Satellite TV provider Dish Network is being sued by Disney and Starz Entertainment in separate copyright and breach of contract suits respectively. At issue in both suits is a Dish promotion that gives subscribers complimentary access to Starz through 2012. Disney says it gave Starz the right to air its content only if Starz was on a premium tier at Dish. Starz says it has received breach of contract notices from several of its studio partners because of the Dish promotion.

Three newspapers owned by McClatchy Co. -- the Miami Herald, Kansas City Star and Raleigh News & Observer -- are cutting a total of over 50 employees from their staffs, according to MediaJobsDaily. The layoffs (the second in a series this year for the Star ) come after McClatchy announced it had lost $2 million in the first quarter of 2011.

Correspondent Scott Pelley will take on CBS news anchoring duties, replacing Katie Couric on what will be renamed "CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley." Pelley, a veteran of more than two decades at CBS, will also continue reporting for "60 Minutes."

This week NBCUniversal is launching round-the-clock local news and information channels in Dallas, Miami and California (with help from San Francisco, San Diego and L.A. affiliates) to fulfill part of the FCC's local programming requirement, which was imposed because of the Comcast merger. NBCU will also produce 1,000 additional hours of local programming for its Telemundo outlets, set to be announced this summer.

Former Boston Globe publisher William Osgood Taylor II, who negotiated the sale of the paper to the New York Times Co., died Sunday evening at the age of 78.Fourth in his family to run the paper, Taylor was publisher from 1978 to 1997, during which time the Globe won nine Pulitzer Prizes.

The New York Times is launching Times in Cinema, a 10- to 12-minute pre-show that will run in independent theaters. The content will be Times videos drawn mostly from entertainment, lifestyle and travel stories, against which the company will sell ads.

No big surprises in the Audit Bureau of Circulations' figures for newspapers in the six months ending March 31, which were just released: The Wall Street Journal retains its position at the top of the circulation race for daily newspapers, while The New York Times again reigns supreme for Sunday newspapers. (We like the way Forbes/Mixed Media brought some liveliness to this standard statistics story: with a picture of Dow Jones & Co. co-founder Charles Dow -- who, the caption claims, "is surely kvelling [Yiddish word meaning "bragging"] in the afterlife today." )

"One day I hope to learn why Google TV was rushed out," cnet.com's Greg Sandoval writes in a post analyzing what made Google TV less than successful -- from poor content strategy to the fact that "users were required to shell out money for hardware, such as the Revue or a TV from Sony, [while] at the same time, competitors such as Netflix offered a much simpler and less-expensive option."But perhaps Google TV is "just ramping up," considering that "Google's first versions of its now successful Android operating system for mobile phones got off to a bumpy start," Sandoval concludes.

By now you probably know that the news of Osama bin Laden's death was reported initially on social media, a historic first for a "Kennedy moment for a new generation," as Al Jazeera English correspondent Alan Fisher put it. But how did more traditional media handle the story? New York Times Media Decoder Brian Stelter (who provided the Al Jazeera quote above) writes a fairly thorough round-up of how newspapers and TV networks jumped on the news after President Obama's press conference at 8:35 p.m. ET last night. Entertainment Weeklydetails exactly what programs NBC and …

Starting today, print subscribers to Time Inc.'s Sports Illustrated, Time and Fortune will get free access to iPad versions of those publications. This move marks "a break in the impasse between publishers and Apple" over iPad content, according to the Wall Street Journal's Russell Adams.