I sort of feel silly posting the weekly submission entry for What’s Hot/What’s Not seeing as I was in…um..New York City..most of the week. Nontheless, here it is. Post your submissions for what was hot and what was not. I’ll post the winners on Sunday…

Part of this blog’s routine is to scan the various media release sites for news and information on a daily basis. So I’ve noticed a recent noticeable uptick on the number of releases and alerts for CNBC on the NBC Media Village site.

Broadcasting & Cable’s Marisa Guthrie writes about the big web push NBC has planned on IVillage.com and MSNBC.com in conjunction with the premiere of the NBC News series “The Secret of her Success”…

“The Secret to Her Success” will originate on the Nightly News with Brian Williams, where it kicks off Monday with a segment by Dr. Nancy Snyderman on women’s health risks and which tests and screenings they should be asking their doctors for.

The week-long series will be featured prominently on iVillage.com and MSNBC.com. Women’s Web site iVillage will include polls, talk-back and question-and-answer features. MSNBC.com will feature original stories, videos and clips tied to the series.

Broadcasting & Cable’s Anne Becker and John Hemingway write about the MSNBC channel move on Time Warner cable in NYC…

Exact channel placement is actually of diminishing value to cable networks right now, as more viewers navigate to channels by scrolling through sophisticated on-screen displays, rather than simply clicking up the dial channel-by-channel.

“I think in this day and age, being lower or higher isn’t as important as the neighborhood,” said Henry Schleiff, president and CEO of Crown Media Holdings, parent of Hallmark Channel. Hallmark recently negotiated to be moved from channel 107 to channel 84 on Time Warner, placing it close to Turner Classic Movies, TV Land and HBO. “It is very important to be around networks like yours,” Schleiff added.

The New York Post’s Adam Buckman reviews MSNBC’s new Lockup series.

UPDATE: The Post fixed its broken link…

According to MSNBC’s prison docs - grouped under the umbrella title “Lockup” and ranging in location from California to Kentucky to Alabama, among others - gang affiliation can be critical to your long-term survival.

That presents a problem for me. I doubt the Mexican gangs would have me (I don’t think they take non-Mexicans) and the skinheads are much too anti-Semitic.

Maybe the solution would be to start my own, although I haven’t found any instructions on how to do this in any of the “Lockup” episodes I’ve seen lately on MSNBC. (The series is seen primarily on Friday evenings, but repeats can be found in other evening time periods, particularly on weekends.)

The Ventura County Star’s Allison Bruce writes about Mad Money’s USC visit…

That’s what happened Friday during the “lightning round,” a time when people lob stocks at Cramer and he gives his on-the-spot analysis to buy or sell.

The question was about NewMarket Corp.

“Holy Cow!” Cramer shouted, noting that it was the first time during a show in front of a live audience that he had been baffled by a stock.

He told the crowd he had been “pantsed” by the question and would have an answer on Monday’s show.

“It’s better to just own up to it, admit you don’t know it,” he explained as he tossed red squeeze bulls out to the more than 500 people in Bovard Auditorium who came to watch the animated former hedge fund manager.

The New York Times’ Abby Ellin has a profile of CNBC’s Dylan Ratigan. I expect this will be the first of many profile pieces of CNBC talent in the media as the network seeks to raise its profile ahead of the launch of Fox Business Network…

If Jim Cramer and Donny Deutsch stand for the voices of business success on CNBC, imparting years of experience to the stock-tip-hungry masses, Mr. Ratigan represents young Wall Street in the eyes of the network.

“The guy in the Porsche in the left lane going fast, that’s who Dylan is — the engine that powers it all,” said Jonathan Wald, a senior vice president of business news at CNBC. “He does appeal to women, not in a frat boy way, but he’s an attractive guy who smells of success.” (He does drive a Porsche.)

That the stock market itself has not smelled much like success in recent weeks hasn’t dampened the appetite for business news. Quite the contrary: viewers anxious about their portfolios have helped raise CNBC’s business-day lineup to its best August ratings in five years; the top-rated weekday program was Mr. Ratigan’s “Call,” averaging 114,000 viewers ages 25 to 54.

Mr. Ratigan sees it as his mission to inject virility into cable. There are exceptions, he said, like Mr. Cramer and CNN’s Jack Cafferty, “but as a general cultural phenomenon, political correctness and gender-neutral hypersensitivity has become so pervasive that it has made the landscape in American TV cable bland, predictable and uninteresting.”

It’s now official. Heather Nauert joins John Gibson on The Big Story on September 17th…

Red Eye’s Greg Gutfeld works in a zinger at Keith Olbermann in his Daily Gut blog…

So you’ve seen the latest message from our favorite goat-toucher Usama bin Laden. In it, he criticizes Americans for reelecting, instead of punishing, Bush, as well as harping on Democrats for not securing a retreat from Iraq. He also mentions global warming and praises Noam Chomsky, the patron saint of the left.

It was at this point, I thought I was listening to Keith Olbermann. That’s when it dawned on me. Bin Laden isn’t just a terrorist. He’s worse. A liberal!