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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 and Turner have "virtually sold out" of their television commercial inventory for the March Madness college basketball tournament, which starts March 19, reports B&C, citing sales executives for both companies. "We are extremely tight right now," John Bogusz, executive…
Disney Channel has ordered a new animated program. Deadline.com reports that the channel ordered "Star and the Forces of Evil" from recent California Institute of the Arts graduate Daron Nefcy. Nefcy, who graduated in 2009, recently worked on Disney Channel’s…
Justin Bieber was hospitalized after collapsing backstage during a London concert, according to media reports. TMZ.com reports that the singer felt woozy during the show, and stumbled backstage with four songs yet to perform, then collapsed. He was treated with…
Doctors are trying to figure out what’s going on with Kelly Osbourne’s health. Osbourne, 28, is undergoing more tests after being hospitalized after fainting on the set of E!’s "Fashion Police,” reports People.com. Osbourne tweeted a photo of her arm…
CNBC’s new prime-time entertainment block — CNBC Prime — received mixed ratings in its debut, reports TVNewser.com. The cable channel on Tuesday rolled out the CNBC Prime block’s first two shows, the antiques search "Treasure Detectives" and the car-flipping show…
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has "published a patent application from Apple that would allow customers to legally sell or loan used iTunes content to another person," reports TechSpot.com. The article continues, "The system would allow a user to…
"Cablevision Systems Corp. said Viacom Inc. threatened to impose a penalty of at least $1 billion on the cable operator unless it agreed to buy the rights to networks it didn’t want, according to a court filing," reports Bloomberg Businessweek. The…
One of the regular panelists on ABC’s longtime daytime hit "The View" is leaving the show, reports our friend Nellie Andreeva at Deadline.com. Writes Andreeva in an exclusive story, "After 16 and a half years on ‘The View,’ Joy Behar…
CNN didn’t waste any time getting its new daily political show ready to roll out. The Washington Post reports that the cable news channel has set a March 18 premiere date for “The Lead,” the new show to be headed…
Fox continues to see the ratings erode for its onetime juggernaut “American Idol,” with Wednesday’s installment dipping 5% from last week, based on Nielsen overnights for the key 18-49 demo. But with much of the programming on rival broadcast networks…