Fox has rejected a Super Bowl ad for a site called, innocently and innocuously, JesusHatesObama.com, calling it “unacceptable.” The site sells merchandise like mugs and T-shirts poking fun at the President and his policies and informs visitors that while they don’t actually believe Jesus hates Obama, they do believe in “the freedom to make fun of the Obama Administration with novelty T-shirts.”

British meteorologist Piers Corbyn appeared on Fox and Friends to not only celebrate his accurate prediction of a bone-chillingly cold winter, but to also share his disgust with the “failed science” known as global warming. Despite it often being mentioned that the scientific community agrees about global warming, Corbyn is proud to go against the grain and advocate for his hypothesis of the coming global cooling.

Talk about your tough game shows: they got the $80,000 question right, but lost anyway. Now the couple’s getting a do-over.

Gabe Okoye and Brittany Mayti were contestants on Fox’s new game show Million Dollar Money Drop (apparently money actually does drop) and somehow they lost $800,000 even though they had the right answer to the question, which came first–the Post-It Note or the Sony Walkman.

What? It didn’t work out? The winner of last season’s Hell’s Kitchen thought she’d scored an epic job: head chef at the Savoy Grill, a Gordon Ramsay restaurant project inside the massively renovated (£220 million) Savoy Hotel in London, which opens today.

If you watched the show, you were treated to endless mentions of the Savoy and the job–pitched as a massive prize for whichever contestant could endure the backstabbing among the other contestants and the withering criticism of Ramsay himself. And now? Well, winner Holli Ugalde’s not making the trip to London after all. “I’m extremely disappointed and I feel a little betrayed,” she tells the Daily Mail.

The biggest story of the year comes (mostly) to a conclusion tomorrow night, and every network you’d expect to be covering the midterm elections will be in grand fashion.

We at Mediaite will be taking the night off (ha, kidding), but here’s a list of all the places to tune your TV to Tuesday night – and what to expect.

The FCC – yes, that FCC – live-tweeted today’s playoff game between the San Francisco Giants and the Philadelphia Phillies – expressly for Cablevision customers who could not view it.

The rift between Cablevision and News Corp continues as the latter has now pulled the plug on the local New York Fox affiliates, Fox 5 and My9, which it owns. They are now also threatening to pull several other channels under their power, though the larger channels like Fox News are as yet unaffected. If they don’t settle today, however, subscribers will miss the first game of baseball’s National League Championship Series.

With the fight between Fox and Cablevision quickly approaching tomorrow night’s midnight deadline, is binding arbitration the answer to the growing annoyance of feuds between TV networks and cable companies? Congressmen Steve Israel and Peter King of New York think so, and they might be the right.

So. Mediaite is a year old. Or, rather, a year and six days old. Or 1.02 years. As the site’s self-appointed data geek, I thought that this first birthday deserved a special data-oriented tribute.

You’re a straight-laced local news anchor used to the typical wholesome news breaks and polite guests talking about their new products. Into your studio walks Jersey Shore’s Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino, selling a workout supplement. What do you do?

Are you a big fan of the NFL? And are you a big fan of Glee? Anyone still left?

FOX announced its fall and midseason schedule today at their upfront, and also revealed which show would get the coveted post-Super Bowl slot in February. And it’s going to involve a lot of singing.

Glee managed to land itself in the O’Reilly cable sphere last night after the guidance counselor character on the show, bemoaning the lack of positive female role models for young women these days, name-checks Ann Coulter as one. I think you can probably see where this is going.

Within minutes of the earthquake just off of Chile’s coast early this morning, the US Geological Survey had it pegged – an 8+ on the Richter scale, ten times as strong as Haiti’s 7.0. A short time later, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration presented a map of expected energy distribution throughout the Pacific Ocean. [...]

Shaun White, Lindsey Vonn, Shani Davis…your new American Idols!

For the first time in six years, American Idol did not finish #1 in the ratings – losing last night to NBC’s Olympics coverage that featured some big name Americans winning gold. The win had NBCU President Jeff Zucker bragging early this morning.

On Fox & Friends, an emergency heart procedure for an ex-president is a perfect opportunity for an ultra-partisan hypothetical situation: “If the democrats’ health care reform had gone through would President Clinton have received the stents?” The two stents Clinton was given on Thursday provided a jumping off point for a highly convoluted (and perhaps insensitive?) undermining of health care reform plans and the stimulus package.

Big Journalism correspondents usually stick to pointing out often legitimate spin against the right wing in the mainstream media, but Archy Cary went one step further to analyze the well-documented media bias against victims of natural and political disasters.

If the money is right and Conan O’Brien is game, Rupert Murdoch would have him join the Fox family “in a flash.” This is the latest in the post-late night war odyssey of finding a new home for the displaced Tonight Show host and his unique brand of comedy. While Murdoch, speaking to Reuters, noted that there have not been any “real negotiations” with the O’Brien camp and that there are “different opinions” on the matter, with the right numbers he did admit he is interested in entering the world of late night entertainment.

The question, koan-like in its infinitude and all-meaningfulness, of whether Rupert Murdoch‘s self-importance outstrips his actual importance at last seems capable of an answer. Today, one of Murdoch’s papers, The Australian, carries a story on a briefing Murdoch gave to announce the unexpectedly rosy results his media conglomerate Newscorps, enjoyed last quarter. The answer appears to be yes.

The overnight ratings are in for Pres. Obama’s first State of the Union, and the broadcast networks combined for 30.2 million total viewers during the 9-10:30pm speech.

The winner for the night – surprisingly it was FOX, which surely benefited from its American Idol lead-in.

Yesterday, we carried a story about CBS’s precedent-upending decision to run a “pro-life” advocacy ad by Focus on the Family during the Super Bowl. The ad is to feature Tim Tebow – the Heisman award-winning QB renowned, among other things, for his habit of quoting Hebrews with his eye-black. In it, Tim and his mother recount, allegedly without visible embarrassment, the saga of Tim’s conception, career as a fetus, and birth. You will be slightly less than astounded to learn that news of the ad has gone over very well with some, and very badly with others.

Robert Gibbs — who is well known for the frequency with which he gets very angry about Fox News — appeared on Fox and Friends, a show well known for sometimes getting fairly angry about Robert Gibbs. The ostensible purpose of the interview, which was conducted remotely, was to discuss what, exactly, Gibbs’s boss plans to tell the nation tonight. Shockingly, they all seemed to get along!

This year, it was Paula Abdul. Next year it will be Simon Cowell.

FOX and Cowell announced today this season would be his last with mega-hit American Idol, and beginning in 2011 he would be bringing his very American Idol-like X Factor across the pond and host the show for FOX as well.

Precious And The Chipmunks: The Squeakquel: the title kind of says it all. “Squeakquel” jokes have been in vogue since the Chipmunk movie’s holiday advertising blitz, but The Wanda Sykes Show takes them to a whole new level of shock humor by throwing the heart-wrenching grit of Precious into the mix, mashing up its trailer with The Squeakquel‘s. Video after the jump:

A new column in Newsweek by Daniel Gross examines the new wave of “old-school cable slugfests,” including, but not limited to “Rupert Murdoch vs. the bureaucrats of Time Warner; Scripps vs. the unpredictable Dolans of Cablevision; content vs. distribution.” They’re a sign of things to come, he writes, but they will also hurt consumers, who will be asked to pay more and more for products that are becoming free. Confusing, right?

Viewers watching Sunday night’s new episode of Family Guy on FOX might have been surprised to see what looked like one of Adult Swim’s telltale white-font-on-black-background ads. Only it wasn’t during the commercial break: it was in the middle of the episode. And it plugged Adult Swim as “funnier” than Fox for not cutting out jokes. What gives? Video after the jump: