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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.

Police Groups Continue to Rip Tarantino as ‘Cop Hater’; Supporters Rally Around the Embattled Director

Police organizations continued to show support for New York officers by joining a call to boycott the films of Quentin Tarantino in the wake of his participation in a protest against police brutality. Meanwhile, members of organizations actively protesting police killings…

HBO Changes Its Mind, Cancels Series

HBO is pulling the plug on a series after initially deciding to bring it back. TVbytheNumbers.com reports that the pay-cable channel will not go ahead with a second season of “The Brink” after all. The comedy, created by brothers Kim…

Tech Glitches Hit Game 1 of World Series

The 2015 World Series stumbled out of the starting gate on Fox, when Tuesday night’s Game 1 went off the air because the network lost power to its broadcast truck. USA Today reports that the game in Kansas City was…

CBS Series Gets Full-Season Order — and Faces the Tall Task of Filling In for Football

CBS has given out its second full-season order among its new fall shows, extending the run of the freshman comedy series “Life in Pieces,” TVbytheNumbers.com reports. The back-nine order follows an earlier extension for the drama series “Limitless.” “Life in…

Weather Channel to Carry On as a Standalone After IBM Purchases Much of the Company

IBM today was putting the finishing touches on an acquisition of The Weather Company, which owns the cable and satellite channel The Weather Channel. But the channel quickly sent out word that it will stand alone and is not part…

Two GOP Presidential Debates Set for the Same Day

Two Republican presidential debates are scheduled for the same day, with one event billed as the “undercard” to the main event. Fox Business Network and The Wall Street Journal announced the plans today, with the debates set for Tuesday, Nov….

Cable Net Says New Programming Initiative Will Give It the Lowest Average Commercial Time in All of Television

A cable channel announced plans today to tweak its programming with moves that the network says will result in the lowest average commercial time in all of television. The channel is Turner Broadcasting’s truTV, which is marking the one-year anniversary…

Miss Universe Pageant Finds a New Broadcast Home

After being sold off by Donald Trump amid his beef with NBC, the Miss Universe Pageant has landed on Fox. Bloomberg reports that Fox will air Miss Universe and Miss USA. “Contestants from more than 80 countries will take part…

Jimmy Fallon Becomes a Theme Park Ride

Jimmy Fallon announced on NBC’s “Tonight Show” that he is becoming a theme park ride, along the lines, he says, of Harry Potter-themed rides. “Race Through New York Starring Jimmy Fallon” is set to open at Universal Studios in Orlando in…

Tonight, Live From Boulder, Colorado: The Donald vs. Ben Carson vs. Weed

Signs of the times, Part One: Writes CNBC in this program note: “’Your Money, Your Vote: The Republican Presidential Debate’ on tonight [on CNBC]. The debate will feature two sets of candidates discussing critical issues facing America today, including job…