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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.
Ken Lowe, the chief executive and chairman of Scripps Networks, saw his pay jump by almost 47% in 2012, reports Deadline.com. Lowe’s raise came during a year when Scripps’ shares jumped almost 34%, the story notes. Scripps owns cable networks…
Monday night’s NCAA Men’s Division I Basketball Championship Game between Louisville and Michigan was a ratings winner for CBS, with the network reporting the game was up 18% from last year’s broadcast in metered markets. The game delivered a 14.3/23…
Mark Burnett and Roma Downey’s History miniseries "The Bible" is breaking sales records for home video, becoming the top-selling TV miniseries of all time on home-video release, according to The Hollywood Reporter. In its first week of release, the series…
An award-winning historical fantasy novel will be adapted into a seven-part miniseries by the BBC. The New York Times’ ArtsBeat reports that the production based on "Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell" is set to air in 2014. The show will…
Oxygen wants to make sure everyone realizes "The Glee Project" isn’t canceled, despite reports that it has been scrapped, reports TheWrap.com. Instead, the show is merely "on hold," with its fate depending on whether "Glee" is renewed, the story says….
A judge who is a fixture of daytime television has signed a multiyear deal to remain on the air for at least 21 seasons. The Hollywood Reporter’s Live Feed reports that "Judge Judy" star Judy Sheindlin signed with CBS Television…
Sometime today, Tuesday, April 9, 2013, you can drop by your local Ben & Jerry’s and pick up a free ice cream cone. Says the premium ice cream maker on its website, "Is there a better way to say thank you than free ice…
"Media company stocks rise as News Corp.’s Chase Carey, Univision’s Haim Saban threaten to pull the plug on over-the-air broadcasting because of court wins by Barry Diller’s Aereo," reports The Hollywood Reporter. The story continues: "Wall Street observers Monday said…
Annette Funicello, who starred on TV on “The Mickey Mouse Club” in the 1950s and later became a regular in the surf movies of the 1960s, has died. The New York Times reports that Funicello died today of complications from…
With three broadcast networks — Fox, CBS and the CW — already announcing early renewals for their better-performing programs, speculation is that NBC may be poised to make a similar move. “Among those rumored to get an early jump on…