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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.

For the First Time, the Discovery Networks Beat the NBCU Networks in This Impressive Category

For the first time ever, the networks owned by Discovery, Inc. (formerly Discovery Communications) have more female viewers than the networks owned by NBCUniversal during a Nielsen rating period, according to a press release by Discovery. Notes the New York…

Report: A CBS-Viacom Deal Could Be Announced Today. In Negotiations Over the Weekend Viacom Was Said to be Valued in the $13 Billion Range

“Board members of CBS and Viacom worked most of the weekend in an effort to reach a long-awaited merger agreement for the two halves of the Redstone media empire,” Variety’s business editor Cynthia Littleton writes in a story that was…

Jeffrey Epstein Found Dead in Manhattan Jail Cell; Police Officials Say It Was An Apparent Suicide

“Jeffrey Epstein, the millionaire financier and accused sex trafficker, is dead by apparent suicide, according to three officials familiar with the matter,” reports NBC News. The story continues, “Epstein was in his cell but was not on suicide watch at…

Emmy-Winning Actor Declines Audition with Israeli Producers Because a Previous Series of Theirs Cast Hamas in a Negative Light

An Emmy-winning actor “said in an op-ed today that he declined an audition for a new Netflix series because he didn’t want to work with two Israeli producers previously involved in a television show that casts Hamas in a negative…

‘Pose’ Will do a Time Jump in Its Season Finale

“‘Pose’ Executive Producer and co-creator Ryan Murphy said tonight that the Season 2 finale of the series will time jump to 1991, reports Deadline. Ryan also said “that he’s always envisioned the series ending in 1996, the year AIDS medications…

‘SNL’ Cast Member Announces Stand-Up Special for Netflix

The latest ‘Saturday Night Live’ cast member to announce a stand-up special on Netflix has been a fixture on the show for the last five seasons: Leslie Jones. As first reported by Bethy Squires of New York Magazine’s Vulture, Jones…

Alec Baldwin, Christian Slater and Jamie Dornan to Star in Series

Christian Slater, Alec Baldwin and Jamie Dornan (“Once Upon a Time,” the ‘Fifty Shades” movies) will all star in a new TV series, based on a true story, reports Variety. The series will be called “Dr. Death.” The show will…

President Trump Says ‘Hollywood Is Racist,’ Claims ‘All of the Heads of the Biggest [Hollywood] Companies Are Coming In’ to Talk

“After saying the industry ‘treats conservatives very unfairly,’ [President Trump] followed up with: ‘Hollywood — I don’t call them the elites because I think the elites are people they go after, in many cases — but Hollywood is really terrible….

World’s First Transgender Reality TV Star Dies at 38

“The world’s first transgender reality television star,” has died “under mysterious circumstances,” reports Variety. Miriam Rivera was just 38 years old, the story says. Though the story of Rivera’s death is just now being published, she actually died in February,…

CBS Ramps Up Launch Plans for Streaming Local News

CBS is accelerating its move into local streaming news services across the country. CBS Television Stations and CBS Interactive announced plans today to speed up the rollout of CBSN Local, the company’s local direct-to-consumer streaming news services, in all 13…