• XM and Sirius may team up to spread Howard Stern, Oprah, Ellen, and satellite cancer waves together.

• Bonnie Fuller insists Courteney Cox's new show Dirt is wholeheartedly different than what goes on at Star. Which must be true, as some staffers of the fictional Dirt tabloid actually love coming to work each day.

• Unwilling to pay increased carriage fees, EchoStar's Dish satellite TV service sees CourtTV pulled, upsetting both customers.

• Star confuses Ashley and Mary-Kate, just like David Katzenberg and us.

• Upper echelon journos freak out at possibility of their peers being forced to testify.

• NYT national desk assistant editor Dana Canedy took over yesterday's front page to test out new design guidelines on news vs. commentary.

• Billy Bush looking to ditch.

• NBC's sports division claims ratings turnaround is due to the whole lotta people watching NFL games.

• Wired magazine moves to extend brand into TV. Viewers await Miss Seventeen levels of suspsene.