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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.

ESPN Loosens Its Grip on Key TV Sports Properties

ESPN revealed today at its upfront presentation in New York that it will share a pair of major sports properties with ABC. Variety reports that the cable channel will make available both the annual ESPY Awards and an NFL wild…

USA Orders Drama Series

USA Network has placed a series order for a  drama that was the cable channel’s last undecided pilot from its 2014-2015 slate. Writing on the Deadline.com website, Nellie Andreeva reports that the cable channel gave a 13-episode order to “Queen…

ABC Unveils 2015-2016 Prime-Time Schedule — Here’s the Schedule, Along With Full Details on All the New Shows

ABC has released its prime-time schedule for the 2015-2016 TV season, with new shows “The Catch,” “Dr. Ken,” “The Family,” “The Muppets,” “Of Kings and Prophets,” “OIL,” “Quantico,” “The Real O’Neals,” “Uncle Buck” and “Wicked City” joining the lineup. The…

Why NBC Pulled ‘SNL’ Clip From Facebook

NBC deleted a Facebook post Monday, saying the posting was an accident, after the network learned that the post failed to conform to the social media site’s guidelines, Adweek reports. The problem with the post, which mainly consists of a…

Turner Shakes Up Senior Management Team

Turner Broadcasting System has reorganized its senior management team and made significant changes to the reporting structure for top executives. Among the key changes, Doug Shapiro, currently Senior Vice President, International and Corporate Strategy for Time Warner Inc., Turner’s parent…

ESPN Adds Two Hours of Live ‘SportsCenter’ in Daypart Overhaul

ESPN announced today that it will launch two hours of live “SportsCenter” programming as part of its morning lineup, with the new “SportsCenter AM” coming in February. The program will air from 7-9 a.m. ET. ESPN revealed the programming move…

Verizon to Buy AOL for $4.4 Billion

Verizon Communications announced today that it will buy AOL Inc. for $4.4 billion, in a move Reuters reports will turn the country’s No. 1 wireless carrier into a top provider of video and other content for the Web and mobile…

Univision Upfront Preview: We’re the Place to Reach Billennials. Plus This Upfront Event Will Also Feature an Interview With Bill Clinton

By Mike Reynolds — Special to TVWeek When Univision Communications Inc. executives take the stage at the the U.S. Spanish-language media leader’s upfront today, Tuesday, May 12, 2015, there will be plenty of emphasis placed on scale, unduplicated audience, commercial…

Ed Erhardt Broadens Role With New Responsibilities at ESPN; Justin Connolly Named to Run Affiliate Sales and Marketing at Disney and ESPN

“Ed Erhardt, now President, Global Sales & Marketing, will broaden his role to include oversight of consumer marketing, research and advertising sales business operations,” the sports network has announced. The announcement continues, “In addition to leading an award-winning sales team that…

ABC Unveils 2015-16 Prime-Time Schedule

Press release from ABC, May 12, 2015: ABC continues its commitment to great storytelling with the announcement of its 2015-16 slate of programming, including the addition of 10 new series. Paul Lee, president, ABC Entertainment Group, will unveil the network’s…