Hasta La Creative!

The $170 million deal for Gracenote, a subsidiary of Sony, adds to the Tribune Company’s growing repository of entertainment metadata.

John C. Malone, the chairman of Liberty Media, is working behind the scenes to gain control of Time Warner Cable, seeking a second act in an industry he once dominated.

Stations in cities like New York, Los Angeles and Chicago were not carried by Time Warner Cable for a month in the summer during a contract dispute.

The protracted distribution negotiations under way between Dish Network and the Walt Disney Company are said to focus on digital rights like ad-skipping and online streaming.

The all-football channel has gone from an uncertain start to 13 regular-season games, 17 studio shows and more than 70 on-air personalities.

In a sign of the shift toward the Internet delivery of television, cable companies are talking with Netflix about making it available like any other channel.

The company’s program, which would begin in fall 2014, should soothe television executives eager to get credit for fans who don’t use ordinary TVs.

An agreement with Time Warner Cable restores CBS and its related channels, like Showtime, to millions of cable subscribers largely in three major cities, New York, Los Angeles and Dallas.

The deal was “reached swiftly and amicably,” said CBS’s president, Leslie Moonves, even as a stand-off with Time Warner Cable persisted.

While change is coming to the television set, for now the best way to get access to online video is through game consoles and other devices like Apple TV and Google’s Chromecast.