Time Inc. President John Q. Griffin is leaving after six months in the job by "mutual agreement," between him and company officials, according to a statement. The search is on for a replacement. The move comes several months after the ouster of CEO Jack Griffin (to whom the first Griffin was not related).

Interesting. In the wake of some executive and other tumult (CEO Christina Norman was fired last week) surrounding her OWN network, Oprah Winfrey is getting advice from "Saturday Night Live" producer and creator Lorne Michaels on start-up ventures. Michaels told Winfrey she's going to "have to pay [her] dues and will be in the midst of a learning curve" -- and not to judge OWN "until after three years," Winfrey told the Hollywood Reporter. Winfrey also said she regretted starting OWN before she ended her own syndicated show, and that she hasn't been devoting enough time to OWN overall.

Stuart Elliott writes that Interpublic's R/GA has added services like data visualization and event marketing as part of its efforts to stop marketers, other agencies -- and reporters like Elliott -- from labeling agencies as "traditional" or "digital."R/GA, a digital agency...er, I mean ad agency...had already offered such services as brand development and relationship marketing - and even the creation and production of television commercials -- in addition to mobile advertising, social media advertising, and, yes, "digital ad work for clients like Nike and Wal-Mart."Bob Greenberg, RGA chairman, chief executive and global …

"Media Guy" columnist Simon Dumenco relates the sad story of "Media Cat," an elderly feline who used to spend time napping on piles of magazines at a neighborhood newsstand.  Alas, the newsstand remodeled, so its low-lying stacks of glossies are gone - along with the cat. Media Cat may well be alive and hanging out in back of the store these days, but perhaps a sadder story is the vanishing retail visibility for print magazines.   Retail outlets stocking magazines have decreased 11.3% in three years, according to Ad Age's Nat Ives, and "magazine covers essentially served as eye-level (and waist-level …

While running down the current menu of TV shows about eating and cooking, Breeanna Hare examines the reasons for food shows' continuing - and expanding - popularity. "If they're not entertaining us with standard reality-TV shenanigans, they're exploring a topic we can all dig into," she writes. Yet, even with networks ranging from VH1 to ABC cooking up new concepts like "Famous Food" and "The Chew," "there are only so many TV viewing hours that one should have within a day, and your typical fan can't possibly eat up all of this food programming."

There's a new pay-radio station and it isn't on Sirius, XM or even Pandora. It's an Internet version of San Francisco public radio station KQED. For a $45 donation, listeners get an alternate feed of the station -- without any pledge drive interruptions for a full year. The special feed can be streamed on up to four browsers, including smartphones and tablets. Post Advertising calls this the "first experiment of its kind by any public radio station," but asks, "Does paid radio qualify as public radio?"

Despite Netflix CEO Reed Hastings telling All Things D's Peter Kafka  that the company is open to extending the runs of network shows in the fashion of DirectTV and NBC's "Friday Night Lights," TV by the Numbers' Robert Seidman cautions fans of such on-the-fence shows as NBC's "Chuck" to stop rubbing their hands together.  And hold off on that letter-writing campaign, he says. For one thing, "Chuck" hasn't even been canceled yet. For another, "Chuck" production company Warner Bros. "does not play nicely with Netflix as far as recent shows. Those shows can't be ‘doing well on Netflix' since they …

In a "sign of the times for the telepic biz," CBS has cancelled its telecasts of the venerable  "Hallmark Hall of Fame" after a 16-year run, reports Brian Lowry in an exclusive.  The venerable TV-movie franchise began in 1951, spending 30 years on NBC and then brief runs on ABC and PBS before landing on CBS.  Over the past 60 years, 243 films have run under the "Hall of Fame" banner.Lowry says that Hallmark, the greeting cards giant, passed on a CBS plan to carry its films on an ad hoc basis rather than the current three-times-a-year deal. …

Bounce TV, the new broadcast network targeting African-Americans and backed by such names as Martin Luther King III and former Ambassador Andrew Young, has secured its first carriage deal. Raycom said it would carry Bounce TV over digital multicast channels in 26 markets when the 24/7 network launches this fall. The deal, which puts Bounce TV on stations covering 10% of all U.S. TV households and around 19% of African American TV households, was ballyhooed by the National Association of Broadcasters, which is fighting an Obama administration plan to turn over broadcast spectrum to wireless broadband.Bounce TV said it expects …

Allison Buckley profiles Howard Robertson, whose 10-year-old Spotset Radio Network is described as "the only unaffiliated, unwired radio network in the country."  Spotset works with advertisers to buy radio time from a database that includes over 13,000 stations. The company's latest project is a syndicated radio program to mark the 40th anniversary of "Soul Train," one of syndicated television's greatest successes.