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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.

News Corp. Announces Global Ad Exchange

News Corp. today announced plans to launch a global programmatic advertising exchange that will allow marketers to "collectively leverage the company’s leading online and mobile products and rich first-party data for programmatic buying and real-time bidding," the company said in…

James Franco Invokes Classic Works of Art to Announce His New TV Series

Actor, director and writer James Franco took the wraps off plans for a new TV series, invoking the image of a famous artist, Vincent van Gogh, in an Instagram message Tuesday night teasing the program, Entertainment Weekly reports. Franco uploaded…

NBC News to Rebroadcast Historic ‘Meet the Press’ Program From 1963

NBC will mark the anniversary of a historic event by rebroadcasting its Aug. 25, 1963, episode of "Meet the Press" this Sunday, Deadline.com reports. The telecast featured an interview with Martin Luther King conducted 50 years ago — three days…

Fox News Channel Executive Fired for ‘Financial Irregularities’

A top executive at the Fox News Channel has been fired by Roger Ailes for what the news company called “issues relating to financial irregularities, as well as for multiple, material and significant breaches of his employment contract," reports Bill…

‘Dancing with the Stars’ Regular Will Sit Out Next Season

ABC’s "Dancing with the Stars" is losing one of its regular performers for a season. EW.com’s Inside TV reports that professional ballroom dancer Kym Johnson will miss the 17th season of the dance competition. The dancer will return for the…

Report: Authorities Are Suspicious About Death of ‘That ’70s Show’ Actress

Both the Los Angeles County Coroner and the Los Angeles County Sheriff are conducting investigations into the cause of actress Lisa Robin Kelly’s death, reports TMZ.com. The story notes that the "L.A. County Coroner never got a call from the…

NBC Renews Freshman Show

NBC has made the first renewal of the season for a freshman unscripted summer series. Deadline.com reports that the network picked up the summer game show "Hollywood Game Night" for a second season. The show, hosted by Jane Lynch, will…

Emmy-Nominated TV and Film Director Dead at 95 — His Long String of Credits Included ‘Magnum Force,’ ‘Rawhide,’ ‘Gunsmoke,’ ‘The Harrad Experiment’

A prolific TV and film director who racked up a long string of credits in a career going back to the early 1950s has died, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Ted Post, who directed Clint Eastwood in the series "Rawhide"…

‘Breaking Bad’ Actor Heads to NBC Comedy Series

An NBC sitcom is bringing in an actor from the AMC drama "Breaking Bad." The Hollywood Reporter’s Live Feed reports that Jonathan Banks, who plays Mike Ehrmantraut on "Breaking Bad," will tackle a multi-episode arc in the fifth season of…

TBS Renews Three Shows

TBS has announced renewals for three series. Deadline.com reports that the cable channel picked up a second season of the Howie Mandel-produced hidden camera series "Deal With It," giving third-season orders to "Sullivan & Son" and "Men at Work." "Sullivan…