Ok, that's a fictional network that would undoubtedly pull in low ratings -- just the sort that could be migrating to the Web, and potentially to YouTube in the near future, according to CEO Salar Kamangar."The cable channels could provide more professionally produced content for YouTube as it weighs selling subscriptions for consumers to access some of its video offerings," writes Alexei Oreskovic and Yinka Adegoke.

OK, more news on newspapers adapting to the digital age. Today the Wall Street Journal launched its political video channel, "DC Bureau," which will air for half an hour every Friday. Jeff John Roberts compares the WSJ's video "shotgun approach" approach with that of the New York Times, which he says "is going slower and paying more attention to production quality." And the New York Daily News will be launching a daily national website, Daily News America, by the end of this month, Joe Pompeo reports in a post where he also notes some …

Finally, some happy newspaper news! Spanish-language paper Hoy Los Angeles wll be expanding its publication schedule from three days to four. Its new Thursday edition "will focus on profiles of prominent LA Latinos as well as entertainment, sports, food, home, health and business news," writes  Mediabistro's Matthew Fleischer. Also, Washington Post editors say the paper will put renewed focus on enterprise stories and hire an Enterprise Editor  "to lift the ambition, quality and impact of our journalism," reports Politico's Dylan Byers. Meanwhile, New Orleans' Times Picayune editor Jim Amoss "invokes the newspaper’s Web-first …

Disney is offering three of its channels -- Watch Disney Channel, Watch Disney XD, and Watch Disney Junior -- on new apps for the iPad and iPhone to verified Comcast subscribers. In a presumed first for cable programmers, the Disney app will allow non-cable subscribers access to some content as well.

Conde Nast's GQ is featuring augmented reality for ads and some edit in its September issue, enabling readers to use a new app, GQ Live, for "print-to-mobile content extensions, including videos, 3-D modeling, interactive experiences and click-throughs to social media and e-commerce sites," writes David Lipke. The app uses the Aurasma platform, currently in play for a story in Popular Science's June issue.

What's next in the future of media? How about "the re-invention of paper.  That’s right, paper," writes Tom Glocer. He sees "lightweight digital plastic sheets becoming the new print medium," with "your daily newspaper downloaded overnight to your 'digital paper.'” After all, "what we call paper today has evolved over centuries from stretched animal skins to papyrus to wood paper pulp." Interesting post.

In what is probably a first, TV Guide is hosting USA Network's second-screen experience, Character Chatter, on its website. Those who visit TV Guide's summer preview section can participate in real-time conversations about such shows as "Burn Notice." TV Guide is eager for more deals like this. “We’d be open to integrating everybody’s social streams,”  says TVGuide.com GM Christy Tanner.  

In the first Conde Nast magazine deal resulting from the arrangment the company made with Freemantle Media last summer, Self magazine will release a line of Self-branded fitness products like weights and yoga mats, Emma Bazilian reports. Conde Nast brought Freemantle, "the licensing and marketing arm of the company behind shows like 'American Idol,'" onboard to "to do licensing for Self, Golf Digest, and Epicurious, involving everything from product extensions to digital and TV initiatives, as the publisher looks to gin up new revenue streams," writes Bazilian.

ConnectTV is partnering with Pearl Media, a consortium of broadcasting companies, to debut a social network mobile and online app that will provide supplementary information during TV --  "like statistics for a sporting event" -- as well as enable users to connect with other TV viewers, writes Lucas Shaw. It launched in 85 affiliates in 40 major markets Tuesday -- a number soon expected to grow to 215 stations.

It's been a bad time for newspapers lately. The layoffs at New Orleans's Time-Picayune -- including the firing of its restaurant critic, perhaps an odd move for a city whose identity is so bound up with food -- were expected after the news of its diminished publishing schedule. As reported in the New York Times, however,  "while about half the newsroom was let go on Tuesday — around 84 people — a coming series of hires would mean that by fall the newsroom would be smaller by only about 32 people." That paper is owned by Advance …