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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.

AMC Networks to Buy Massive Broadband Company for $1 Billion

AMC Networks Inc. said it will pay about $1.04 billion for a broadband provider in an effort to gain greater control over global distribution of the company’s programming. Reuters reports that AMC will buy Chellomedia, the international content division of…

TV Show Boosts Tourism for East Coast Town

A village on the East Coast with a famous name is seeing a bump in tourism attributed to a new hit television series. EW.com’s Inside TV reports that the tourism business is booming in the village of Sleepy Hollow, N.Y….

CBS Readying Reboot of Hit Series That Ran for Eight Seasons on Another Broadcast Network

A series that ran on broadcast TV for eight seasons, racking up 178 episodes, is in the works as a reboot at CBS, reports Joe Adalian in New York Magazine. The series is the supernatural WB comedy-drama "Charmed," which aired…

Singer Chris Brown Arrested, Accused of Felony Assault

Singer Chris Brown was arrested after allegedly attacking a man outside the W Hotel in Washington D.C., after Brown reportedly became enraged that the victim had photobombed a picture, reports TMZ.com. Brown was about to take a photo with two…

Netflix in Talks for a Third Season of ‘House of Cards’

Netflix chief content officer Ted Sarandos says the online streaming company is in talks about a third season of "House of Cards," Deadline.com reports. "Our intent is that the show keep going for sure,” he said. Sarandos was delivering the…

Stars of Hit Reality Show to Release Christmas Album

The cast members of a wildly popular reality show are putting out a Christmas album. The Hollywood Reporter’s Live Feed reports that the Robertsons, the Louisiana family featured on A&E’s "Duck Dynasty," will release an album including standards along with…

Critics Be Damned: Fox Ups Order for Comedy Series

A comedy series that is reviled by critics has received a full-season order from Fox. The Los Angeles Times’ Show Tracker reports that the network added nine episodes to its order for "Dads," bringing the Seth MacFarlane series to 22…

Time Warner Cable, Charter and DirecTV May Create Their Own Aereo-Type Service to Avoid Paying Retrans Fees

Time Warner Cable, Charter Communications and DirecTV are examining a move that would take a page from Aereo by creating their own broadcast-TV streaming service as a way to avoid paying billions in retransmission fees, reports Bloomberg. Retransmission fees are…

Marcia Wallace, an Actress Who Entertained Generations of TV Viewers Over the Past 40 Years, Dies at Age 70

Marcia Wallace, 70, who provided the Emmy Award-winning voice of schoolteacher Edna Krabappel on the long-running animated series "The Simpsons," has died, reports The New York Times. http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/people/2013/10/26/the-simpsons-marcia-wallace-dies/3245593/ Wallace is also known for her role as Carol Kester, the receptionist…

Who Knew? Very Young Kids (2-7 Years Old) Spend ‘Billions of Minutes’ Watching TV Shows on … iPads

"Noting that tablet computers like the iPad are increasingly the ‘first screen’ for pre-school-age viewers, Disney executives said they would make the first nine episodes of a prominent new series available on mobile devices first. The series, ‘Sheriff Callie’s Wild…