Reuters - Worldwide subscriptions to Internet-based television platforms are on track to reach 19.6 million subscribers in 2008, a 64 percent increase, according to analysts at Gartner.

AP - Magician-daredevil David Blaine says he's unhappy with how he ended his latest stunt: hanging upside-down without a net high over Central Park for 60 hours.

AP - Regis Philbin has lost the "Best Regis" award yet again. And this time, it's personal: The winner is Philbin's infant grandson, William Xavier.

AP - Two Hollywood veterans, Laurence Mark and Bill Condon, will oversee the next Academy Awards telecast.

E! Online - Greed isn't so good for Ben Affleck.

E! Online - If 90210 can do it, why not Melrose Place?

AP - NBC News reporter Luke Russert said he made a "dumb" misstatement on the "Today" show Wednesday when he suggested that smart people supported Barack Obama for president.

AP - An unreleased recitation by Johnny Cash will be available as part of a new documentary examining Cash's views on America.

AP - The revelation that Clay Aiken is gay hasn't fazed Simon Cowell.

Reuters - In what amounts to a major coup for one of the United Kingdom's best-loved children's programs, Queen Elizabeth will host a special 50th birthday party for long-running BBC show "Blue Peter" at Buckingham Palace on October 16, it was announced Wednesday.

Reuters - As the campaigns and the nonpartisan Commission on Presidential Debates haggled into the night Wednesday on whether to go ahead with Friday night's first presidential debate, the television networks that would carry it were waiting for the smoke to clear.