The Monday night crash of the social media app that was supposed to enable viewers to play along with premiering "The Million Second Quiz" meant that "the new game show that was supposed to showcase  NBC's social TV cutting-edge-ness [had] instead embarrassed the network," writes Lisa De Moraes. Oops! The app returned Tuesday morning. Host Ryan Seacrest apologized to the audience for the snafu during Tuesday night's show.

A deal that would put Yankee games on WFAN radio, replacing the Mets, is reportedly close to fruition, according to a source cited by Neil Best. WFAN has been radio home for Mets games since the station began in July, 1987. Yankee games have been broadcast over WCBS radio -- which also owns WFAN -- since 2002.

Netflix will be available to U.K. subscribers of Virgin Media cable systems later this year, "marking the first time the Web-delivered product is integrated by a major pay-TV provider," writes Cliff Edwards. Virgin will begin testing Netflix  on 40,000 subscribers with TiVo set-top boxes.

The New York Daily News debuts the Innovation Lab, "a program that will provide select early-stage startup businesses with guidance, technical support, seed money and a crucial testing ground to cultivate tech products that will help transform the media business," writes Phyllis Furman. We recall that the New York Times is in the middle of a similar program -- which of course is not mentioned in this post that appears on the News site.In other news from the News that sort of one-ups a competitor, long-time New York Post TV critic Linda Stasi will now be writing for …

In its September debut, Esquire Network will now replace Style Network on the cable dial instead of the G4 channel, as originally planned. Games-oriented G4 of course has a male target demo, similar to Esquire's, while Style's is female-targeted -- but NBCUniversal said Style had overlap with other NBCU inventory. No word yet on G4's future.

It's a deal: Time Inc. will buy the American Express Publishing magazine inventory, made up of five titles: Travel + Leisure, Food & Wine, Departures, Executive Travel and Black Ink. The acquisition had been on the table for a few months.

The New York Times is developing a mobile app -- working title Need2 Know -- that will "offer users the perfect briefing not just on the news that’s already happened but on the events and stories up ahead that our editors have already got their eye on," CEO Mark Thompson said in a talk to the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.

The publisher of the Newark, N.J. Star-Ledger, Richard Vezza, threatened to shut down the paper by year's end "if it can’t come to an agreement with one of [its] four unions," writes Andrew Beaujon. Apparently, Vezza made a similar threat in June, but so far has failed to carry it out.

The lone Republican member of the FCC, Ajit Pai, is on a quest to save AM radio, whose gradual disappearance over many years has now been hastened by "rising interference from smartphones and consumer electronics that reduce many AM stations to little more than static," writes Edward Wyatt. "After a little more than a year in the job, [Pai] is urging the FCC to undertake an overhaul of AM radio, which he calls 'the audible core of our national culture.'”

Bravo Media president Frances Berwick will head Oxygen, replacing Jason Klarman, who's held that position since 2010, NBCUniversal announced today. In other restructuring news, "Jeff Wachtel, who had been co-president of USA Network, will assume the new role of president and chief content officer, NBCU Cable Entertainment, where he will work with the presidents and development teams at each network," writes Andrea Morabito