The Federal Communications Commission is delaying its reverse auction of TV airwaves from next year to mid-2015. "At the auction, TV stations will consider bids to relinquish their airwaves and either go out of business or be placed in another channel," writes Gautham Nagesh. "The spectrum will then be put up for licensing by wireless carriers, who covet the low-frequency airwaves because they can cover greater distances and travel more easily through physical barriers."

Condé Nast Entertainment has begun streaming more than 600 episodes of digital video content on Roku, the "over the top" set-top box that streams programming to the Internet. "CNE now produces up to 40 new episodes a week on a growing portfolio of regular shows," writes Steve Smith.And in mid-March the glossy publisher's Brides magazine will begin streaming its second version of "Brides Live Wedding,"  a weekly Web series "where readers can plan a couple’s wedding via social media by voting on everything from the dress to the flowers,"  writes Lucia Moses in Adweek. "Every aspect of …

Television's musical event of the season was not last week's live "Sound Of Music" broadcast on NBC, but the "hilarious musical episode of the USA series 'Psych'" set to run Dec. 15, according to Neil Genzlinger.  Considering the tradition of other long-running shows that create musical episodes, Genzlinger, tongue in cheek, suggests possibilities from "60 Minutes" recruiting the Muppets -- "because “Fozzie' is practically the only thing that rhymes with 'Benghazi'" -- to pairing Broadway singers from "The Good Wife" and "Modern Family" (Alan Cumming and Jesse Tyler Ferguson, respectively).

Today's Google Doodle celebrates what would have been the 107th birthday of computer pioneer Grace Hopper. She created COBOL code and coined term "bug in the system"--when a real bug caused a glitch. 

ABC is reducing the number of "Scandal" episodes to air this season, from 18 to 22. While the network "wouldn’t give a reason for the cutback" in production of the hit drama, Nellie Andreeva speculates that star Kerry Washington's pregnancy is key: "it’s getting hard to hide the pregnancy in loose-fitting clothes for the normally super stylish and elegant Olivia Pope — and it’s hard to reduce Washington’s workload as Pope is the show and in most scenes."

Advance Publications, which owns the The Star-Ledger, three other daily and seven weekly New Jersey newspapers, is "looking at ways for those properties to work together more effectively — including possible consolidations," writes Ted Sherman. "Many of Advance's papers in other states — including Michigan, Alabama, Louisiana and Oregon — have undergone dramatic transformations in recent years."

Condé Nast has formed a new global e-commerce division, with just-named president Franck Zayan, currently responsible for the e-commerce activities of French department store Galeries Lafayette, set to begin his tour of duty Jan. 6. So far, "no decisions have been made about what the new e-commerce division will sell," but it should be operational by the end of next year, writes Samantha Conti.

Rolling Stone magazine will introduce a website devoted to coverage of country music -- for which the pub is opening a Nashville editorial office -- in the second quarter of the new year. Rolling Stone Country's launch will also include a country-themed print issue, a first for the pub, which has always focused on rock and pop music.

The New York Times launches Today's Paper on tablets and computers,  an app that "seems designed for readers who appreciate the benefits offered by digital but miss the experience of reading a definitive daily edition," writes Dante D'Orazio. "By limiting itself to content that's selected to go into the paper each day, Today's Paper should appeal to those who feel a bit overwhelmed by the full breadth of The New York Times' reporting."

Calvin Darden's purchase of Maxim mag from Alpha Media, which hit a financial speed bump, is back on track and set to close Friday, with Bob Guccione Jr. expected to become CEO. The move "marks Guccione's return to publishing and is likely to draw interest in the brand," writes Lucia Moses. "Guccione, the son of Penthouse founder Bob Guccione Sr., formerly ran Spin and Discover Media."