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Toyota dealers in five southeast states have pulled their commercials off ABC TV local affiliates, complaining about the coverage of Toyota safety problems by ABC News and its chief investigative correspondent Brian Ross.

The ad agency representing the 173 dealers told ABC affiliates last week that the shift was due to "excessive stories on the Toyota issues." The dealers shifted their commercial time buys to non-ABC stations in the same markets, "as punishment for the reporting," according to an ABC station manager.

CBS News is cutting jobs among at its news-gathering bureaus and TV shows, as it grapples with declining revenue.

The Associated Press has signed a licensing deal with Yahoo Inc. that gives the news cooperative a steady stream of revenue at a time less money is flowing in from newspapers and broadcasters.

Sarah Palin will become a contributor to Fox News.

John King is replacing Lou Dobbs on CNN. Jon Klein, CNN president, said Thursday that veteran reporter King will move into the 7 p.m. EST slot that's been vacated by Lou Dobbs. King will host a show about politics beginning early next year.

Lou Dobbs, the CNN anchor whose views on immigration made him a lightning rod, is leaving the network.

Two stations that regularly broadcast calls from the deposed president were closed in a crackdown on civil liberties by the de facto government.

Mr. Hewitt changed the course of broadcast news by creating the television magazine program for CBS.