And when he does, rest assured, his most vocal public critic will be there to cry foul.

This morning, executives at the Fox Business Network officially announced that they will begin simulcasting Mr. Imus' WABC morning radio show, weekdays from 6 to 9 a.m., beginning on October 5. In the new arrangement, a handful of FBN reporters, including Jenna Lee and Connell McShane, will occasionally chime in to Imus in the Morning to report on breaking business stories.

But while an increasing number of journalists and media outlets may be ready to forgive Mr. Imus for referring in 2007 to the Rutgers womens basketball team as “nappy headed hos”, he'll receive no such clemency from his longtime most vocal, public critic--namely, Philip Nobile.

On Thursday afternoon, when The Observer reached Mr. Nobile, (a Brooklyn-based teacher and author, whom we profiled in the spring of 2007), he said he was not happy about the new arrangement. "But it is a fitting marriage," said Mr. Nobile. "It's a marriage made in hell."

Although Mr. Nobile (who once published a recurring column for TomPaine.com called "Imus Watch") doesn't monitor Mr. Imus  as carefully as he once did, he still occasionally tunes in and takes notes on Mr. Imus' program. "His bigotry has hardly disappeared," Mr. Nobile argued on Thursday afternoon. "Instead, his program now focuses its slurs almost exclusively on gays. His old favorites--faggot, fruit salad, carpetmuncher--have been euphemized into foreign slang like poofter (British) and finoccio (Italian)."

"So they can laugh about it without apparently rousing the media watchers like me," he added.
 
Over the years, Mr. Nobile has been kicked out of a number of venues, ranging from Yankee stadium to the 92nd Street Y, for protesting against Mr. Imus. Back in December of 2007, he was nearly arrested for protesting at Mr. Imus' live kick-off performance for RFD-TV and WABC radio at Manhattan's Town Hall.

When Mr. Imus makes his FBN debut on October, 5, Mr. Nobile knows where he'll be: outside the News Corp. headquarters on 6th Avenue, protest sign in hand.

"It is my fate," said Mr. Nobile, "to be Imus' Inspector Javert."

To wit: earlier this year, CNBC produced an original primetime special called Big Mac: Inside the McDonald’s Empire, which premiered on July 25, 2007, and was CNBC's best ever documentary premiere in both total viewers and adults 25-54.

According to CNBC, the Big Mac doc was the channel's highest performance of any CNBC original program in total viewers in prime time since November 2004. 

The numbers (as provided by CNBC): 

A25-54
9PM: 218,000
12AM: 181,000

Total Viewers
9PM: 514,000
12AM: 307,000

To wit: today through Friday, Fox Business Network's Alexis Glick will be conducting a three part interview with Joe Skinner, McDonald's Vice Chairman and CEO.

The interview, according to the press release, was filmed in one of McDonald’s "flagship" restaurants in Oak Brook, Illinois, and promises to touch upon a range of issues facing McDonald's, including branding, global expansion and the fast-food chain's "entry in the coffee wars."

According to today's press release, the show will focus "on the market, stock updates and major business headlines of the day."

TV Newser is reporting that Headline News, Fox Business Network, and CNBC are going with Mr. Mitchell. CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News are going with the dems.

"He's throwing grenades, and I'm a warrior so I respect that," Mr Deutsch told Portfolio.com's Lloyd Grove in an interview today, referring to Fox News president Roger Ailes. "Nobody's curing cancer here, and so people are going take off the gloves and want to knock dukes. That's fucking America, man! That's what this country is, so to me, I'll pick a guy like Roger Ailes any day of the week."

Mr. Ailes, however, may not feel the same way about Mr. Deutsch. He recently told the Columbus Dispatch, "I'm not sure if Donny Deutsch is really the answer for them, even though he announces he is. I'm not sure it's anything more than a very expensive way to meet girls for him."