Chuck Ross

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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.

Fox’s All-Repeat Animation Lineup Ties CBS Atop Sunday Ratings

Sunday’s prime-time ratings weren’t much to shout about on the broadcast networks, based on Nielsen overnights for the key 18-49 demo. TVbytheNumbers.com reports that the best anyone was able to average for the four hours was a 1.2 rating, with…

21st Century Fox Realigns Television Syndication and Distribution Business

21st Century Fox today announced it has "realigned its television syndication and distribution unit Twentieth Television, formerly part of Fox Television Stations, under Twentieth Century Fox Television, the Company’s television production studio. Twentieth Television will continue to be led by President…

Fallen Star: Rapper and Onetime R&B Chart Topper, Winner of Many Grammys, Reports to Prison

A singer-songwriter, rapper, producer and actress who has been a huge star, topping the charts and raking in multiple Grammy Awards, reported to prison today. The Los Angeles Times reports that Lauryn Hill, formerly of the Fugees, began serving a…

Video: Perhaps the Only Footage Showing Asiana Plane in Landing Pattern, Hitting Short, Rising, Spinning Around and Crashing. Audio Captures Videographer’s Shock at Recording a Plane Crash

Turner Entertainment Networks Names Chief Strategy Officer

Turner Entertainment Networks, the division of Turner Broadcasting that includes TBS, TNT, Turner Classic Movies (TCM) and truTV, announced that it has promoted Jennifer Dorian to chief strategy officer. “Dorian, who most recently served as senior vice president of strategic…

‘Big Brother’ Houseguests in Hot Water

Three "Big Brother’ houseguests got in trouble after the CBS show’s live feed captured them uttering offensive statements, with the comments by the three cast members prompting reactions from their employers, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Contestant Spencer Clawson, 31,…

Oops: Starz Announces Hiring of Actor for High-Profile Role, Then Announces That the Announcement Was a Mistake

Starz found itself backpedaling after an erroneous announcement of the hiring of an actor for a high-profile role. The pay-cable channel said its digital division made a mistake when it tweeted that Sam Heughan had been cast as Jamie Fraser…

Scotland Yard Tracking Down Secret Rupert Murdoch Tape

Scotland Yard is on the case of a secret recording of News Corp. mogul Rupert Murdoch. The U.K. newspaper The Guardian reports that Scotland Yard detectives are hunting for the tape, which reportedly captures Murdoch admitting to Sun journalists that…

Adman Charles Saatchi, Who Was Shown in a Photo Grabbing His Wife by the Throat, Says He’s Divorcing Her for Not Defending Him Against Allegations of Abuse

Multimillionaire Charles Saatchi informed his wife, celebrity chef Nigella Lawson, that he’s divorcing her via a statement to the British newspaper the Daily Mail. In a statement to the newspaper Sunday, he told Lawson that he made the "heartbreaking" decision…

You Watch and Decide: YouTube Originally Banned Justin Timberlake’s New Music Video for Being Too Explicit. Now, It’s Back on YouTube

A racy new Justin Timberlake music video is running on YouTube (and can be seen below) after the website reportedly lifted a ban on it, according to Rolling Stone. The video for “Tunnel Vision” is labeled as “explicit” on YouTube. After…