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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.
The year was 1934. Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig and Dizzy Dean were all baseball stars that year. The Otis Elevator Co. was already 84 years old in 1934. So when Muzak was founded in Fort Mill, South Carolina, that year,…
The rollercoaster ride continues for a familiar TV actor at ABC, which has kept him busy by greenlighting projects and then pulling the plug. Nellie Andreeva, writing on Deadline.com, reports that the network has given John Leguizamo yet another green…
A truce appears to have been declared in the dispute between Discovery Channel and one of its popular reality hosts. Deadline.com reports that the channel is welcoming back former “Man vs. Wild” host Bear Grylls. Grylls left the channel last…
Katie Couric has landed an exclusive interview with the widow of Penn State football coach Joe Paterno, marking the first interview she has given since the sex-abuse scandal involving former Penn State assistant Jerry Sandusky damaged her husband’s legacy, according…
ABC’s new reality diving competition "Splash" will feature an NBA Hall of Famer, reports the Los Angeles Times’ Show Tracker. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar will be a part of the series, along with extreme skier Rory Bushfield, the story reports. The show…
The man who sang those words in the iconic song "Wild Thing" in the 1960s has died at 71, the BBC reports. Reg Presley was the lead singer of the seminal garage rock band the Troggs. Presley, who founded the group…
John Malone’s Liberty Global is in discussions with Virgin Media for a deal to expand to Europe, a move that would challenge fellow billionaire Rupert Murdoch and his British Sky Broadcasting Group, reports Bloomberg. Virgin Media, a U.K. cable-television provider…
Geraldo Rivera, who has been making noise about running for political office in New Jersey, will lose his job at Fox News Channel as soon as he decides to run, reports The New York Times’ Media Decoder. Rivera, 69, could…
This year’s Super Bowl — already dubbed the Blackout Bowl for the 34-minute delay due to a power outage — was the third-most-watched U.S. TV show ever. It was watched by 108.41 million viewers, only superseded by last year’s Super…