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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.
As viewers flocked to their TV sets yesterday to watch the horror in Boston, it soon became clear, as it often does in the live coverage of these kinds of tragic events, that real information is hard to come by. Writes…
Jon Keller, the Emmy-winning political commentator for CBS’s Boston affiliate, WBZ-TV, insists that the bombs that exploded Monday during the Boston marathon will not terrorize his fellow Bostonians. In a commentary that you can read in its entirety or listen to…
CNN is reporting that a pair of explosions went off this afternoon near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, reportedly leaving at least two people dead. Boston police gave an update on the casualties around 4 p.m. ET, saying…
In a move that could change relationships between consumers and their data providers, Dish Network is making a high-stakes bid for Sprint Nextel, The New York Times reports. “Smartphones, tablets and computers all pull data from the Internet, but people…
A visit by young and often unpredictable pop superstar Justin Bieber to the home of Holocaust victim Anne Frank had some observers scratching their heads, comedians reeling off one-liners and many of Bieber’s fans asking, “Who’s Anne Frank?,” Rolling Stone…
Comedy Central announced that it has ordered its first dramatic comedy series. The cable network ordered HBO’s digital series “Brody Stevens: Enjoy It!,” it was announced by Kent Alterman, president of content development and original programming. Comedy Central will expand…
NBC sportscaster Bob Costas lashed out at CBS during an appearance on “The Dan Patrick Show,” ripping into the network for failing to acknowledge "Augusta’s history of racism and sexism" during its Masters coverage, reports Deadspin. "What no CBS commentator…
Moving a series to Saturday night is usually a bad sign for the series, but AMC’s latest move appears to be a different story. The cable channel made the decision to shift "Hell on Wheels" in the hopes of building…
[Updated on 4-15-13 at 9:45 a.m. PT to reflect that this story was first reported by Brian Stelter of The New York Times, not The Hollywood Reporter.] CNN Worldwide President Jeff Zucker has poached one of Katie Couric’s executive producers,…
By Chuck Ross, TVWeek One of the longtime jokes about The New York Times is that by the time it pinpoints something as a trend, the trend is practically mainstream. Case in point: Today’s (April 15, 2013) essay in the print and online editions…