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.

Time Warner Cable After the Comcast Merger Flop: Business Is Good

How is Time Warner Cable doing now that the drama of the failed merger with Comcast is over? Based on the company’s first-quarter earnings report, business appears to be good. Variety reports that TWC “registered solid video and broadband subscriber…

A&E Network to Premiere Original Scripted Drama Series ‘Damien’ Based on Twentieth Century Fox’s Classic Horror Film ‘The Omen’

Press release, April 29, 2015: A&E Network will premiere the new original scripted drama series, “Damien.” The hour-long drama from Fox 21 Television Studios and executive producer Glen Mazzara is a follow-up to the classic horror film, The Omen. Currently…

HBO Sports Is the Fight Fan’s Destination for Mayweather vs. Pacquiao

Press release from HBO Sports, April 30, 2015: HBO Sports is the fight fan’s destination for Mayweather vs. Pacquiao fight week news and information, providing viewers with an in-depth look across television, digital and social platforms at the blockbuster welterweight…

All-New Competition Series ‘Home Free’ Breaks Ground Wednesday, July 22, on Fox

Press release from Fox, April 29, 2015: FOX has ordered HOME FREE, a new competition series that will feature never-before-seen twists and plenty of surprises, as couples vie to win their dream home. From Relativity Television and executive producer Tom…

ABC Cancels Series

“‘We can officially tell our fans that this will be the end of the story,’ executive producer Sunil Nayar” tells Entertainment Weekly. In a scoop, EW’s Natalie Abrams reports that ABC’s “Revenge” “will end its run after four seasons.” The…

NBC Pulls a Netflix: Network Is Going to Release the Complete Season of a Series on One Day

“NBC is taking a page out of Netflix’s playbook, adopting the all-at-once model for one of its new summer series,” reports The Hollywood Reporter’s Live Feed blog. “The same night of [the] ‘Aquarius’ two-hour premiere [on May 28th], all 13…

David Letterman, on Leaving ‘Late Show’: ‘I’ll Miss It, Desperately’

David Letterman, who is retiring from his “Late Show” chair May 20, admits in a new interview with The New York Times‘ Dave Itzkoff that he has some trepidation about parting ways with late-night TV. “I’m awash in melancholia,” Letterman…

PBS Announces Its First New American Drama in More Than a Decade — All-Star Cast Includes Josh Radnor, Mary Elizabeth Winstead and AnnaSophia Robb

PBS has announced an all-star lineup — both in front of and behind the cameras — for its new Civil War drama. The casting announcement for “Mercy Street” includes Josh Radnor, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Donna Murphy, AnnaSophia Robb, Gary Cole,…

New PBS American Drama ‘Mercy Street’ to Star Josh Radnor, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Gary Cole, Peter Gerety and Norbert Leo Butz

Press release from PBS, April 29, 2015: Today, PBS announced that an award-winning cast and acclaimed television directors Roxann Dawson and Jeremy Webb will join its new Civil War-based drama, officially named MERCY STREET. The series is executive produced by…

Coming to Chicago Next Week: An Industry Trade Show Focusing on Both the Internet and Television That’s Been Rebooted for the 21st Century. The Goal Is That It Becomes One of the Destination Events for the Digital Economy

By Chuck Ross Last spring, when the folks at the NCTA were doing their debrief about the just concluded Cable Show in Los Angeles, NCTA President Michael Powell had an epiphany: They needed to reimagine the Cable Show because the…