Get your DVRs ready. You can call 10 p. m. Monday, Buffalo Time on cable TV. The time slot has three cable programs with Buffalo angles.

MTV’s newest competition-based reality series, “Making His Band,” follows Sean “Diddy” Combs “as he searches for the ultimate band to take on tour as he promotes his upcoming album.”

One of the 42 original contestants is Venzella “Joy” Williams, 20, a female drummer from Buffalo, who attempts to share the stage with Diddy. Nine contestants are eliminated Monday.

According to an MTV release, Williams will be a Canisius College senior in the fall and is majoring in criminal justice with a minor in music. She learned to play the drums by ear in church and is the head drummer at her church. She also has traveled across the country in the all-girl band Heaven Bound, which includes her sister and two best friends.

“Band” will compete with Terrell Owens’ VH1 reality program, “The T.O. Show.” From the previews, it appears that Monday’s episode is much more focused on Buffalo than the premiere. The preview clips include the arrival of the new Buffalo Bills receiver at the Buffalo Niagara airport and shots of Mayor Byron Brown giving him a conditional key to the city at the steps of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery.

And 10 p.m. Monday also is the time that the Travel Channel series, “Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations,” will carry a Rust Belt program in which he visits Buffalo, Baltimore and Detroit.

According to a Travel Channel release, “he meets up with FANatic Nelson Starr to try Buffalo’s signature dish, the beef on ’weck.” I’ll write more on “Reservations” on Thursday.

In these tough economic times, there is no short supply of rumors involving the TV industry. If I had a nickel for every one that I have to track down, I’d practically be as rich as the guy in NBC’s “The Philanthropist.”

The one rumor that won’t go away has Channel 2 News supplying Channel 7 with the news so Eyewitness News can drop its news division.

“It’s a complete and utter falsehood,” said Channel 2 General Manager Jim Toellner. “There is nothing going on.”

However, something very minor could be going on involving the combining of local news departments.

A trend nationwide is emerging in which TV news departments in certain markets— including Cleveland, Philadelphia, Tampa Bay and Grand Rapids, Mich.—are sharing video so that each station doesn’t have to send its own videographer to a structured news event.

Let’s say Mayor Brown is holding a news conference. Under this scenario, one of the local stations could shoot video that all the local channels could carry.

However, journalists would hope that each station would supply its own reporter to cover any story that could emerge from the news conference. Under this scenario, the stations could save time and money without damaging their product to any significant degree.

It wouldn’t be surprising if some kind of similar arrangement could happen here with two or more stations.

As far as any news department doing the overall work of two channels, as recently occurred in Syracuse, I can’t see that happening anytime soon.

Buffalo would seem to be too big a market for it to happen now, and there could be some union issues that could prevent it from happening without a fight.

But as far as the future, never say never.

Inquiring minds want to know: What is the chance that former Channel 4 meteorologist Mary Beth Wrobel will land on a rival station? I wouldn’t count on it, despite Wrobel’s popularity in the community.

Channel 2 seems to have decided on Maria Genero as the latest addition to its weather department.

Channel 7 is cutting expenses and appears unlikely to add any new employees unless they are willing to work cheap for freelance pay.

In another cost-cutting move, Channel 7 executives have told news staffers that it will be dropping Associated Press shortly. It follows an earlier decision to drop the Nielsen ratings service. Staffers have been told this is a corporate decision by the hedge fund sponsors, Silver Point Capital, that own the station and that the move will save at least $100,000. Dropping Nielsen probably saved five times that much.

However, the dropping of AP will have more of an impact on the news product than the dropping of Nielsen. Channel 7 News will have to get its information on national and international stories from ABC, CNN and the Internet, or confirm information on its own.