Hasta La Creative!

Most companies have not publicly spoken out against the proposed Comcast merger, partly to avoid antagonizing a company with which they do business.

The competition for advertising dollars for the 2014-15 television season is in full swing with Gannett, CMT and Screenvision on the agenda for Wednesday.

Even a cursory look at the media landscape suggests Rupert Murdoch is far from an outlier in wanting to see a property he built with his bare-knuckled hands land on his progeny.

TV Land, a Viacom cable channel, will have live ads with the characters from two series, “Hot in Cleveland” and “The Soul Man,” during special live broadcasts of the shows.

The legal dispute began in 2007 over allegations by Viacom that its material was appearing on YouTube without permission.

Writers based in the United States will team up with Chinese writers and filmmakers to develop stories and scripts that incorporate Chinese themes in Disney movies, the studio said.

A loss of roughly $1 billion in income from discontinued operations in the year-earlier period accounted for much of the decline.

The company said fourth-quarter earnings were aided by higher subscriber fees and an increase in cable advertising, and that Paramount Pictures narrowed its loss from a year ago.

The cable company announced that it had reached a multiyear agreement to renew distribution for Viacom Inc., whose networks include MTV, Comedy Central and Nickelodeon.

Stuart F. Sucherman, who has helped television networks solve some of their toughest problems, is leaving the chief executive’s suite, but not the consulting group he founded.