The Ticker: Castro, Proxmire, Dhaliwal, Floyd, Dimond, Hume…

> CNN carried President Bush’s surprise televised radio address live at 10:06am, while FNC aired its business block. CNN Pipeline carried Bush, too, but there was no audio when I tried to listen in…

> On Sunday, Good Morning America “weekend weather and features correspondent” Marysol Castro will report live from New Orleans as the city re-launches its famous streetcar system. Is this a tryout for Castro as ABC looks for a new weathercaster?

> Senator Bill Proxmire, who died this week, was the inspiration for NBC’s “The Fleecing of America” franchise, Dave Forman blogs…

> Former CNN International anchor Daljit Dhaliwal is “presenting the BBC World News from NYC” now, an e-mailer says…

> From an e-mailer: “On Court TV’s Catherine Crier Live there was an ‘end year review’ of justice & political news. They were discussing the Michael Jackson case & Court TV’s Jami Floyd made a comment that she doesn’t believe any of these ‘reports’ that Jackson is in debt in Bahrain that some reporters who have been covering him for a very long time need to check their sources and tell their sources to shut up and get the facts correct for once. Was she talking about Diane Dimond?”

>FNC’s interview with the President gave Brit Hume a ratings boost and gave viewers a peek inside Bush’s iPod…