Inqlings: Comcast calls Didinger's number

Here comes more Eagles coverage on Comcast SportsNet.

And more of Ray Didinger.

The former Bulletin and Philadelphia Daily News writer, who took a buyout from NFL Films in late February, signed a deal Thursday to go full time with SportsNet.

Didinger had been on SportsNet's Eagles Postgame Live since the cabler's 1997 sign-on.

In his new role, Didinger - honored by the Pro Football Hall of Fame as a writer - will turn up all over the schedule and on the Web, including csnphilly.com, Daily News Live, and SportsNite.

In his first act, he'll be on Eagles draft previews at 6:30 and 10 p.m. tomorrow on SportsNite.

Might we get sick of him? "I hope not," says Didinger, 62. "There's always that danger, but one thing we know about sports fans in this city is that they can talk about Eagles 365 days a year."

That's what sold Didinger on the viability of Eagles Postgame Live, which on paper does not seem workable: "It's a two-hour postgame show with four guys talking and no highlights." (The NFL embargoes clips till after the day's games.)

Didinger will maintain his Saturday call-in show with Glen Macnow from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on WIP-AM (610).

More sports-media notes:

Former Phils reliever Ricky Bottalico is enjoying more SportsNet work, thanks to his steady face time during the Phillies' playoff run last season and analyst Mitch Williams' heavier workload on MLB.com. He's doing pregame and postgame shows for SportsNet, getting frequent shots on Daily News Live, and just started a Sunday afternoon features show on WPHT-AM (1210) with Phillies publicist John Brazer. Bottalico, 39, occasionally does analyst work on Lehigh Valley IronPigs games.

WIP and the Flyers last week signed a deal for 610wip.com to stream games for the rest of the season, including playoffs. Games also can be heard via the AOL application for the iPhone or on Nobex Radio on the BlackBerry. NHL.com carries game audio, too.

How many Camacs can exist in the Washington Square West neighborhood? The owners of Tavern on Camac, a bar open for five years at 243 S. Camac St., are suing the owners of Camac, a bar that opened this year two blocks away, at 1305 Locust St. The lawsuit, filed in Common Pleas Court by Jeffrey C. Sotland of Mintzer, Sarowitz, Zeris, Ledva & Meyers, accuses the Camac owners of sowing confusion with the name and sending employees into Tavern on Camac to dispense drink coupons to divert customers. Ronald Gordon, attorney for Camac, said he could not comment until he obtained more information but said his client believed that Tavern on Camac employees were doing the same.

This week, M. Night Shyamalan and his Last Airbender cast and crew will shoot at the Navy Yard in South Philly on what could be the largest soundstage on the East Coast.

It's a World War II seaplane hangar that served as the PX for the Navy until it was decommissioned - 75-foot ceilings over about 100,000 square feet, or almost two football fields, including end zones. Paramount knocked out the hangar's temporary columns, walls, and ceilings, so it's all clear. "Built for war and indestructible" is how Greater Philadelphia Film Office head Sharon Pinkenson describes it. Before Shyamalan got ahold of it for his action film, it was used for storage of equipment for the X Games during the winter between the competition's two summers in Philadelphia.

Producer Frank Marshall has been busy dispensing Airbender info on Twitter (www.twitter.com/LeDoctor). Last week, he promised a teaser at the end of June.

Norristown native Sean Kirkpatrick (Kennedy-Kenrick High 2001) is leading a cast and crew around the city for his indie film, Redemption. It's the story of two Iraq War veterans who joined the service to escape their troubled neighborhoods but come home to violence. Kirkpatrick, working out of a Port Richmond rowhouse, lived and worked as an assistant director in L.A. for two years but felt he needed to shoot here with East Coast actors (New York's Mark Borkowski, who grew up in the neighborhood, and Chris Kerson). The city itself is a character in the drama, Kirkpatrick says. After wrapping April 23, he and producer Edward J. Eberwine III, whose grandfather was born in Fishtown, will shop it on the festival circuit.

West Chester native Katie Cavuto, 30, a registered dietitian who owns the personal-chef/in-home-nutrition service Healthy Bites, is one of 10 contestants on the next season of The Next Food Network Star, which will premiere June 7. Cavuto married Andrew Boyle, who's in commercial real estate, last month. Results are secret till the Aug. 2 finale. Winner gets a six-episode show. Last season, Camden's Aaron McCargo Jr. won, and Philly's Adam Gertler was runner-up.

Not secret any more is the reality fate of restaurateurs Angie Brown and daughter Samantha Johnson of the Chestnut Hill restaurant Soul. They competed on the NBC series The Chopping Block, which the network put on hiatus two weeks ago after only three episodes. Last week, NBC posted Episodes 4 and 5 on its affiliate site hulu.com. At the end of the fifth episode, host Marco Pierre White snarls at Brown and Johnson as he eliminates them, and they stomp off into the night. "It was 10 times harder than it looked on the show," says Brown, who adds that her daughter, a former Miss Pennsylvania USA, lost eight pounds from the stress. Brown, who says she has become friends with White, says she is developing a TV show of her own. She's also irked that she has been identified in the media as "Angiebrown," saying she never legally changed her name.

Casting call for More to Love, a Fox reality series in which plus-size women ages 25 to 33-ish vie for the attention of a husky man: 4 to 8 p.m. Thursday at the Lane Bryant store in King of Prussia. Details at www.moretolovecasting.com. Wags have already dubbed this summer series The Fatchelor.