Midway through the Senate's Commerce Committe hearing on the future of television, Stacy Higginbotham "realized that the Senate has it all wrong. The future of TV isn’t to be found in deregulation — it’s on the Internet. We just have to let it happen. And to do that, Congress needs to look at how broadband providers control access to content, through caps, specialized offerings and deals." With television and broadband "now intertwined,.. from a regulatory perspective the fight will now be about who holds the power in terms of relationships with consumers and in terms of their relationships with content …

The Observer Media Group, owner of newspaper New York Observer, is launching LivingThere.com, a real estate site that "will provide consumers with powerful research tools necessary to navigate Manhattan’s real estate market," according to the company. The search and information site will help connect buyers with brokers and give users "real-time personalized market data."

CBS Television Distribution is suing ComStar Television for more than $1.5 million in license fees allegedly owed for airing episodes of old TV shows like "Happy Days" and "My Three Sons," writes Eriq Gardner. ComStar alleges that its purchase of FamilyNet Television in 2009 gave it access to a library of sitcoms without having to pay off all the license fees because it "did not acquire the corresponding liabilities," according to the complaint.

So where is Anna Wintour? That's the first question we had when reading that Vogue just held its first open-to-the-public festival where top designers gave "their views on the industry to the general public." Then we read that the festival was conceived and run by British Vogue Editor Alexandra Shulman. OK, so no Anna to be found -- just "industry luminaries like Dolce & Gabbana, Burberry, Tom Ford and Stella McCartney." Still, sounds pretty amazing -- as was this description: "[T]wo students wait patiently to approach Shulman about a possible internship at Vogue, …

After Discovery Communications created Investigation Discovery (ID) in 2008 as the third reboot of its culture-themed cable channel, the network earned its billing as fastest-growing, writes Sarah Turcotte. It jumped from number 55 to 3 in cable ratings for a key demo, women aged 25 to 34, and added more than 30 million new subscriptions. This accomplishment was achieved by "making ID an all-day destination" filled with inexpensive true crime and mystery-oriented content, according to Turcotte. "ID shows capitalize on their viewers' affinities for reality TV and crime dramas, and most contain a mix of low-cost reenactments; unpaid interviews with …

NimbleTV, which allows viewers to stream all the programs in their pay TV packages onto the Web, today began a test phase in New York City with 26 channels. Backed by Greycroft Partners, Tribeca Venture Partners and the Tribune Company, (which owns 23 TV stations), "the service is positioned... as a way to enhance existing cable or satellite packages and to help distributors sell more such packages," writes Brian Stelter. Still, chief executive Anand Subramanian "declined to name any providers that are already on board, and he asserted that NimbleTV did not need their blessing." Users will still pay for …

There'll be less Martha Stewart on TV come the fall, when she'll appear weekly on “Martha Stewart’s Cooking School" on PBS. Her daily talk show on the Hallmark Channel will leave the airwaves this summer. "Ms. Stewart and executives at her company believe that public broadcasting will be a better fit for her brand than daytime cable, where 'The Martha Stewart Show' struggled to attract an audience for the last two years," writes Brian Stelter

Covering breaking news -- CNN's signature -- is sure to bring in audiences when there's a big news story, but when that's not the case, the network "slumps back down to third place in the ratings," writes Alex Sherman. CNN's rivals started with a similar strategy, but have found more success in branching out -- like MSNBC, "which now relies heavily on political analysis and personalities such as Rachel Maddow." Dependence on breaking news can also hurt ad sales. Since they sell up to 70% of their ad inventory in advance, "the problem for cable networks is that they can’t …

Hearst's new Hello Style YouTube channel, a video version of five of its women's titles including Cosmopolitan, Marie Claire and Harper’s Bazaar, features "content that goes down so easy... it makes the paper editions of these magazines seem obsolete," writes Nicole Martinelli. One example:  Cosmo's quick tutorial on manicures is more immediately helpful than the print version would be, Martinelli contends. "Unlike other publishing-to-TV ventures we've looked at, including Reuters TV  and the New York Times' show, Hello Style seems to cannibalize more than complement the original," writes Martinelli. As lifetime mainliners of women's magazines -- we started early with …

The rich get richer deptartment: "The economy was shaky, the home-entertainment industry was in turmoil and Occupy Wall Street was at full boil, but the top media and technology executives still rewarded themselves with fat salaries, bonuses and stock options in 2011, TheWrap's fourth annual executive compensation survey shows," writes Brent Lang. Read it and weep.