Comcast has not fulfilled the conditions of its merger with NBC because it neglected to increase local and Spanish-language news programming as required by the FCC, according to a study done by media watchdog group Free Press. Comcast reportedly counted commercials as part of its local news tally.

Google told newspaper publishers it would no longer be archiving their old issues, effectively ending the search giant's five-year-old News Archive Project. So far, Google has scanned 60 million pages, covering 250 years of the world's newspapers -- digital files it says it will continue to support online. Why end the project now? "Here's two wild guesses: the process may have turned out to be harder than Google anticipated," writes Carly Carioli in the Boston Phoenix. "Or it may have turned out that the resulting pages drew far fewer eyeballs than anyone expected."

Good article in Bloomberg Businessweek analyzing the power of the Oprah brand, "radically different but no less powerful than Coca-Cola or the Marlboro Man," writes Susan Berfield. Still, as she moves to cable, her message is shifting a bit, and her power may already be abating, since she's a baby boomer whose "historical moment is passing,"according to the author of a book about the queen of media.

It wasn't just the name of the new NBC show -- "The Playboy Club," launching in the fall -- that raised a red flag for The Parents Television Council. The watchdog group is protesting the fact that its s actors were required to sign a contract stipulating that "nudity or simulated sex may be required of cast members," according to The Hill. Such a nudity clause is "virtually unheard of for broadcast television," said PTC President Tim Winter in a statement.

But the "Two and a Half Men' creator had to say that, didn't he? Actually, the quote is all hearsay upfront talk from CBS Entertainment President Nina Tassler. Lorre's still got time to think about the best way of -- um, killing off? -- the Charlie Harper character on the show, and introducing Ashton Kutcher.As have we. Something to do with Charlie's stalker girlfriend Rose? He witnesses a murder and has to hide in a convent -- or don drag? (Oh, drat, that's been done.)

The Atlantic Wire, the esteemed pub's Web site, yesterday opened up its editing and writing process to the public in what will be an ongoing experiment. Very cool. Readers can pitch stories, give feedback on existing ones, and listen in as staffers go back and forth during the editing process.

Ebersol, who has been head of NBC Sports since 1989, is reported to have left because of disagreements about the terms of his contract. However, as recently as Monday he was still around for NBC's upfront presentation.

Ok, you can pretty much write your own headline here, but please keep it tasteful. Yes, every Playboy issue from its 57 years (and counting) of publication is now available in a Web-based subscription service (and iPad app) for $8 a month or $60 a year. Check out this Chicago Tribune article for some snarky comments on how feasible a money-making scheme this really is.

Univision plans to "tighten its grip on the growing Latino market" with three new cable channels, the L.A. Times reports. One of the channels will focus on sports, another news, and the third,telenovelas, "the spicy Spanish-language soap operas... that fuel Univision Network's prime-time [broadcast] ratings."

Tablet users spend more time reading publications than readers of newspapers on the Web, according to TigerSpike, whose clients include The Economist. "Average app engagement time is 30 to 34 minutes,"according to the agency's managing director, Nic Newman. "Page views is five times the average for the publications consumed on the web," Newman says.