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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.
CBS has just announced the syndication and streaming plans for its acclaimed drama "The Good Wife,’ and if you can guess its cable partner in this deal you’re smarter than any of us here at TVWeek. Writes our friend Nellie…
Magazine publisher Conde Nast hopes to leverage the brand recognition of its big-name titles — which have been dealing with dwindling income — through a series of Web video channels. USA Today reports that the publisher launched the new channels…
NBC is taking a look at a comedy produced by Will Ferrell and Adam McKay’s Gary Sanchez Productions, with former "Private Practice" star Kate Walsh in the lead, reports Deadline.com. The network is considering giving a pilot order to the…
Steve Brill, the founder of Court TV, tells the journalism organization ProPublica that he deserves "to do community service. I am the person who brought Nancy Grace to television." Brill, asked about his nose for hiring inexperienced people who end…
After being placed on indefinite medical leave from CBS’s "Blue Bloods" due to her struggles with celiac disease, actress Jennifer Esposito may star in a reality show on E!, reports Deadline.com. Esposito is filming a pilot for the network, which…
The funeral for one of television’s most memorable characters, the conniving oilman J.R. Ewing, brought "Dallas" its best overall audience of its second season on TNT, reports Bill Carter in The New York Times’ Media Decoder. The episode drew 3.6…
Charles and David Koch, two of the world’s wealthiest men and funders of conservative and libertarian causes, are interested in buying the Los Angeles Times and other Tribune newspapers, reports Reuters. The Koch brothers aren’t interested in Tribune’s non-newspaper assets,…
At a hearing on Tuesday, March 12, 2013, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Michael Johnson tossed the unfair business practices claim of "Storage Wars" star David Hester, reports The Hollywood Reporter, adding, "The judge also demanded that Hester’s claim of wrongful termination be…
"Hostess Brands, the now bankrupt owner of the cream-filled confections, agreed on Tuesday to sell the snacks — along with Ho Hos, Sno Balls and Dolly Madison Zingers — to two investment firms with a shared history of corporate turnarounds,"…
CBS and NBC both suffered an indignity in the ratings for Monday night. Based on Nielsen overnights, both broadcast networks saw shows sink to season lows in the key 18-49 demo. TVbytheNumbers.com reports that CBS’s “Rules of Engagement” dipped to…