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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.
Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt declared that victory by YouTube over television has “already happened,” The Huffington Post reports. Schmidt, whose company owns YouTube, spoke during a presentation by Google to advertisers Wednesday in New York. “Schmidt said, ‘The future…
1972 was a big year for media, with the premiere of "The Waltons" on CBS and the debut of "The Godfather" in movie theaters. On top of that, according to the IRS, media mogul Sumner Redstone made a taxable gift…
Rapper Chris Kelly, who was half of the 1990s rap team Kris Kross, has died, reports ABC News. Kelly, 34, was pronounced dead Wednesday night at the Atlanta Medical Center, the story reports. Authorities were investigating the circumstances surrounding his…
Oprah Winfrey has remained out of the headlines lately — at least by Oprah standards — but she made a little news this week by landing an in-depth interview with NBA player Jason Collins, the Los Angeles Times’ Show Tracker…
The Elmo puppeteer who left "Sesame Street" after allegations surfaced that he had sexual relations with minors has received a Daytime Emmy nomination for his work on the show, reports The New York Times. The nod for Kevin Clash took…
Comedy Central’s "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" will be carrying on without Stewart this summer, with the channel announcing plans for his three-month hiatus. Guest host John Oliver, who has been working as a correspondent for the show, will…
An Oscar-winning actress has been tapped to star in HBO’s adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book "Olive Kitteridge," written by Elizabeth Strout, reports Mike Fleming Jr. on Deadline.com. Frances McDormand, who won an Oscar in 1997 for “Fargo,” will star…
Diane Sawyer’s ABC News special with Amanda Knox, the former exchange student who was accused of murdering her roommate in Italy, boosted sales of Knox’s memoir, "Waiting to Be Heard," according to The Hollywood Reporter’s Live Feed. The book is…
The Rolling Stones are finding that you can’t always get what you want, as they try to sell $600 tickets for the band’s "50 and Counting" tour that starts Friday in Los Angeles, reports Bloomberg. Pairs of $600 floor seats…
A movie star who became the highest-paid actress of 1947 only to turn her back on Hollywood after a brief career has died. The Los Angeles Times reports that Deanna Durbin, who walked away from Hollywood at age 26, died…