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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.
Charter Communications has refused to air advertisements from a company that wants to run on a number of cable channels, the Associated Press reports. The company, Antennas Direct, says the refusal is an example of the cable industry’s growing worries…
ABC has put out a promotional spot to tell viewers that they can save the sitcom “Happy Endings” after the show was moved to Fridays, reports New York Magazine. Generally, moves to Friday are "signs of an underperforming series being…
Statistics just released by the Motion Picture Association of America confirm which country is the second-largest box office territory in the world, after the United States. China has moved into the No. 2 spot, replacing Japan, the U.K.’s Guardian reports….
Mamie Gummer, the star of the canceled CW drama series "Emily Owens MD," has been cast in a CBS drama project with Rainn Wilson of "The Office," reports Deadline.com. The drama pilot is "Backstrom," written by "Bones" creator Hart Hanson….
An actress from CBS’s "How I Met Your Mother" will replace a cast member on an ABC comedy who has left the project, The Hollywood Reporter’s Live Feed reports. Ashley Williams is taking over for Majandra Delfino in the pilot…
Showtime is buying a project from Will Ferrell’s Gary Sanchez Productions and "Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters" director Tommy Wirkola, reports Deadline.com. The half-hour project, which is currently untitled, is a dark comedy based on a Norwegian series called "Hellfjord,"…
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski is leaving the agency and will announce his departure today, Bloomberg reports. The departure of Genachowski, a Democrat, means there will be two vacancies on the five-member U.S. agency that oversees cable, broadcast and…
"HBO could widen access to its HBO Go online streaming service by teaming up with broadband Internet providers for customers who do not subscribe to a cable TV service, HBO Chief Executive Richard Plepler said," Reuters reports. The story continues,…
The Lifetime cable channel scored a court victory today on an emergency appeal, clearing the way for its television movie “Romeo Killer: The Christopher Porco Story” to air as planned Saturday, according to The Hollywood Reporter’s Hollywood, Esq. The decision…
Fox’s “American Idol” continued to slip in the ratings Wednesday night, based on Nielsen overnights, but it still had enough drawing power to lift Fox to a comfortable win for the night. Meanwhile, TVbytheNumbers.com reports that a couple of ABC…