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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.

Former Power Rangers Star Arrested: Suspected of Killing His Roommate with a Sword

“A former star of the Power Rangers TV series has been arrested on suspicion of fatally stabbing his roommate with a sword,” reports the Associated Press. The story continues, “Los Angeles County Sheriff’s officials said 36-year-old Ricardo Medina was jailed…

Here Are the Top Five Super Bowl Ads, as Ranked by the Annual USA Today Ad Meter Survey.You Can Watch Them Now

1) Budweiser -Lost Dog 2) Always-Like a Girl 3) Fiat-Blue Pill 4) Microsoft –Braylon 5 Doritos –Middle Seat

Here Are the Super Bowl Commercials Ranked 6 – 10 by the Annual USA Today Ad Meter Survey. Watch Them Now

6.) Dodge – Wisdom 7) Toyota—My Bold Dad 8) Coca Cola—Make It Happy 9) Nissan—With Dad 10) McDonald’s—Pay With Lovin’

Reports Say Whitney Houston’s Daughter, Bobbi Kristina, 21, is Still Unresponsive. Reports Add that She Is on a Ventilator after Being Found Face Down in Her Bathtub, Not Breathing, on Saturday

“Whitney Houston’s daughter Bobbi Kristina has ‘significantly diminished’ brain function and doctors have told her family it does not look good … this according to sources connected with the family,” reports the website TMZ. The TMZ story adds, “She is…

ABC Orders Four Drama Pilots

ABC has ordered four drama pilots, reports Variety. They are “Boom,” “The Adversaries,” “The Advocate” and “Kingmakers” “ ‘The Advocate,’ comes from Vendetta Productions in association with Warner Bros. Television and is being written and executive produced by [Straight Outta Compton writer Sheldon…

‘Supergirl’ Finds Her Jimmy Olsen

The new CBS project “Supergirl” has cast one of its key characters. Set to co-star as James Olsen — loosely based on the longtime Superman character cub reporter Jimmy Olsen — is Mehcad Brooks of “Necessary Roughness” and “True Blood,”…

FCC Redefines Broadband

Calling the current standard outdated, the Federal Communications Commission has changed the definition of broadband. PC Magazine reports that the agency on Thursday raised the standard from 4 Mbps downloading to 25 Mbps. “In 2010, the commission ruled that speeds…

Cablevision Takes Verizon to Court in Skirmish Over WiFi

Cablevision Systems has filed a lawsuit against Verizon Communications in a battle over providing WiFi to consumers. Reuters reports that the suit, filed Thursday, [Jan. 29, 2015] accuses Verizon of false advertising with TV, radio and Internet messages that claim…

Confronting the Unimaginable: “Night Will Fall” Airs on HBO

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Elie Wiesel wrote in his memoir about the German death camps, “For the survivor who chooses to testify, it is clear: his duty is to bear witness for the dead and for the living. He has…

One of the Stars of ‘Breaking Bad’ Joins CBS Drama Spinoff

CBS is planning a spinoff to its long-running hit police-procedural  “Criminal Minds’ and is bringing aboard Anna Gunn from AMC’s “Breaking Bad,” Variety reports. “Gunn [who played Skyler White on ‘Breaking Bad’] will co-star opposite Gary Sinise as the female…