Some tasty new items and some leftovers before the Thanksgiving holiday:

Channel 7 anchor Keith Radford has plenty to be thankful about.

Radford, 58, whose contract had been scheduled to run out at the end of this month, confirmed that he signed a new three-year deal a few months ago.

The new deal should enable Radford to celebrate his 25th anniversary at the station about the time it expires. Of course, that’s if one of the options in the deal isn’t triggered by Radford or management.

“I’m pleased that I’m staying,” said Radford. “I didn’t want to go anywhere. I like what I do. The times are challenging. You do what you have to do. You adapt or you move to some other line of work.”

Asked if he had to take a pay cut in the new deal, Radford replied, “I did what I had to do.”

However, he added “that’s commonplace of anchors of my age in every market in the country.”

Translation: He took a pay cut. Radford believes he currently is the second- longest continuing anchor in Western New York, behind only Channel 4’s Jacquie Walker. Channel 4’s Don Postles, who has had stops at Channel 7 and Channel 2, left the area for a while to anchor in Fresno, Calif.

Tonight’s the night the November sweeps end, and it looks like there may be some interesting results in local news.

After the first three weeks, Channel 2’s “Daybreak” was well ahead of Channel 4’s “Wake Up!” at 6 a. m. for first place in the first sweeps since John Beard replaced Pete Gallivan as Jodi Johnston’s co-anchor on 2.

At 11 p. m., Channel 2 and Channel 7 were in a virtual tie for second place, largely because Channel 2’s numbers have dropped severely because of the lead-in from “The Jay Leno Show.”

The recent deal that would have Comcast Cable take over NBC could severely impact NBC affiliates like Channel 2. After all, why would a cable provider need an affiliate when it can put its own network directly on cable and may even be able to convince other cable operators to do the same?

Producers and writers have to love HBO, which rarely cancels any show. It has renewed “Real Time with Bill Maher,” “In Treatment” and even the suitably titled “Bored to Death.”

Like everything else in television, “The Oprah Winfrey Show” has experienced substantial ratings losses as more choices have become available. That is especially evident in Western New York. At its peak in February 2005, Oprah’s show averaged about a 10.6 rating on Channel 4. Since the new TV season begin this September, “Oprah” is No. 1 with a 5.7 average rating to a 4.0 for “The Doctors” and a 3.1 for “Ellen.”

Jason Lee of “My Name Is Earl” will star in a new TNT pilot, “Delta Blues,” in which he plays a Memphis police officer who moonlights as an Elvis impersonator. I kid you not. One of the producers is George Clooney.

The season finale of HBO’s “Curb Your Enthusiasm” that ended the “Seinfeld Reunion” story line had its funny moments Sunday. Having said that, I was a little disappointed in the 40-minute episode.

One of the repetitive jokes in the finale was how often people say “having said that” to counter a previous opinion.

Spoiler alert. If you plan on watching the “Curb” finale in reruns or on On Demand, stop reading now.

In the episode, “Curb” writer-producer-star Larry David had his usual quota of annoyances. He got in an argument with a coffee stand operator about the meaning of doing a favor. He was upset when he was falsely accused by Julia Louis-Dreyfus (Elaine) of putting a drink stain on a piece of antique furniture.

And he became extremely jealous of the developing relationship between his ex-wife on the show, Cheryl (Cheryl Hines), and Jason Alexander (George). Cheryl was playing George’s ex-wife in the “Seinfeld Reunion” story line that David created in an attempt to get back with his wife.

David was so annoyed that he rewrote the script, prompting Alexander to briefly quit in disgust over the changes and David to get a tryout playing George. Since George was based on the annoying David in real life, you might have thought he could pull it off.

David badly overacted, was criticized by the cast and quit. But surprise, surprise, Cheryl quit, too. She decided she belonged with Larry, which briefly suggested the second “Seinfeld” finale might have a happy ending. Not so fast.

Larry being Larry, he quickly put a new stain on his romantic reunion with Cheryl after learning she was responsible for the furniture stain.

It all was very clever, consistent with David’s demeanor and no one landed in jail. But having said that, I just wish I laughed more often and that Jerry, Elaine and Kramer (Michael Richards) had more to do.

The day after Thanksgiving will be a different kind of “Seinfeld” reunion on TBS. The cable channel is carrying a “Seinfeld” marathon.