Chuck Ross

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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.

Stars Come Out for Tribute to Heroes — But the Focus Is on Everyday People Doing Extraordinary Things

An awards show that’s unlike the others took place Sunday at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, where Anderson Cooper hosted “CNN Heroes: An All-Star Tribute.” Click here to read TVWeek Open Mic blogger Hillary Atkin’s report on the celebrity-studded…

Report: Fox Buying Another Regional Sports Network

Fox is buying another regional sports network, Reuters reports. (Though we first saw this on Deadline.com, which credited Reuters for breaking this story.) Says Reuters, "News Corp. is expected to announce as early as this week that it will buy…

Will ‘The X Files’ Return to TV? Here’s What One of the Show’s Producers Says

"The X Files" executive producer Frank Spotnitz hinted in an interview with the fan site Den of Geek that the show could return to television. Asked whether the show could return to TV like "Star Trek" did with its different…

NBC Working on New Singing Competition Show, With Former Boy Band Member as Host

NBC, which is moving ahead with plans for a new singing competition series, has lined up a familiar music competition figure as host. Nick Lachey, who rose to fame as a member of the boy band 98 Degrees, will host…

’60 Minutes’/Vanity Fair Poll Names Greatest Sitcom of All Time (Poll Also Reveals the Funniest Letter of the Alphabet, Among Other Things)

A comedy series from TV’s early days battled it out with one from not all that long ago for the title of greatest sitcom of all time in a new poll by “60 Minutes” and Vanity Fair, with the not-so-old…

Spike Renews Two Series

Two of Spike TV’s more macho shows have received orders for additional seasons from the cable channel, according to The Hollywood Reporter. "Ink Master" will return for a third season, and "Tattoo Nightmares" will be back for season two, the…

Time Warner Cable CEO Threatens to Drop Networks

Time Warner Cable Chief Executive Officer Glenn Britt said his company — the nation’s second-largest cable company — may drop low-rated networks when their contracts run out, Bloomberg reports. The move would be an effort to counter increasing prices for…

Howard Stern Re-Ups With ‘America’s Got Talent’

Radio superstar Howard Stern has agreed to appear for a second season on NBC’s "America’s Got Talent," reports Newsday. Stern informed listeners to his radio show this morning that he will be returning to "AGT" in part because he enjoyed…

NBC Coasts to Ratings Win With Football Broadcast

Another strong outing by NBC’s "Sunday Night Football," which featured NFC rivals the Philadelphia Eagles and the Dallas Cowboys, made the network the big winner in the Sunday prime-time ratings, based on Nielsen overnights. TVbytheNumbers.com reports that NBC averaged a…

The Daily, News Corp.’s Ambitious Plan to Create a Newspaper for Tablets, to Shut Down Dec. 15

By Nate IvesAdvertising Age News Corp. said on Monday that it is shutting down The Daily, its ambitious but expensive attempt to create an iPad newspaper, on Dec. 15. Following layoffs of a third of its staff this summer, The…