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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.

Steve Wozniak on Humanity’s Grim Outlook: Computers Will ‘Get Rid of Humans’ — or Make Us Their Pets

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak isn’t feeling optimistic about the future of the human race, noting in a recent interview that computers will present a serious threat in the future, Venture Beat reports. Wozniak’s comments came during an interview with The…

A Star Is Born: Villanova’s ‘Sad Piccolo Girl’ Becomes the Toast of TV and the Internet — Here’s the Video

The breakout star of the first weekend of “March Madness” is not a basketball player, but a piccolo player. Roxanne Chalifoux, a member of the Villanova band, was caught crying as she played during Villanova’s 71-68 loss Saturday to North…

New Over-the-Top Video Service Goes Live — With the First Year Free

The latest arrival on the rapidly expanding over-the-top video landscape has just rolled out to the public, and the service, Vessel, is launching with a “first year free” offer, Multichannel News reports. The rollout follows an invitation-only beta trial for…

Rocker David Crosby Sends Jogger to Hospital in Traffic Collision

Authorities are saying that David Crosby, a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as part of the seminal bands the Byrds and Crosby, Stills and Nash, crashed into a jogger over the weekend, putting the man in…

Broadband Providers Head to Court to Quash Net Neutrality

Major U.S. broadband providers have taken their battle against Net neutrality to court. On the heels of new rules by the FCC announced earlier this month, the trade group the USTelecom Association, which represents AT&T, Verizon and a number of…

Esquire Network Greenlights ‘Real-Life Jerry Maguire’ Series

The Esquire Network announced a 10-part documentary series focusing on what the cable net describes as “real-life Jerry Maguire” sports agents. “The Agent” is set to premiere in July 2015. The show tracks four NFL agents: Jeff Guerriero, Peter Schaffer,…

Esquire Network Shows Them the Money, Greenlights ‘The Agent’

Press release, March 24, 2015: Behind every professional football player is an agent. Their clients make the plays on the field, but they run the game off the field. Esquire Network gives an inside look at the business behind America’s…

NFL Lifts Its TV Blackout Rule for the Upcoming 2015 Season

  “The NFL lifted the television blackout rule in place for the 2015 season, the league announced Monday at the NFL owners’ meetings in Arizona,” reports CBSSports.com. The story continues, “The Federal Communications Commission previously ceased backing the blackout rule,…

Watch, as Vin Diesel Reveals that He’s Named His New Baby After His Close Friend, the Late Paul Walker

Veteran TV and Film Actress Dies

An actress with a long list of television and film credits, perhaps best known to U.S. audiences for the Fox show “24,” has died. The Toronto Star reports that Canadian-born Alberta Watson died Saturday evening at a hospital in Toronto…