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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.
The National Football League returned to Sunday nights with an NBC preseason game between the Miami Dolphins and Dallas Cowboys, lifting the Peacock Network to an easy ratings win for the night, based on Nielsen overnights. TVbytheNumbers.com reports that NBC…
Time Warner Cable provided a ray of hope today to viewers affected by the company’s impasse with CBS, which has taken the broadcast network and CBS-owned cable networks off TWC’s systems. USA Today reports: "With a CBS programming blackout well…
Russia has launched a criminal case against an American rock band. CNN reports that Russia is incensed by an incident involving the band Bloodhound Gang in which one of the band members reportedly "stuffed the Russian flag into his pants,…
The 29th Annual Television Critics Association Awards took place over the weekend at the Beverly Hilton, where critics made their picks for the best programming in television today. They also honored the past, with "All in the Family’s" Norman Lear…
The last time the Turner Broadcasting System Inc. had a president was 2001. That was Steve Heyer, who left the company that year to go to Coca-Cola. Today, Aug. 5, 2013, Turner announced that David Levy will get the post….
Major League Baseball announced its penalty today in the closely watched Alex Rodriguez case in the Biogenesis performance enhancing drugs scandal, while revealing the names of 12 other players who have agreed with the league to 50-game suspensions, ESPN reports….
A longtime NBC News correspondent and anchor has died. Citing the network, TVNewser reports that John Palmer died after a "short, sudden illness." He was 77. "NBC Nightly News" anchor Lester Holt said Palmer was a "dear colleague and friend,"…
An actor who became a familiar face playing Native American characters — who also played a Klingon commander on the original "Star Trek" TV series and two of the show’s TV spinoffs — has died. The New York Times reports…
"Social media is still howling after last week’s perceived slight of eighth-grader Thomas Hurley III" during Kids Week on "Jeopardy!," reports CNN. The CNN story also asks whether it’s not the "saddest moment in ‘Jeopardy!’ history." As the article notes,…
Fox’s "American Idol" is close to a deal with one of its former judges for a return gig. EW.com’s Inside TV reports that the show is closing in on a pact that would bring superstar singer Jennifer Lopez back to…