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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.

MTV Unveils Psychedelic Moonman for This Year’s VMAs — Here It Is

MTV took the wraps off a new version of its venerable Moonman trophy, which will be handed out at the upcoming Video Music Awards. The new Moonman, designed by Jeremy Scott, is heavy on the rainbow theme and just a…

Subscribers Lose NFL Game in Retrans Dispute

A preseason NFL game featuring the home team was a casualty of a retransmission dispute that saw San Diego station KFMB-TV go dark for about 150,000 DirecTV customers, the Los Angeles Times reports. The family-owned CBS affiliate had its signal…

Winners of Teen Choice Awards Unveiled — Here’s the Full List

The winners of the “Teen Choice 2015” awards were unveiled Sunday in a ceremony aired live on Fox. Teen voters cast more than 25 million votes for their favorites using Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, among other outlets. Winners were named…

Blackout Averted in Dish-Sinclair Clash, But Still No Long-Term Resolution

Dish Network and Sinclair Broadcast Group have found a way to avert a blackout, for now. Bloomberg reports that the two companies “agreed on a short-term retransmission contract extension, easing a standoff between the companies that threatens customer access to…

Who’s ‘Behaving Badly’ Now? Discovery Family Channel Greenlights Two New Series That Answer the Question

The spotlight is about to be focused on two very different groups of players who will be “Behaving Badly,” according to an announcement from Discovery Family Channel. The channel has greenlighted two new original series, “Babies Behaving Badly” and “Beasts…

Winners of ‘Teen Choice 2015’ Announced

Press release from Fox, Aug. 16, 2015: The following were honored today at TEEN CHOICE 2015, which aired live on FOX from the University of Southern California’s Galen Center in Los Angeles. This year, teens logged on to TeenChoice.com, Facebook,…

Babies and Beasts Take a Walk on the Wild Side in Two New Discovery Family Channel Series ‘Babies Behaving Badly’ and ‘Beasts Behaving Badly’

Press release from Discovery Family Channel, Aug. 17, 2015: Discovery Family Channel today announced BABIES BEHAVING BADLY and BEASTS BEHAVING BADLY, two hilarious original series from Barcroft Productions featuring unfiltered real-life moments of mischief from the littlest humans and adorable…

Report: Networks Owe Advertisers Hundreds of Millions of Dollars in Ratings Shortfall

With the new fall TV season set to start next month, both buyers and sellers need to decide how to make advertisers whole from huge ratings shortfalls this past season, writes Claire Atkinson in the New York Post. “With the…

Julian Bond, Champion for Civil Rights, Dies at 75

Julian Bond, a charismatic figure of the 1960s civil rights movement, a lightning rod of the anti-Vietnam War campaign and a lifelong champion of equal rights, notably as chairman of the N.A.A.C.P., died on Saturday night in Fort Walton Beach,…

Morgan Freeman’s Granddaughter Killed in New York City

“Morgan Freeman’s granddaughter was stabbed to death Sunday morning in New York,” reports the Washington Post. Her name was E’Dena Hines. She was 33-years-old and was an actress. The story adds, “Authorities found a 30-year-old male suspect, whom police described…