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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 News has tapped former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice as a regular contributor, reports The New York Times’ Media Decoder. Rice will comment on national and international issues, the network said. She served under President George W. Bush from…
Nickelodeon has given a 20-episode order to "The Haunted Hathaways," which is described as "The Brady Bunch" with a supernatural element, reports Deadline.com. The show tracks a mom and her daughters who move to New Orleans, only to realize that…
The Los Angeles Dodgers are reportedly leaning toward switching from Fox Sports to Time Warner Cable in 2014, according to the Los Angeles Times’ Dodgers Now blog. The team’s current contract with Fox expires at the end of the 2013…
The first installment of Oprah Winfrey’s interview with former seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong was a ratings hit for Winfrey’s OWN cable network. The network announced that the program — part one of the two-part interview, with part…
NBC has found the leading lady for its upcoming “Dracula” series, Deadline.com reports. Starring opposite Jonathan Rhys Meyers will be Jessica de Gouw, an Australian actress perhaps best known in the U.S. for her appearance as The Huntress on CW’s…
A set of “Django Unchained” action figures appears to be going off the market, with the studio behind the movie, The Weinstein Co., announcing that it is pulling the figures from distribution, the Los Angeles Times reports. “Re-imagining the slave…
Fox’s “American Idol” lost viewers from night one to night two, based on Nielsen overnights. Thursday night’s two-hour installment delivered a 5.6 average rating in the key 18-49 demo, down from the 6.0 for Wednesday’s premiere, TVbytheNumbers.com reports. Still, “Idol”…
Sinclair Broadcast Group President and CEO David Smith is behind a new station group venture built around small-market stations, B&C reports. Playing a key role in managing the privately held enterprise will be Communications Corp. of America CEO Steve Pruett….
An HBO series is parting ways with one of the actresses on the show, who will be replaced and will have her scenes reshot, EW.com’s Inside TV reports. The actress is Rosemarie DeWitt, who is leaving the pay-cable channel’s series…
At least one person is hurt and mad as hell about what Lance Armstrong refused to tell Oprah Winfrey during Winfrey’s interview with Armstrong on Thursday night, Jan. 17, 2013. Betsy Andreu is the wife of Frankie Andreu, who used…