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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.

Trump Renews His Assault on Fox News Host Megyn Kelly

GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump seized the opportunity to launch a new series of insults against Fox News host Megyn Kelly when she returned from vacation to host Monday night’s “The Kelly File.” The Washington Post reports that Trump couldn’t…

Ashley Madison Breach: Cheating Site Puts a Bounty on Hackers’ Heads as Lawsuits Take Shape; Police Suspect Suicides Are Linked to the Case

The turmoil surrounding the website whose slogan is “Life is short. Have an affair” is worsening in the wake of a security breach that exposed information about people who have allegedly been using the service, Ashley Madison, to cheat on…

Reality Star Faces Five Criminal Counts

A man who is known for his appearances on reality TV and in feature films faces five criminal counts in connection with a stunt in Hollywood earlier this month. As we reported previously, “Jackass” star Stephen Glover, better known as…

Art Masterpiece Worth $1.5 Million Damaged When 12-Year-Old Stumbles Into It — Here’s the Video

A 12-year-old boy put his hand through a painting valued at $1.5 million when he stumbled at an art exhibition in Taiwan and used the 17th century oil-on-canvas masterpiece to catch himself, the U.K. publication The Guardian reports. The video…

High-Profile MTV Show Under Attack — Even Before It Airs

A program that is set to be televised by MTV in a few days is already drawing criticism. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the “MTV Video Music Awards,” scheduled for Aug. 30, are under attack from the media watchdog organization…

CBS and Cablevision Come to Terms on Carriage

CBS Corp. and Cablevision Systems Corp. have reached a comprehensive multiyear content carriage agreement covering not only retransmission of CBS-owned stations but also carriage of Showtime, CBS Sports Network and Smithsonian Channel. The deal, which the companies announced today, also…

What’s Going on With the Stock Market? The View from an American Nobel Laureate in Economics Is Our Non-TV Story of the Day

Here’s Joseph Stiglitz, a professor at Columbia University and a 2001 winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, in an appearance on MSNBC’s “All In with Chris Hayes” on Monday, Aug. 24, 2015.

Katherine Heigl Returns to Shondaland in New Show

“Following a prolonged deal-making process, Katherine Heigl has been tapped to star in the retooled ‘Doubt’ pilot from ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ alums Tony Phelan and Joan Rater,” reports Lesley Goldberg of The Hollywood Reporter. The article notes, “Heigl replaces another Shondaland…

Whoa! Drama Debut Sets Record as the Highest-Rated Launch of a Cable Series

You knew this was gonna be big: the debut of a new series that is the companion of a hit show. “AMC’s ‘Fear the Walking Dead,’ the much-anticipated companion series to megahit zombie drama ‘The Walking Dead,’ opened to monster…

Media Stocks Battered Again Amid Broad Selloff

Today was another tough day for media stocks and for the stock market as a whole. MediaPost reports that concerns about China and the domestic economy sent stocks sharply downward. A number of media stocks were trading 3% to 5%…