Dr. Phil McGraw is keeping his day job for three more years. The host of the syndicated daytime talk show "Dr. Phil" is extending his contract through the 2008-09 season, sources said.

The latest portable media players strive to be the Swiss Army knives of digital content, giving you mobile access to your entire video and audio libraries. The Creative Zen Portable Media Center and the Datexx Pavio take very different paths to (almost) reach digital nirvana. As with many other Windows-based devices, the PC controls the content of Creative's Zen, which uses Microsoft's just-released Portable Media Center and Windows Media Player 10 software. Before you connect the player, you have to install applications from the included CD and download the latest Windows Media components, a process that takes more than 30 …

For the last several years, Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo have fought over an audience for console video games that is growing older and more mainstream. But Nintendo has largely had the market for hand-held games - which appeal mostly to children and teenagers - to itself.

Robin Quivers has her sights set on daytime television. The radio personality, best known as a co-host on Howard Stern's syndicated morning show, has signed a deal with Sony Pictures Television to create a pilot that would likely become a one-hour daytime talk show. It could launch as early as next year.

For years, consumers who wanted to cut the cord with their cable company found that getting television and high-speed Internet service often meant the inconvenience of finding two new providers. That's now changing. Cable's two hungry rivals - phone companies and satellite providers - are stealing cable's disgruntled customers with cheaper all-in-one packages that bundle TV with Internet and phone services.

In a stunning move announced just before the markets closed, Nike said its co-founder and president-CEO, Philip Knight, is resigning effective Dec. 28.

Mel Karmazin, who abruptly quit as president and chief operating officer of Viacom this year after a lengthy power struggle with his boss, resurfaced yesterday as the new chief executive of Sirius Satellite Radio.

Profits at Walt Disney have jumped after a strong performance from the firm's TV channels offset weaker revenues from its movie studio.

A premier entertainment publicist, Leslee Dart, is generating some publicity of her own. PMK/HBH, the agency she had helped lead for two decades, has ousted her over differences reflecting the potential difficulties in directing traffic at the intersection of Hollywood Boulevard and Madison Avenue.

A federal judge in Providence, R.I., convicted a veteran local television reporter of criminal contempt yesterday for refusing to identify the person who gave him an FBI videotape showing a top city official taking a bribe.