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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 "So You Think You Can Dance" is making some changes after viewers criticized the show. The Hollywood Reporter’s Live Feed reports that the show is tweaking its procedures after two competitors were voted off the show at the top…
A high-profile politician who was forced out of office by a scandal and then went into television is planning a return to politics. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Eliot Spitzer, who resigned as New York governor amidst a prostitution scandal,…
CNBC is poised to tweak its prime-time programming. The New York Post reports that the financial news channel is working on a new roundtable show that might air in the 7 p.m. time slot now held by "The Kudlow Report.”…
ION has bought two dramas that first aired on USA Network. The Hollywood Reporter’s Live Feed reports that the cable channel will televise rebroadcasts of "Burn Notice" and "White Collar." The shows will join ION’s off-cable slate, which includes "Psych,"…
Television news got some good news in a just-released Gallup poll. Deadline.com reports that the latest survey about where Americans turn for news shows that more than half, 55%, of U.S. adults say they turn to television for coverage of…
Legendary broadcaster David Attenborough, 87, has been at it for 60 years, and he’s a long way from finished. Attenborough is known for nature documentaries including “Life on Earth” (1979), “The Living Planet” (1984) and “The Blue Planet” (2001). RadioTimes…
CBS Chief Executive Leslie Moonves sold $22.1 million of his company stock last week, prompting the question of whether the head man felt the stock had topped out, Deadline.com reports. But that’s not the case, according to a representative for…
"The last time Tribune Co. borrowed billions of dollars to finance a big acquisition, it didn’t work out very well," writes columnist Joe Cahill in one of TVWeek’s sibling publications, the well-respected Crain’s Chicago Business. Cahill continues, "I’m referring, of…
"Depending on one’s perspective, what the New Jersey-based television station WWOR is doing" — dropping its last remaining newscast — "is [either] irresponsible or innovative," writes Brian Stelter in The New Yorik Times. The story continues, "Last week, with no…
Study this picture carefully. It’s a commercial jetliner that, by mistake, missed the runway at San Francisco Airport on Nov. 22, 1968, and instead landed in the San Francisco Bay. There were over 100 people onboard, and no one was…