Now here’s something you’ll really like: YouTube has a clip of Tucker Carlson’s first (possibly last?) appearance on ABC’s Dancing with the Stars, courtesy Wonkette.

The New York Times reports on two new developments in the race to get ahead in the “My Time” media biz: NBC created a new company that will distribute video to various Internet sites and reportedly take a 50 percent split of the ad revenues. And Apple CEO Steve Jobs yesterday unveiled a wireless device, dubbed iTV, that will pull video and music from the computer to the television. Apple also announced the pricing structure for downloads of new movies offered by its iTunes online store.

A Huffington Post plug for last night’s NewsHour segment on the ABC docudrama “Path to 9/11” drew some negative comments, and a lukewarm defense, of the NewsHour itself.

NPR said it has named Farai Chideya, a correspondent and sometime host for News & Notes, to replace Ed Gordon as host of the weekdaily public affairs hour. The network will also add online interactivity to the show produced with African-American pubradio stations. Chideya is founder of the Pop + Politics website and former talk host of San Francisco’s KALW-FM who has worked for ABC News, CNN, MTV, Oxygen cable channel and Newsweek. Nicole Childers was promoted to e.p. NPR and Gordon swapped some finger-pointing this summer over responsibility for the program’s limited carriage.

Ric Burns’ four-hour American Masters bio, Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film, is having digital theatrical debuts hosted by pubTV stations that began Sunday in 20 cities around the country, WNET announced. (The late artist’s brother, Paul Warhola, will appear at tomorrow’s screening in the Pittsburgh area, where Warhol grew up.) Emerging Pictures, which seeks to put arthouse films on more screens around the country, is distributing to theaters [15 listed].

“He is the wrong man in the wrong job at the wrong time,” says Common Cause President Chellie Pingree, in a press release announcing an e-lobbying campaign against Senate confirmation of CPB Board nominee Warren Bell. The nominee’s lack of interest in the field and provocatively anti-P.C. sense of humor disqualify him for the appointment, Common Cause says in a report posted on its website today.

TV ratings juggernaut Nielsen Media Research is in talks with Clear Channel’s electronic ratings service about measuring radio listening, potentially threatening Arbitron’s control of the industry, Mediaweek reports.

A state agency has cited a tower service company for three violations of safety regulations involved in a fatal accident on an Iowa Public Television tower near Des Moines, TV Technology reported. Three workers, including the proprietor of the company, were being lifted to change light bulbs on the tower when they fell 1,200 feet and died in the March incident.

Two of PBS’s top technical officers are leaving this month: Ed Caleca, senior v.p. of technology and operations, and Andre Mendes, chief technology integration officer, according to TV Technology. Caleca leaves Sept. 15 and Mendes Sept. 29, the magazine’s website said.

King Features Syndicate will begin distributing a weekly current-affairs column by Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman on Oct. 24, Editor & Publisher reports. She predicts “Amy Goodman: Breaking the Sound Barrier” will bring out voices of the “silenced majority.” Goodman and her journalist brother David are co-authors of this year’s Static: Government Liars, Media Cheerleaders, and the People Who Fight Back, now available at Wal-Mart!

This fall Public Radio International will launch Fair Game with Faith Salie, an hourlong evening program featuring interviews, political satire and in-studio musical performances. Host Salie has done standup comedy and appeared on TV shows including Significant Others and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.

Beginning early next year, American Public Media in St. Paul, Minn., will produce public radio’s Performance Today and SymphonyCast. NPR will end production of the shows as it prepares an online music service, which will include the classical music shows and other offerings from APM. (Coverage in the Washington Post.)

The New York Times reviews recent research findings on what toddlers learn from television while Slate speculates on whether there’s a link between autism and TV watching in early childhood.

WNIT in Elkhart, Ind., plans to move to downtown South Bend in 2009, taking over a building to be vacated by the local CBS affiliate.