Cityfile: New York's Most Notable and Influential

• The broadcast of Super Bowl XLIII generated solid results for NBC, even though ratings were down 6% from last year. [THR]
• Super Bowl commercial hits and misses. [AdAge, NYT, AdWeek, AdAge]
• NBC reports its Super Bowl spots generated $206 million. [B&C]
• A last-minute deal will allow David Pecker to keep AMI out of bankruptcy and he'll get to keep his job. But he'll now have a new board to deal with. [NYP]
• Michael Boodro is out as editor of Martha Stewart Living. [NYP]
• Is Vibe in trouble? [Gawker]
• David Carr on the problems plaguing Condé Nast. [NYT]
• Fox's Taken was No. 1 at the box office this weekend. [THR]

• David Pecker's magazine empire may avoid bankruptcy after all. [NYP]
• The mood is expected to be bleak when Sundance kicks off next week. [WSJ]
• Discovery has signed Paula Zahn to create a weekly news show. [THR]
• An op-ed and podcast by Bono in the Times will debut on Sunday. [JR]
• Three more Politicker sites have been shuttered. [Jossip]
• The spring issue of Men's Vogue will be bound inside Vogue. [WWD]
• Katie Couric chats about feminism, Hillary, and the future of TV news. [CNP]

♦  Alan Colmes, the "liberal" who supposedly serves as co-host of Hannity & Colmes with Sean Hannity, is leaving the Fox News program at the end of the year. [HuffPo]
♦  A daily news program hosted by Christiane Amanpour is in the works at CNN. [NYT]
♦  Despite screwing up nearly everything he touches, NBC golden boy Ben Silverman may see his contract renewed in the next few weeks. [NYM]
♦  USA Today has announced plans to cut staff. [E&P]
♦  Twilight was No. 1 at the box office this weekend, raking in $70.5 mil. [LAT]
♦  Forbes is not being sold to a shady Russian billionaire. [SAI]More

♦  Election returns may set TV viewing records tonight, assuming there's some "suspense." [AP]
♦  What's been on cable news channels all day? Mindless talk and speculation, for the most part. [TV Decoder]
♦  It's possible the networks will call the election before the polls close. [THR]
♦  Some of the high-tech wizardry in store tonight: CNN plans to feature 3D "holographic images" of the network's remote correspondents in its New York studio. [WSJ]
♦  More trouble for tabloid kingpin David Pecker: John Miller, AMI's chief operating officer, has resigned. [NYP]More

• According to Nielsen, John McCain's acceptance speech at the RNC was watched by more people than Obama's speech last week. [TVWeek]
• Jeffrey Toobin on John McCain's speech last night: "The worst speech by a nominee that I've heard since Jimmy Carter in 1980." [HuffPo]
• Us Weekly's decision to take on Sarah Palin seems to have upset some subscribers. [MSNBC]
• Alessandra Stanley offers up her take on the O'Reilly-Obama match-up last night. [NYT]
• More trouble for magazine mogul David Pecker. [NYP]
• Jack Kliger will not be the chairman of Hachette after all. [Portfolio]
• One headline we never expected to see concerning Kathie Lee Gifford: "The Craziest (and Sexiest) Woman on TV." [Style.com]

• Temasek, Singapore's sovereign wealth fund, has "great confidence" in Merrill CEO John Thain. [Bloomberg]
• Henry Kravis's KKR, Hellman & Friedman and Bain Capital are all in the running to acquire Neuberger Berman from an ailing Lehman Brothers. [Dealbook]
  
• Who is financing big real estate deals now that the banks are pulling back? Hedge funds, of course. [WSJ]
• Ricoh will buy Ikon for $1.6 billion. [Reuters]
• Mattel was awarded $100 mil. in a suit over the Bratz line of dolls. [NYP]
• Amazon is buying Shelfari, the social network for book lovers. [NYT]
• David Pecker is hoping a refinancing at AMI will allow him to keep the company under his control. [NYP]
• Some data suggests the U.S. housing market may be edging towards a rebound. [FT]

• David Pecker's magazine conglomerate, AMI, may be turned over creditors. [NYP]
• The merger of XM and Sirius is, like, this close to receiving FCC approval. [NYT]
• Advertising revenue at the New York Times Co. dropped 10 percent and second-quarter earnings slipped 82 percent. [WSJ]
• Daily Candy will not be sold for $75 million. Bob Pittman isn't taking anything less than $100 million, thanks. [SAI]

• Clay Felker, the founding editor of New York, has died at 80. [NYM]
• Former AMI editorial director Bonnie Fuller made more than her boss, David Pecker, in 2007. And David Carr's profile of Fuller in the Times had a few fishy stats. [WWD, MB]
  
• Unfortunate news for Hamish Bowles: Vogue Living will not publish a scheduled second issue this year. [WWD]