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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.

At the Writers Guild Awards Last Weekend the Word of the Day May Have Been Self-deprecation

To read all about the recent Writers Guild Awards, please click here to read our eyewitness, TVWeek Open Mic blogger Hillary Atkin.

Video: Bill O’Reilly Defends Himself, On-Air, Against Charges Made by Mother Jones Magazine. O’Reilly Says ‘Mother Jones and the far left websites …couldn’t care less about the truth. They are in business to injure. This is a political hit job.’

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Meryl Streep, Who Has Won Three-Oscars, Finally Breaks Through to Become a First-Time Nominee For a….Kids Choice Award! It’s the 28th Annual Edition, and This Year It Will Be Remembered as the Awards that Did NOT Forget to Nominate ‘The Lego Movie’ as Favorite Animated Film. We Have All the Nominees…

Hot off the press, from our friends at Nickelodeon: At long last, three-time Oscar winner Meryl Streep [has been] nominated for a coveted Nickelodeon Kids Choice Award.  Other First-Time Nominees Iggy Azalea, Sam Smith, Angelina Jolie, 5 Seconds of Summer, Channing…

Complete List of Nominees for the 28th Annual Kids Choice Awards, to Be Cablecast on Nickelodeon on March 28, 2015

  Santa Monica, Calif. – (February 20, 2015) – Who will vie for the coveted blimp in a year marked by a slew of first-time celebrity nods?  Fans have voiced their favorites as Nickelodeon announces the nominations for the 28th Annual Kids’ Choice…

ABC Becomes First News App on Xbox One Gaming Platform

  ABC News has announced the launch of its app for Xbox One, becoming the first U.S. news application on the gaming console. “The ABC News app will offer immediate access to multiple simultaneous streams of live video as well…

Wanted: A Girl MacGyver

A search is under way for a “dashing female” who can follow in the footsteps of MacGyver, the brainy secret agent who used paper clips and other everyday items to repeatedly engineer his way out of jams in the 1980s…

TV Academy Makes Changes in Emmy Rules and Procedures

Bruce Rosenblum, Television Academy Chairman said in an announcement today that “As our growing membership creates and produces more content for ever-changing platforms, today’s changes in the rules and procedures are vital.  We’re sure that in coming years we will…

Bill O’Reilly Lashes Out After Magazine Claims He ‘Has His Own Brian Williams Problem’

Fox News host Bill O’Reilly called a magazine story accusing him of falsely characterizing his experiences as a war correspondent “a bunch of garbage,” the Los Angeles Times reports. The story in Mother Jones magazine ran under the headline “Bill…

This Is Wild! The Oakland Raiders and the San Diego Chargers Are Exploring the Idea of Having BOTH NFL Teams Moving to Los Angeles, and Playing in a Single New Stadium to Be Built in Carson. That’s in Addition to the St. Louis Rams, Which Are Still Pursuing Moving to the Inglewood Area of L.A., and a New Stadium That Would Be Built There

“The San Diego Chargers and Oakland Raiders, rivals on the field, are moving forward together on a plan to build a $1.7-billion NFL stadium in Carson that they will share,” reports the authoritative football reporter for the Los Angeles Times,…

Viacom Announces Restructuring; Report Says Job Cuts Are Expected

Viacom has announced a restructuring, reports our good friend Jon Lafayette at B&C. The story says that the “Viacom Music and Entertainment Group will report to Doug Herzog. It will consist of MTV, MTV2, Logo, VH1, Comedy Central and Spike….