Starting Aug. 15, you'll need to wait until a week after their broadcast premieres to see Fox shows for free online -- unless your cable, satellite or telco TV provider has made a deal with Fox permitting you to do so.  Dish Net is the first to sign up; its subscribers will need to log in with user name and password on such sites as Fox.com, Hulu.com and DishOnline.com.  No word on the terms and conditions of the deal.   And no change for Hulu Plus subscribers.

Kim McAvoy surveys 23 "diginets," those new program providers vying for carriage on broadcast stations' digital subchannels. She finds that, much like the cable world 30 years ago, there's largely an array of low-cost networks, many relying heavily on movies and reruns. Some highlights: This TV, a joint venture of MGM Entertainment and Weigel Broadcasting, is the largest diginet. It launched in 2008 and reaches 85.6% of U.S. TV homes. ABC says its Live Well Network, full of original lifestyle shows, has been in the black since its 2009 launch. CBS is expected to enter the field soon.

Time received the only "Genius" rating in the latest L2 Digital IQ Index, which measures the digital footprint of 87 magazines. Unlike other pubs, Time was said to have a strong presence across multiple social and mobile platforms. The remainder of the top ten, all rated "Gifted," were People, Self, Men's Health, Sports Illustrated, New York, GQ, Glamour, Entertainment Weekly and Cosmopolitan. In all, 37% of the pubs received the "Gifted" rank. Other rankings range from "Average" to "Challenged" to "Feeble." If you want to see who landed down there, reporter Matt Kinsman provides a …

Oxygen removed a joke about Amy Winehouse from a Sunday night repeat of its hit reality series "The Glee Project."The joke was still visible via Comcast's On Demand service, however, and the unidentified Herald blogger, while crediting Oxygen for its alert action, also says the network could have easily removed the entire "few seconds of pointless banter" that led into the joke without affecting the episode itself.  Incidentally, notes James Hibberd at "Inside TV" in following up on the Herald story, the original airing of that episode of "The Glee Project" a week earlier brought in the series's highest …

Back in April, "Mad Men" network AMC announced its first reality show, called "The Pitch," which would feature ad agencies competing against each other for new business.Three months later, no agency has agreed to participate. Rupal Parekh's comprehensive story provides lists of agencies who have said no, and those who have yet to decline, the pitch from "The Pitch."  She also notes that other reality shows set in the ad industry have failed in recent years, such as Oxygen's "Ad Fight," cancelled after one episode, and another called "Jingles," which never even made it to air. But another corporate-based show …

Has anyone out there received a print copy of Google's new trade pub Think Quarterly?  If so, you're one of just a "small number of clients and partners" receiving this "limited edition" mag, according to Lisa Gevelber, Google's head of global ad marketing.   In a Q&A with Ki Mae Heussner , Gevelber reveals some of the mag's special features: for one thing, each issue is personalized with the recipient's name (hopefully, more so than every pub I get in the mail, all of which include my name on the cover right over my address!). Ok, the Think Quarterlycover …

Households with broadband Internet but not multichannel TV service-- who make up 8% of all U.S. households -- aren't necessarily cord-cutters, according to new data from Leichtman Research Group.  Only 5% of this group said they don't subscribe to a TV service because they can watch all the online video they want on the Internet, and only 2% mentioned Netflix as a reason for not subscribing.  The main reason they don't subscribe to cable or other multichannel TV? Cost, cited by 28%, followed by 26% who said they don't watch much TV, and 18% saying they have no need for …

The government's proposed national broadband plan would remove about 210 full-power TV stations -- or 12% of all broadcast stations -- off the free airwaves in 61 markets, according to an analysis by the National Association of Broadcasters.

Here's one way at least, that Rupert Murdoch may be doing something right. He was among the first, we believe, to own a local TV station (New York's Channel Five) and a newspaper (the New York Post) in one market, as regulation banning such ownership was eased. And now several FCC studies find "statistically significant evidence" that newspaper-broadcast cross-ownership has a "positive correlation" on local news,"according to Broadcasting & Cable. Which could mean lifting the ban for cross-ownership altogether.Another finding: "owning multiple stations in a market does not negatively impact local information programming and has a positive impact on the …

Discovery Networks International, which has an office in Oslo, said it has commissioned a one-hour documentary about Friday's Norwegian bombing and shooting spree, which killed at least 76 people (the death toll varies -- that's the number according to The Hollywood Reporter ). The special will air starting next month on Discovery Channel in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Latin America and the Asia-Pacific region. No word yet on Discovery in the U.S., says The Reporter's Georg Szalai, who points out that neither CBS, NBC or ABC broke into their regular programming to report Friday's breaking …