Inqlings: Eskin gets an assist from Reid

CBS Radio has arranged a bonus for Howard Eskin.

This season, The Coach's Show With Andy Reid has been moved from Eagles flagship station WYSP (94.1) to sports-talker WIP (610).

It is now part of Eskin's Monday afternoon-drive show. Eskin can use a boost. He and 950ESPN's Mike Missanelli have been locked in a ratings duel, and in the last several monthly Arbitron reports, Missanelli has beaten Eskin in key demographics.

Eskin's Monday show starts as usual at 3 p.m. At 5, from Chickie's & Pete's on Packer Avenue, Merrill Reese joins in. At 5:30, it becomes the Reid show until 6:30 p.m. Eskin, who has been accused of lobbing softballs at the Eagles over the years, asked tough questions last week over the signing of Michael Vick.

The arrangement holds through the football season, except when the Eagles play on Monday night; then the show will be on Tuesday. It also will air Sept. 8, the day after Labor Day.

Kevin Frazier of Entertainment Tonight will join CBS3's newscasts at noon and 6 p.m. tomorrow, and may host a portion of E.T. from CBS3's sky deck. Frazier and the CBS Early Show's Maggie Rodriguez will be at the station to hobnob with advertisers at the CW Philly's fall-premiere party.

Doylestown-raised American Idol alumnus Justin Guarini is behind "Sketched Out" (www.SketchedOutTv.com), a sketch-comedy/music show that he and creative partner Shaun Ingram are planning to shop around to TV outlets later this year.

New 16-minute episodes are scheduled to go online every two weeks. Episode four debuts today.

"Sketched Out" is a takeoff on shows he grew up watching - Abbott and Costello, Burns and Allen, Carol Burnett, Flip Wilson, and You Can't Do That on Television, says Guarini, 30. "I always wanted to do a show like that."

Guarini enlisted a local cast, including Sean Crisden, Frank Fierle, Amy Garber and Kathleen Gregory.

Guarini, who is doing red-carpet reporting for TV Guide and goes into the studio next month to cut an album, says he also has a musical date Oct. 10 at the Sellersville Theater 1894 in Bucks County.

DJ AM, the Philly-born front man of Dusk nightclub in Atlantic City, wore a Mets jersey to throw out the first pitch of Sunday's Phillies-Mets game. But he was spotted rooting for the Phillies. AM (Adam Goldstein) got hooked up with his mound appearance because Dusk is part of Caesars, and Caesars is a major sponsor at the new Citi Field in Queens, N.Y.

Positano Coast, the Italian seafood restaurant at Second and Walnut Streets, has announced that it will honor gift certificates issued by two seafood competitors that closed this year, Oceanaire and Old Original Bookbinder's. They're to be honored for full face value, up to $100.