The Ticker: Bartiromo, Murdoch, Zucker…

> Ad Age: Jeff Immelt defends Maria Bartiromo: “We’ve completed the review. She did nothing wrong…”

> Court TV is back on Dish Network; Turner and EchoStar “have signed an affiliation agreement that allows for the restored distribution…”

> Red Herring has this aside from Rupert Murdoch‘s recent Media Summit appearance: “Questioned on whether his personal right-leaning political alignment bleeds into coverage on Fox News, he characterized talk show host Sean Hannity as a ‘conservative,’ but called TV personality Bill O’Reilly a ‘populist…'”

> An e-mailer notes: “Erica Hill will be returning from maternity leave on Monday, Christi Paul said at the end of Friday’s Prime News…”

> J. Max Robins writes about Jeff Zucker‘s first 100 days: “The real question is: Will Zucker be a company man or a visionary?…”

> Starting Monday, MSNBC will begin running Imus in the Morning at 5:30, ICN says…