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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.
With CBS’s Sunday viewership measurement tweaked by its live coverage of the “March Madness” NCAA Men’s Division I Basketball Championship, the Tiffany Network cruised to an apparent easy win in the ratings. As for the other broadcast networks, it was…
Coverage of the “March Madness” NCAA Men’s Division I Basketball Tournament saw a surge in viewers over the weekend. CBS Communications Group announced that Turner Sports and CBS Sports coverage of Sunday’s regional finals was up 25% from a year…
A federal appeals court today issued a key ruling in the Aereo case, rejecting an appeal by television station owners of an earlier ruling that enabled the startup to stream local TV networks via its website and app, reports USA Today….
ABC News announced today that it has hired a veteran of CBS News as an anchor and chief national correspondent. ABC News chief Ben Sherwood made the announcement that the network hired Byron Pitts, The Huffington Post reports. Pitts is…
CBS basketball analyst Doug Gottlieb, described as the only non-African-American sitting on the network’s panel analyzing its Sweet 16 coverage, set off a Twitter firestorm over the weekend when he said he was there to offer "a white man’s perspective,"…
Lindsay Lohan’s recent plea agreement, designed to send the actress to rehab, now has a string attached. The actress added a stipulation to the deal she made in the case against her for reportedly lying to authorities, TMZ.com reports. Citing…
CBS is bringing aboard "Ferris Bueller’s Day Off" star Matthew Broderick to star in a new project. Deadline.com reports that Broderick will star in an untitled Tad Quill comedy pilot, marking a rare television role for the actor. The pilot,…
Christa Speck, one of the best-known Playboy Playmates of the 1960s, has died, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Speck, who was the wife of television producer Marty Krofft, died March 22 at her home in Los Angeles of natural causes….
An upcoming NBC drama about a cannibal has hired a famous chef as a “food consultant.” The New York Post reports that "Hannibal," based on the cannibal villain Hannibal Lecter, tapped Spanish chef Jose Andres for the job. The show…
A CBS News personality who has been with the network for three years announced on the air that she is leaving CBS. On "CBS This Morning," Rebecca Jarvis said she’s leaving the network, where she has anchored the Saturday edition…