Get out and play when Nick goes dark Saturday

Remotely interesting: Kids and parents, do not attempt to adjust your TV sets on Saturday. Nickelodeon and all its cable sibling stations will go dark from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. as part of its fourth annual Worldwide Day of Play. So get outside and do something, and only then come back to watch the "Let's Just Play Go Healthy Challenge" special at 5 p.m. on Nick.

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band perform on NBC's "Today" show this morning on WMAQ Channel 5. "Saturday Night Live" returns for its 33rd season with LeBron James as host and Kanye West as the musical guest at 10:30 on Channel 5. … Bravo runs a three-hour "30 Rock" marathon starting at noon Sunday. … BBC America presents two new news programs Monday. "BBC World News America" debuts at 6 p.m., with "World News Today" at 9 p.m.

End of the dial: WGN 720-AM's Kathy O'Malley and Orion Samuelson were among the many Tribune Co. staffers testifying how great the Trib is at the Federal Communications Commission hearing last week. Yet the law is clear: If the Tribune Co. is sold, its grandfather exemption in the newspaper-TV-radio cross-ownership ban is out, and the stations should be divested. O'Malley and Samuelson have their own media pulpit; they should be ashamed of gumming up the public-comment session.

"Midwest Ballroom" features an "Autumn Serenade" with music about fall at 5 p.m. Saturday on WDCB 90.9-FM.

Waste Watcher's choice

Adrian Lyne is the Waste Watcher's auteur, and he delivers big time with "Indecent Proposal." This trashy film imagines what would happen if a tycoon offered a man $1 million for his wife for one night. Robert Redford lowers himself to the level of Demi Moore and Woody Harrelson in this pile of crud. It's at 9 p.m. today on AMC.