Local stations going live for Cruz funeral

Today’s funeral of salsa legend Celia Cruz will be covered live by the area’s Spanish-language stations.

NY1 Noticias will provide wall-to-wall coverage of the funeral in its entirety from St Patrick’s Cathedral, beginning with live coverage of the funeral cortege. NY1 Noticias will then provide live coverage of the funeral mass at St. Patrick’s starting at 2 p.m. and will repeat the funeral at 8 p.m. tonight.

Univision’s Ch. 41 will air a four-hour special program, “Celia Cruz Vivara Por Siempre” (“Celia Cruz Will Live Forever”) from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. with anchors Rafael Pineda and Denisse Oller, and will feature live team coverage of the funeral. Cruz’s 1999 music video, “Mi Vida Es Cantar” (“Singing is My Life”) was written for the network’s “Se Siente” series.

Telemundo’s Ch. 47 will be live from noon to 4 p.m. with funeral coverage featuring Jose Diaz Balart, Ana Patricia

Candiani and Mauricio Zeilic, one of Cruz’s oldest friends.

Cruz died last Wednesday after a battle with a brain tumor.

News ‘Flash’: Dave mixes it up at Playboy

David Arquette was recently on the set of Playboy TV’s naked news show, “The Weekend Flash” – not to ogle the beauties (hey, he’s married to Courtney Cox, remember?) but to shoot a scene for “Mix It Up,” the show he and Cox are executive-producing for WE.

There’s a Playboy TV producer who will be featured on an upcoming episode of “Mixing It Up,” a home improvement series debuting in October, so Arquette was there to follow him around.

Meanwhile, “CSI: Miami” stars Adam Rodriguez and Rory Cochran were at the Florida Marlins game Sunday, and toured Pro Player Stadium while waiting out a rain delay. Rodriguez played baseball in high school – but he wasn’t much luck to Marlins phenom Dontrelle Willis, who was rocked by the Cubs.

It’s conceivable: Margolis gets booked

Cindy Margolis has inked a deal with Sheryl Berk (who co- wrote books with Britney Spears and Jamie-Lynn Sigler) to write an “in-the-bedroom,” behind-the-scenes look at what it took for her to conceive her son, Nicholas, via in-vitro fertilization.

And Stuff magazine was at Margolis’ house yesterday, doing a feature with Cindy and Antonio Fargas (who played Huggy Bear on “Starsky and Hutch”) for the mag’s September issue. Gotham Games is promoting the release of two PlayStation2 games, “Celebrity DeathMatch” (featuring Margolis) and “Starsky and Hutch” (featuring Fargas).

Last, but not least . . .

* At ABC: Paul Mason will executive- produce a series of new Monday editions of “Primetime” debuting Sept. 15 (8 p.m.) and originating from different cities.

* Marcia Clark, on tonight’s “ET,” on Kobe Bryant’s fame: “It helps him

because he’s a good-guy athlete who is beloved . . . people can also look at it like, ‘Those entitled celebrities, they think they can get away with anything.'”

* Say cheese: John Scotto and Marion Scotto (Fresco By Scotto) – the brother and mom of Ch. 5’s Rosanna Scotto – are back on QVC today (2 p.m.) selling the restaurant’s lasagna.

* Ch. 2’s Andrew Kirtzman today on “Catherine Crier Live” (5 p.m./ Court TV).

* Ch. 11 reporter Alyssa Coleman, who still carries a photo of her late, beloved golden retriever, Cashie, reports tomorrow at 10 p.m. on Angel’s Gate, an animal hospice in Fort Salonga on Long Island.