Hasta La Creative!

The streaming-video Web site had been seeking bids for months. The owners — 21st Century Fox, the Walt Disney Company and NBCUniversal — instead decided not to sell.

As companies like Tribune and Gannett buy up local television stations, the goal is not transformation, but leverage, using size to cut better deals with distributors and suppliers.

The NBC show was an ambitious effort to mimic the breadth of “60 Minutes,” but it never generated much of an audience. Friday was its last night.

Intel’s plan to create a virtual cable service is running up against a barricade being guarded by cable and satellite distributors.

The two independent agencies want to expand to handle larger accounts and compete better.

Ms. Turness, a British news executive, will face the same challenges as her counterparts at ABC and CBS as television viewers spend more time online.

The channel is adapting the show “Talk Stoop With Cat Greenleaf” for a series of vignettes that will appear during a daytime block of programming.

NBC and Fox are the first of the big broadcast networks to present their coming schedules.

At the annual upfront week, the largest broadcast networks and cable channels will show off their programming for the 2013-14 season in expensive presentations.

Citing strength in almost all its business units, the media giant reported $1.51 billion in profit, a 32 percent increase over a year earlier.