At 12:01 AM on January 1st, just after the ball drops in Time Square, Time Warner Cable's 13.3 million subscribers will lose 19 Viacom channels -- Comedy Central; CMT: Pure Country; Logo; Palladia; MTV; MTV 2; MTV Hits; MTV Jams; MTV Tr3s; Nickelodeon; Noggin; Nick 2; Nicktoons; Spike; The N; TV Land; Vh1; Vh1 Classic; Vh1 Soul.

Blog excerpt: "I can't believe that my new show The City is premiering tomorrow night! I am sooooo nervous for it!!! I just got to see an unfinished cut of the episode and I seriously got the chills."

UPickDaily is intended to allow kids to be "their own content providers, programing directors, distributors and news aggregators" on any number of topics, which also can include gaming, celebrities and the Internet.

The new application, called Slingplayer Mobile, allows you to watch and control your own TV and DVR remotely via the Internet. The application is currently in public beta and only available to customer in the U.S., Canada and the U.K.

NBC.com has a special website for the holidays this year covering all of their holiday programming.

MTV has confirmed its wacky plans to give a TV show to the young men behind CollegHumor.com. What a good time to review all we know about CollegeHumor boss Ricky Van Veen!

A brand spankin' new Muppets movie is coming to the small screen tonight. Letters to Santa stars all the muppets, and has appearances by Mayor Bloomberg (as himself), Uma Thurman, Nathan Lane, Whoopi Goldberg (as a cab driver) and 30 Rock's Jane Krakowski.

The best ones were adapted from cultural icons. Most of the worst were adapted from flavors of the month.

MTV is airing "Whitney Looks Back from The Hills to The City" special this afternoon to remind everyone how Whitney ended up in "The City" with a few sneak peeks of "The Hills" Season Final. Whitney is also on the cover of Page Six Magazine as "The New Carrie Bradshaw" and talking more about... "The City" of course.

The first ever late night talk show webisodes / reality webshow contest for Jimmy Fallon get a hosting job @ NBC starts now. New ones are up every night @ 12:30AM EST.