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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.

Two Reporters Well-Known to Those in the TV Business Are Leaving The New York Times: TV Reporter Bill Carter and Advertising Reporter Stuart Elliott Take Buyouts. Both Are 20 Year-plus Vets of the Paper

Bill Carter and Stuart Elliott, who cover the TV business and Madison Ave., respectively, for The New York Times, are both leaving the paper, taking buyouts as the paper seeks to reduce its staff by 100 positions. According to a…

Cosmo and CoverGirl Paying $2 Million Total to Sponsor New Year’s Eve in Times Square, Hoping Their Signage Will Be Seen on TV Coverage

“A magazine and one of its biggest advertisers will sing ‘Auld Lang Syne’ together, spending New Year’s Eve in Times Square in a sponsorship deal that speaks to the increasing importance of live events for marketers,” reports our good friend…

NBC’s ‘Peter Pan Live!’ Ratings Down Significantly From Last Year’s ‘Sound of Music Live!’

Last night’s three-hour live musical production of “Peter Pan” on NBC delivered viewer numbers well below those for the network’s live version of “The Sound of Music” a year ago. Thursday night’s broadcast delivered “a 2.3 adults 18-49 rating, down…

‘Peter Pan Live’ Was ‘Oddly Awful.’ What NBC Needs to Do to Have These Musical Spectaculars Grow Up

So opines TVWeek Open Mic blogger Chuck Ross, in an insightful essay that you can read if you please click on this sentence.

‘Peter Pan Live’ Was ‘Oddly Awful.’ What NBC Needs to Do to Have These Musical Spectaculars Grow Up

TV Critic Gail Pennington of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch nailed it when she wrote of last night’s “Peter Pan Live” on NBC, “Christopher Walken, whose casting seemed a stroke of genius, was oddly awful as Captain Hook. At points, he…

It’s the Headline You Have Feared All Your Life, and Our Non-TV Story of the Day: About 100 Brains Missing From the University of Texas

About 100 brains are missing from a collection at the University of Texas at Austin, CBS News and the Associated Press report. The story reports: “It remains unclear who took the brains preserved in jars of formaldehyde and whether this…

Lawsuit Filed Against Bill Cosby: Woman, Now 55, Alleges That Cosby Sexually Assaulted Her When She Was 15

“A 55-year-old woman sued comedian Bill Cosby on Tuesday in Los Angeles Superior Court claiming sexual battery and infliction of emotional distress for allegedly molesting her in a bedroom at the Playboy Mansion when she was 15 years old,” NBC…

Wow: Reports Say North Korea May Be Behind Cyber Attacks on Sony Because of Upcoming Seth Rogen Comedy — FBI Warns Other Businesses of ‘Destructive’ Malware in Wake of Sony Attack

“Hackers who knocked Sony Pictures Entertainment’s computer systems offline last week used tools very similar to those used last year to attack South Korean television stations and ATMs, people briefed on the investigation said,” reports The Wall Street Journal. [NOTE:…

Bill Cosby Resigns From Temple University Board of Trustees, a Position He’s Held for 32 Years

“Under fire from at least 20 women who have accused him of sexual assault, Bill Cosby resigned Monday from Temple University’s board of trustees, a seat he had held since 1982,” reports the Philadelphia Inquirer. Temple University is located in…

PromaxBDA Names New President/CEO

PromaxBDA, the self-described “global community of professionals passionately engaged in the marketing and promotion of television and video content,” has a new president/CEO, report our good friends at TVNewsCheck. According to the story, the new president and CEO is “veteran…