Inqlings | Taking a beef to a TV judge

Kidd Chris

will do his afternoon show on WYSP today from a New York studio because two of his associates have a court date.

"Open Mike" Dunlop, the show's former producer, says his former roommate Thomas Kitajima stiffed him out of $1,500 from the security deposit on the apartment they shared in Northeast Philly. So Dunlop and Kitajima, a sidekick known only as Thomas, will tell their story to Judge David Young.

These guys being entertainers, it's no surprise that Young is a TV judge. The show, cleverly called Judge David Young, hits syndication this fall and will be seen on CW57.

Martha Reeves

will ring the opening bell tomorrow at the Philadelphia Stock Exchange. The Motown legend is a delegate representing Detroit at the national convention of the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA), meeting today through Saturday in Center City.

AFTRA represents actors, performers and broadcasters. Though not all of the 320 delegates have household names, you've seen their faces and heard their voices. (One delegate you might have recognized, Morgan Fairchild, had to bail at the last minute because she got an audition, says a rep.)

AFTRA's opening speakers today include Gov. Rendell, national president Roberta Reardon, and Philly president Catherine Brown. Tomorrow, AFTRA will salute the TV shows American Idol, Passions and Sesame Street with its American Scene Award honors, which recognize programming that portrays diversity in a positive and realistic light.

On the business side, delegates will be hashing strategy on eight contracts coming up soon: sound recordings, network radio, network TV, nonbroadcast/industrial, CBS/ABC Network News, prime-time dramatic TV, TV/radio commercials, and interactive media.

Before they were the

Beatles

, they were the Quarrymen. But for a spell in 1960, they were the Beatals. Stuart Sutcliffe, the so-called Fifth Beatle, wrote to clubs, hoping for bookings. "I would like to draw your attention to the Quar" - he wrote, before correcting it to "Beatals." The note, the first known reference to the band, has been incorporated into a painting by Sutcliffe, who died at age 21 in 1962. The limited-edition print ($300) - published by Lafayette Hill's

Neal Glaser

and Blue Bell's

Scott Segelbaum

- is part of Segelbaum's touring Rock Art Show, stopping Saturday through Aug. 4 at Coll's Custom Framing, 324 Fayette St., Conshohocken.

High Philly-area presence in the list of nominees for this year's Marconi Awards, to be handed out in September by the National Association of Broadcasters. WMMR (93.3) is up for both legendary station

and

rock station;

Preston & Steve

of WMMR and

Joe "Butterball" Tamburro

of WDAS (105.3) are up for major-market personality; Delaware's WDEL (1150) is nominated for medium-market station; and WBEB (101.1) is up for adult-contemporary station. Three syndicated hosts heard here also are nominees:

Steve Harvey

(on WDAS);

Delilah

(on B101; Delaware's WJBR, 99.5; and Lehigh Valley's WLEV, 100.7); and

Sean Hannity

(on WPHT, 1210; Wilmington's WILM, 1450; and Allentown's WAEB, 790).

The Free Beer & Hot Wings Show, heard until last fall on the station formerly known as The Hawk, will start July 30 in the 10 p.m.-to-1 a.m. block on WMGK (102.9). The show, beamed out of Grand Rapids, Mich., replaces Alice Cooper's show.

Eagle-eyed (or legal-eyed) viewers asked why CBS3's Susan Barnett was spotted last week anchoring wedding-ringless. "Once in a while, I forget to put it back on after putting lotion on," says Barnett, who had put the ring in a safe toward the end of her pregnancy because of swelling. She and husband Greg Persichetti had a son on Dec. 26.