Former Hachette Filipacchi CEO Jack Kliger is reportedly in market to buy Whole Living magazine from Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, with "financial backing" from OpenGate Capital Partners, writes Keith Kelly.  No comments from any of the potential deal principals so far.

The fiscal cliff isn't all bad -- at least not for some major newspapers, who are experiencing a mini-boomlet selling "expensive full-page color spots" to special interest groups pushing their plans circumvent the crisis, according to the Wall Street Journal.

TV's future will definitely include more advanced on-demand formats, according to principals at both Netflix and Aereo TV speaking at recent meetings. "Aereo founder [Chet Kanojia] says that 'TV should be like Twitter' — available everywhere and backed in every application," writes  Jeff John Roberts. "The legal controversy surrounding TV-on-the-go service Aereo is interesting — but not nearly as much as the blend of technology that gave rise to the company in the first place," Roberts adds. With the cost structure of cloud computing "a fraction of what it was,”  consumers have changed their "expectations about media and TV subscriptions," …

Getting closer to fulfilling its goal of airing scripted series, Bravo has ordered pilots of two such shows: "The Joneses" and "Rita." Casting decisions have yet to be announced.

Oprah Winfrey's OWN network, partly owned by Discovery, "will break even in the second half of 2013" even if it misses its distribution goal of 85 million homes, according to David Zaslav, Discovery's CEO,  writes David Lieberman. "The ratings growth has been fantastic,”  Zaslav said.  He also noted that Discovery would wait to sell streaming rights to its content:  “Until it’s measured and until we get fair value from the distributors, we’re going to stay pat." 

The FCC's "review of media ownership rules, already delayed two years, is delayed again," writes Katy Bachman "There will be no vote on the rules until early next year, at the earliest."

Roughly 10% of U.K. pay TV subscribers surveyed by a media strategy agency say the plan to change their service next year -- twice as many who said they would change this year (fewer of whom actually did so), writes Robert Andrews. But instead of widespread cord cutting, "most of those who plan to change say they will simply remove paid channels from their existing package," writes Andrews. Other stats of interest here include the number of households (33%) that "already have a connected TV device other than that from a pay TV provider."

Hours after its CFO, Jean-Michel Etienne, had discussed "his company’s many acquisitions" at a conference, Publicis Groupe announced yet another purchase: "AR New York, a well-regarded shop that specializes in working for marketers in fashion, beauty and luxury goods," writes Stuart Elliott. Etienne had not provided even a "hint" of the deal, notes Elliott: "Talk about a poker face."   No financial terms were disclosed.

Disney and Netflix just signed a deal giving the streaming service exclusive rights to the film company's live-action and animated movies, beginning with films released in 2016. Financial terms were not disclosed, but "the deal also rewards Netflix with a mutli-year catalog deal that includes such Disney classics as 'Dumbo' and 'Alice in Wonderland,' as well as Disney's direct-to-video new releases starting in 2013," writes Lucas Shaw.

Just as we heard of the death of News Corp.'s iPad-only newspaper The Daily came news of another tablet pub: Symbolia, which tells its long-form stories in strip-style comics. The pub's "first issue, 'How We Survive,' combines the rugged hand-drawn texture of a 90’s zine with the investigative vigor and left-leaning politics of Mother Jones," writes Jessica Weisberg. "The digital format isn’t just an afterthought, as it is for many new prose publications. It is crucial to Symbolia’s method of telling stories," she writes."The pieces are often accompanied by ambient sounds, spot animations, and other interactive elements."