Alison Stewart's Bryant Park Project, NPR's $2 million-a-year morning show that hoped to draw younger listeners over the air and on the web, has been canceled. And so it remains: NPR is for old people who can't figure out how to change the dial. [NYT]

NPR's Bryant Park Project host Alison Stewart on her decision to leave MSNBC for the lower-paying radio gig: "I don’t need any more shoes. I have a lot of shoes." [NYO]

NPR Bryant Park Project anchor Alison Stewart met her now-husband Bill Wolff back when she worked as a daytime anchor at MSNBC. Wolff, the former primetime programming VP and current Tucker sidekick, came over after 13 years at ESPN. They began dating, after he got the okay from human resources, and they married in November 2006. According to TV Week, "to listen to them complete each other’s sentences and stories is alternately charming and alarmingly twins-like."

So perhaps it makes sense this twosome merged their personal and professional lives to begin working together, and not just for the same company.

When Stewart, who got her start at MTV News, left MSNBC (and a cozy Weekend Today newsreader gig) last year to do the Bryant Park Project radio show full-time with since-departed co-host Luke Burbank, Wolff followed her — and became the show's sports commentator.

So how to explain the bout of nepotism in her staffing decisions?

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Not only did MSNBC anchor Alison Stewart lose her own show The Most, but now she's causing problems for network superstar Keith Olbermann.

Filling in for The O Man last week, she hosted a segment about Wendy Vitter – wife to disgraced Sen. David Vitter, who admitted his name was on D.C. Madame Deborah Jeane Palfrey's client list – and the dress she wore to the press conference where the senator made the announcement. Let's just say, the dress was leopard print, and raised eyebrows.

Including Alison's. And, wouldn't you know it, Radar's Jeff Bercovici was there to take part in what some are calling a "low point in Countdown history" as they mocked her for looking all prostitute-y at a presser about prostitute-y things.

Last night, Keith apologized for it (see above video). Fox News might have Julia Allison, but now MSNBC has Bercovici.

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As Jeff Zucker weighs his options in restructuring NBC's Burbank operations, we hear MSNBC head Dan Abrams is readying the chopping block.

An insider tattles to us that there have been "lots of closed door meetings" regarding newlywed Alison Stewart's 3pm show The Most, which debuted in May. Obviously execs don't appreciate its worldly mix of news and entertainment: We're told to expect to see it cut next.

Meanwhile, a timeline is arising for the futures of Rita Cosby and Tucker Carlson. We already told you that Rita – who lost her own primetime show Live & Direct – was getting the ax. Her exit from the building, we hear, is imminent. And as for Carlson, whose Tucker has been hanging in there with a downsized staff? A February cancelation announcement is scheduled, says our source. All of this on top of the impending series of layoffs expected at the news channel under NBC 2.0.

All of which, meanwhile, makes congratulatory staff memo sent out this week by Dan Abrams – where he lauds staffers for boosting ratings – an invitation to call him an ass. And make toupee jokes.