• Martha! Howard! Cosmo? Kate White is teaming with Sirius for a 24-hour channel to launch in 2006. But at this point, we're about the only ones without our own Sirius show. (Especially now that Oprah is signing on too. Jeez.)

• NBC News president Neal Shapiro is stepping down to pursue "the kind of creativity I've had in previous jobs." Namely, mastering the elongated chevron knitting stitch. Jeff Zucker named his replacement: Steve Capus, who's a bigger fan of the mistake rib.

• Meanwhile, Shaprio's stepping down is just the latest blow that's put network news on the brink of disaster that also includes ABC and CBS. Seating is first come, first served.

• Razor publisher (and Internet porn peddler) Richard Botto cut his staff loose on Thursday, notifying all that the struggling magazine would cease printing.

• Oh where, oh where, has MSNBC's weekend staff gone? With Hurricane Katrina taking up all available resources, they're operating on a skeleton crew — with honcho Rick Kaplan even exec producing their telethon. "there is NOBODY in charge ... NOBODY!!!"

• Former ESPN reporter Adrian Karsten was found dead from apparent suicide after facing a prison sentence for failing to report more than $600,000 in income.