NBC is fielding talks with Meredith Vieira about hosting a daytime talk show that could debut in next year's fall season -- and possibly put her into timeslot competition against her former show, "The View," and Katie Couric,  Vieira's predecessor on "Today."

Luxury lifestyle pub Bloomberg Pursuits just launched an iPad app, and  "is trying to make more inroads into fashion as it steps up its frequency to four times a year," writes Emma Bazilian. So the pub added two new staffers:  art director Anton Ioukhnovets, who, after stints at W and GQ, has "substantial fashion bona fides," and a luxury marketing consultant, Stephen Jacoby. New advertisers for the spring issue include Lamborghini and Lufthansa.

Yeah, of course the Lance Armstrong sitdown with OWN owner Oprah Winfrey could be a turning point in the low-rated channel's fortunes. But "another turning point — perhaps even bigger — came this month when OWN started to pocket substantial per-subscriber fees from some of the biggest cable and satellite operators in the country," writes Brian Stelter. Which means that OWN "should turn a profit for the first time in the second half of 2013," Stelter writes, citing co-owner Discovery Communications.Still, "Success for OWN is relative. Last year, 325,000 people watched the channel on a typical night, 160,000 …

Hearst has begun offering 22 magazine titles to iPad readers before their print editions are published, writes Peter Kafka.  Hearst says the initiative was Apple’s idea, and Apple says it invites other publishers to also offer early digital windows

McKinney, the Durham, NC-based ad agency which became part of South Korea’s Cheil Worldwide last summer, has hired Peter Nicholson, formerly with JWT and Redscout, to head a new office in New York City.  The McKinnney office will absorb a former Cheil USA office, with two of the latter’s executives  -- Alex Van Gestel, managing director, and Yusuf Chuku, head of strategic services -- staying on board.

Rolling Stone magazine just launched an iPad edition that will feature links to samples of music featured in reviews and articles; readers can also buy full-blown tracks from iTunes. A single issue is $4.99, same as the print version, with a digital subscriptions ($19.99) separate from a print one.

Weekly World News, the former supermarket tabloid gone digital in 2007, will put up a paywall, "though it's unclear when the subscription requirement will go up," writes Alexander Kaufman. Known for its "flashy, if far-fetched, headlines...the News, largely overshadowed by gossip sites like TMZ and Perez Hilton and by the satirists at the Onion, may have a hard time convincing people to pay to see half-boy-half-bat mutants," according to Kaufman.

The Star-Ledger, New Jersey's largest newspaper, lost almost 10% of its newsroom -- 18 staffers -- in the paper's "first ever large-scale layoff," which also included 16 other employees, writes Ted Sherman and Kelly Heyboyer. The paper, "which once had a job security pledge for its non-union employees, has [also] significantly cut staff over the last five years through buyouts and attrition."

Major personnel changes at Lucky magazine may foretell changes in frequency -- or at least a new focus on e-commerce -- for  the 12-year-old title, struggling after two years of consistent ad declines, writes Erik Maza. Publisher Marcy Bloom is leaving, and her replacement, Gillian Gorman Round, will be called general manager. While Brandon Holley will continue as editor in chief, she will  report to Round -- "the first time an editor in chief at Condé has ever reported to a business executive," writes Maza. Despite reports of the magazine going digital-only, "a source said that Condé has …

Advance Publications, parent to Condé Nast's glossy mags such as Vogue, has purchased Pop, a Seattle-based digital ad agency, for an undisclosed sum -- the first of such acquisition for Advance, "which has [also] treaded deeply into agency territory over the years by doing creative work directly for brands," writes Michael Learmonth. Pop was founded in 1996, and its 2012 revenues totaled $35 million working for clients such as Nike and Target.