While Condé Nast staffers were facing cuts -- as reported in another item today -- Condé Nast Entertainment president Dawn Ostroff, "a veteran of conventional TV," was talking up the digital evolution in TV and pitching the company as a fount of potential ideas for movie and TV content at MIPCOM, "the international television market and trade show," writes Erik Maza. However, "it was an odd pitch for this particular crowd.... those stories that had begun in the publisher’s magazines — she noted 'Brokeback Mountain' and 'Eat, Pray, Love' — found their way into the hands of Hollywood producers …

 "NBC is having a pretty nice fall," writes Michael O'Connell, noting such accomplishments as its winning "the adults 18-49 demographic the first two weeks of the official season" and  "rak[ing] in the strongest DVR growth of any new series (Revolution)." Finally, "it's pulled a feat not seen since the glory days of Friends. Nearly nine years to the day since the network last won three nights in a row, NBC saw consecutive demo dominance on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday nights."

Condé Nast began a series of cutbacks Tuesday "with a least one corporate vice president and eight editorial staffers  on Lucy Danziger’s Self magazine getting the ax," along with three business staffers on Self, reports Keith Kelly. Next up: "staffers from Glamour and GQ on the chopping block." At Time Inc., consulting firm McKinsey & Company is back, now working with CEO Laura Lang. Staffers are nervous, since "McKinsey has a reputation for giving management justification to make cost cuts; the firm was at the publishing giant in 2007, and it left the layoffs of some 800 people …

After finishing its global creative agency review, Johnson & Johnson will begin a "global media review in markets not already in review, including North America," writes Jack Neff, citing company execs.

At NBC News, Alex Wallace has become executive producer of "Rock Center," and DC bureau chief Antoine Sanfuentes has become a senior VP of NBC News -- while Ken Strickland takes on Sanfuentes' job and  David Verdi is promoted to senior VP of newsgathering. At Time Inc., Fortune Group Publisher Jed Hartman was promoted to group publisher of news and business, a new position, where he will oversee Time and Money as well. "The move does away with the dedicated publisher position at Time, which had been vacant since Worldwide Publisher Kim Kelleher defected to blog publisher …

It's a dirty job, but somebody's gotta do it: Bill Gates urged the global media to become a force for good by “showing how bad things can get and how good things can be" and work as "the conscience of the world." Gates was speaking at the Abu Dhabi Media Summit.

Bravo's reality show, "Start-Ups: Silicon Valley," premiering Nov. 5, just released preview footage, and "has already stirred controversy in the tech community," writes Chuck Barney. "Some are worried that it will make a mockery of the Silicon Valley lifestyle," since "said footage is spiced with plenty of bikinis, booze and bawling. What it doesn't contain is very many scenes of people actually devoting time to their start-up concepts." Gee, what a surprise for a Bravo show! Not. "Think: 'Jersey Shore' with mouse pads," adds Barney.

As part of digital ad analyst Gordon Burrell's "positively bullish" newspaper forecast for 2013, he predicts "print ad revenues to stabilize or grow slightly at most papers, a trend he expects to continue through 2017," writes Rick Edmonds. Still, "the results will be uneven, with small and mid-sized papers having the best growth prospects... and metros still declining in the range of 4 to 6 percent." Oh, and digital ad growth will be 30% next year, Burrell predicts -- but "only to the extent that [newspapers] target two growing categories of digital advertising: video (growing 30 percent next year) and …

CNN launches CNN Films, a move "to make itself more relevant" by first broadcasting premieres of documentaries in prime time surrounded by "special editions of CNN programs... discuss[ing] topics of the films," writes Brooks Barnes. The company could also work with "a distributor for theatrical releases," according to Mark Whitaker, executive vice president and managing editor of CNN Worldwide.

CBS Radio bought New Rock 101.9 from Merlin Media for $75 million, turning the alternative rock station (only recently revamped from talk radio) into  a simulcast of Sports Radio 66 WFAN later this year. "The purchase, which is subject to regulatory approval, will allow WFAN more reach, as it moves to include an FM dial," writes Adrianne Pasquarelli.