive to the structure of a magazine, which people like and respond to," says Turley.

Wired was among the first print mags to go tablet a year ago, with over 100,000 downloads; it has since settled into monthly totals of 20,000 to 30,000, publisher Howard Mittman tells All Things Digital's Peter Kafka. Mittman says publishers are even more bullish on the Wired app than they were a year ago, and while he won't quantify this trend, he does note that the latest "issue will generate more advertising dollars than Wired's first issue a year ago."And, oh, yeah,Wired has a special one-time promo, sponsored by Adobe: the May tablet issue will be free.

Here's a great story about the continuing need for newspapers. After the earthquake/tsunami hit Japan and knocked out all power in the city of Ishinomaki, reporters on the city's daily newspaper, Ishinomaki Hibi Shimbun "used flashlights and marker pens to write their stories on poster-size paper and posted the 'newspapers' at the entrances of relief centers around the city," for six days. That's according to the newsletter for Washington D.C.'s Newseum, which "has acquired seven of the originals for its permanent collection of historic newspapers."

In two meetings this week, journalism experts -- including top newspaper editors -- expressed new optimism about the future of traditional news media.Among the signs for hope: newsroom employment figures are stabilizing after years of layoffs; plus, the move back to readers paying for news again, evident on tablet devices and the New York Times online pay meter, "may just nudge the bottom line for news operations back toward more-positive figures," writes Gene Policinski on FirstAmendmentCenter.org.

Well, why? "The basic concept is that we think writers should be paid for their work," Andy Rosenthal, the paper's editorial page editor, tells Mixed Media's Jeff Bercovici. The Times is also paying for exclusivity -- unlike HuffPo, which allows its bloggers to own and reprint their work. The Times question is especially relevant these days because "In the great debate over whether the Huffington Post should/must/will pay its bloggers, there's one refrain you keep hearing from the site's defenders: Huffpo's blog section is like a big op-ed page," writes Bercovici. And some bloggers say New York …

Reports are that the heirs of recently deceased Newsweek co-owner Sidney Harman are "committed" and "enthusiastic" about continuing the publication, according to Adweek, though it's "too early to say what ongoing financial support would be provided for the publication." First step: the estate will name a director to replace Harman. wAfter news of his death settled, the question arose how deeply his heirs will be committed. 72b3de In other news about Newsweek former editor Jon Meachamjust penned a first story for the competition -- Time following the ship-jumping of other editors and writers from the ailing Newsweek.

Discovery targets one of its unserved demos -- college-educated men 35-54 with an annual income of $150,000 or above -- with the debut of Velocity, a channel that will feature more than 400 hours of automotive, sports and leisure, adventure and travel programming.All HD, Velocity will replace the current HD Theater network, whose VP of production and development, Bob Scanlon, will become senior vice president of Velocity.

Hollywood Reporter could be starting up a Bollywood edition -- and the New York offices of its owner, Prometheus Global Media, "have dingy, pockmarked walls and a pile of old, broken computers lying in a hallway" -- unlike the glossatorium that was surely Prometheus CEO Richard Beckman's when he was a Conde Nast advertising big-wig. Those tidbits come from Andrew Goldman's long profile of Beckman in Bloomberg Businessweek, which -- while it fails to provide the latest news about Prometheus books Mediaweek and Brandweek being consolidated into Adweek -- does look in-depth at how Hollywood Reporter is doing. …