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Stop me if you’re heard this before. The Today Show on NBC once again gave free air time to Fox’s American Idol.

This morning, an interview with Kevin Covais — followed by a brief performance from the kid they call “Chicken Little”, because of his resemblance to the Disney character.

Again I ask — why? Aside from the fact AI is a monster hit — why?

Call me crazy (you wouldn’t be the first) — but I think Today is better off doing interviews related to Deal or No Deal. To the best of my knowledge, they’ve done one where Matt played an abbreviated mock game with Howie live in the L.A. studio and half-a-dozen models and their respective cases. Because DoND has been one of few new NBC shows worth writing home about, it’s worthy of just a little more attention.

(Spoiler warning: Some results of last night’s DoND are included in this post. Stop now if you haven’t seen the show from 3/29/06 and don’t want to know ’til you see it.)

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To help get me in the Friday mood, I played the Deal or No Deal game on NBC.com. I picked case #23, in honor of the fact I popped the question to Cindy two years ago yesterday (March 23). The result…

…she just asked if I was entitled to 10% of this payoff. No, I responded, it’s all fictional fundage.

Tip of the cap to Jay Lewis, my buddy in Canada, for creating the “ten years on 104.5FM” open at www.dougmorris.net.