Chuck Ross

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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.

With the Tug of Its Ear, the Screen Actors Guild Names Famous TV Comedienne as Its Latest Lifetime Achievement Honoree

The 52nd recipient of SAG-AFTRA’s SAG Life Achievement Award for her career achievement and humanitarian accomplishment will be Carol Burnett, reports The Hollywood Reporter. The story says that Burnett will be presented with the award “at the 22nd annual Screen…

Harper Lee’s “Go Set a Watchman” Has Sold 1.1 Million Copies in Six Days, But It is NOT the Fastest Selling Novel of the Year. Guess What Book Is…

“’Go Set a Watchman,’ the surprise second novel by Harper Lee, has proven to be a hit with readers,” reports Carolyn Kellogg in the Los Angeles Times. She continues, “After being available for sale for just six days, it has…

Coming Up for the Dog Days of August, in both English and Español: Reruns of the Ultimate Summer Series, One the New York Times Once Said “has a wider audience on the planet Earth than any other entertainment show in history”

This one is courtesy of one of our daily must-reads, Marc Berman’s TV Media Insights: the return of reruns of “Baywatch.” Writes the always insightful Berman: “Fans looking to revisit David Hasselhoff, Pamela Anderson and their sun-soaked co-stars can do…

Newseum Get $5 Million Donation From Major Broadcaster

A major broadcaster has “has made a $5 million gift to the Newseum in Washington D.C.,” reports Michael Balderston at TV Technology. The broadcaster is Hubbard Broadcasting. The story continues, “The gift will help support the Newseum’s mission to educate…

Alex Rocco, an Emmy Winner Who Most Memorably Played Moe Greene in ‘The Godfather,’ Has Died at 79

“Alex Rocco, who famously played mobster Moe Greene in ‘The Godfather,’ has died at age 79,” reports USA Today. “Daughter Jennifer Rocco posted the news on her Facebook page late Saturday night,” the report notes. Rocco died of “cancer, his…

Harrowing! Watch Surfer Mick Fanning Attacked by a Shark During Competiton. It Was Broadcast Live, on TV. Fortunately He Fought Off the Shark and Escaped Unharmed

To read a follow-up story about this, here’s one from CNN, if you click here.

Report: Apple Wants to Create New Streaming TV Channels From Studio Library TV Product. Competition for Broadcast Diginets?

As part of its upcoming streaming TV service Apple wants to create “a new free-of-charge channel concept created from, say, library stock,” reports our good friend, media reporter Claire Atkinson in the New York Post. The story adds, “Apple could…

TV Ad Spending Dipped In the Second Quarter, Report Says

“TV ad spending dropped 5% in the second quarter, according to new data from Standard Media Index [SMI], which reports on 80% of U.S. ad agency spending,” reports the Wall St. Journal. [Note: The WSJ is behind a pay wall and may…

New York Times Obtains Full Cosby Deposition and Runs this Headline: ‘Bill Cosby Deposition Reveals Calculated Pursuit of Young Women, Using Fame, Drugs and Deceit’

The New York Times reports today, Saturday, July 18, 2015, that it has obtained the full 1,000 page deposition given by Bill Cosby in a case that was settled in 2006. The Times said the deposition itself was never actually…

‘I Have My Doubts Bill Cosby is a Rapist,’ Writes a Well-Known New York Newspaper Columnist. Despite the Accounts of Dozens of Women, She Says that Cosby May Only Be Guilty of ‘High-Pressure Seductions’

A well-known New York Post columnist, in an essay she herself says might be “female heresy,’ writes that “I’m starting to think that Cosby’s ‘crimes’’ were not rapes, but high-pressure seductions.” The columnist, Andrea Peyser, has been writing her Post…