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Chuck Ross

Chuck Ross is the managing director of TVWeek.com. He's been involved in the TV business ever since he sold cable TV subscriptions in Santa Monica, Calif., door-to-door in the mid-to-late 1970s. He's had regular gigs reporting and/or editing about TV and advertising for Cablevision magazine,The Hollywood Reporter, the San Francisco Chronicle, Inside Media and Advertising Age. He first joined the predecessor to TVWeek, Electronic Media, in 2000.

Why Facebook Live Is Going All ‘Night of the Living Dead’

Director George A. Romero’s 1968 horror classic “Night of the Living Dead” will be running a marathon on Facebook Live for 12 hours on Feb. 4 in honor of Romero’s birthday. Syfy, which is orchestrating the event, announced plans today,…

Jon Stewart Reads Trump’s Next Set of Executive Orders

Onetime late-night talk fixture Jon Stewart returned to the daypart this week, appearing as a “friend of the show” on CBS’s “Late Show with Stephen Colbert” with a list of upcoming executive orders from Donald Trump. Here’s the clip …

Kelly Ripa Brings Aboard Celebrity Lineup for ‘Live With Kelly’ After-Oscars Show

The annual after-Oscars edition of “Live with Kelly” on Monday morning, Feb. 27, will feature Kelly Ripa’s guest co-host Ryan Seacrest along with Grammy-nominated producer and music mogul DJ Khaled and hip-hop star Flo Rida. “DJ Khaled, known as the…

Univision Loses Millions of Homes on Charter-Spectrum in Retrans Dispute

A tense standoff between Univision Communications and Charter Communications caused Charter-Spectrum’s millions of homes to abruptly drop Univision this morning, The Los Angeles Times reports. “Late Tuesday, Univision said Charter no longer had legal authorization to distribute its channels —…

Oxygen Commits to Crime

Oxygen Media is betting that crime will pay, with an overhaul of its programming focus to put crime content front and center and the aim of making Oxygen “a crime destination network for women,” the network announced today. The network will…

Here Are Some of the Weirdest Wagers You Can Make on the 2017 Super Bowl

From the color of the postgame Gatorade bath to how long it will take for country singer Luke Bryan to get through the National Anthem, gamblers reportedly have as many as 700 different ways to wager on this year’s Super…

Oxygen Media Will Expand to a Crime Destination Network in Summer 2017

Press release from Oxygen Media, Feb. 1, 2017: Oxygen Media is refocusing its programming and will expand to a crime destination network for women, it was announced today by Frances Berwick, President, Lifestyle Networks, NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment. Oxygen recently grew…

New FCC Chairman Gets Busy Cutting Back on Regulations

The new head of the Federal Communications Commission has vowed to reduce regulatory barriers to growth and innovation and to make a priority of reducing the digital divide, and The Hill reports that today Ajit Pai led the panel in…

Budweiser Unveils Super Bowl Ad Focusing on Immigration

Super Bowl advertising fixture Budweiser today released an ad for the 2017 Super Bowl, which will be held Sunday. The ad, titled “Born the Hard Way,” tells an immigration story about the company founder’s journey to America. Here it is…

What’s John Malkovich Doing in That Super Bowl Ad — and Why Is He So Angry?

In a new ad slated to run during this weekend’s Super Bowl, John Malkovich is seen struggling to try to get the JohnMalkovich.com url and becoming frustrated — and uttering profanity, which is bleeped — because someone else has it….