The Monsters are being put back together - in a new, two-dimensional form.

Comcast SportsNet Chicago announced Monday that Mike North and Dan Jiggetts, who teamed for eight years as the "Monsters of the Midday" on WSCR 670-AM, will reunite with the new year as hosts of a live weekday morning show on the cable sports channel.

"Monsters of the Morning" will be a "radio-style show on television," North said. It will run from 6-9 a.m. beginning in January.

"We are very excited to welcome Mike North to his new home," said James Corno, CSNC president. "He and Dan made a fabulous team on radio for many years, and we're confident Chicago sports fans will appreciate what they will bring to local morning television beginning next year."

It potentially gives CSNC appointment TV at a time of day few sets are tuned to the sports channel, but it's not without risk, given how North has been known for controversy, and the station is owned in part by the Cubs, White Sox, Bulls and Blackhawks. CSNC has managed to maintain its editorial independence so far, but North promised new confrontations.

"Where the line is, we're going to find out," he said. "I'm really partners with the teams. It's going to be interesting going through the minefields."

Yet North and Jiggetts are also old pros who wouldn't figure to bite the hand that feeds them - not too viciously or too often, anyway.

The show could wind up simulcast via radio or the Internet. North, an original employee of the Score, left all-sports 670-AM this summer when they couldn't agree on a contract extension. He is currently doing a weekday talk show on the web at wildfirerestaurant.com and his own northtonorth.com site from 9-11 a.m.