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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.
Here are the key roles that NBCU announced today for its ad sales team: • Dan Lovinger Promoted to EVP, Cable Ad Sales, NBCUniversal • Mark Miller Promoted to EVP, Ad Sales, NBCUniversal News Group• Peter Naylor Named EVP, Ad…
Actress Lisa Whelchel, who’s currently competing on CBS’s "Survivor," has the West Nile virus, reports KHOU-TV in Houston. Whelchel is best known as Blair on NBC’s 1980s sitcom "The Facts of Life." The actress reported the news herself on Facebook…
[Note: Story revised at 4 p.m., PT, on Nov 15, 2012 to add comments and references in the Advertising Age version of this story.] PepsiCo’s Frito-Lay is putting some more pop in its Cracker Jacks, reports Advertising Age, continuing, "A new line…
NBC’s ratings resurgence this season has taken place in spite of — and not because of — one of its traditional strengths: comedy. The freshman sitcom “Go On” is off to an OK start, but in general the network that…
News Corp. is closing in on a deal that will put the media company in business with the New York Yankees, The New York Times’ Media Decoder reports. The company is set to buy a stake in the New York-based…
Here’s a good triva question: What retailer in the country racks up the highest amount of sales per square foot of its stores? The answer is Apple, whose 390 stores "remain the gold standard of retail," reports the New York…
A producer of a Bravo reality series is suing his longtime assistant, alleging she broke confidentiality and non-disclosure agreements by writing a tell-all book, reports Deadline.com. Jeff Lewis, a producer of the series "Flipping Out," and his production company filed…
Just one day after the news broke that Jim Bell was leaving NBC’s morning show “Today” to work on the network’s Olympics coverage, the network tapped senior broadcast producer Don Nash to executive produce the program, TVNewser.com reports. Nash will…
Does anyone not like Guy Fieri’s work as host of the popular Food Network series "Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives"? Unfortunately, Fieri’s latest project doesn’t look like it’s going to be a hit. Fieri has opened a restaurant, and the latest…
This deal seems to have all its bucks behind the scenes: Academy Award winners will executive produce and write it, and it’s based on a Pulitzer Prize-winning book. Oscar-winning director and producer Barry Levinson ("Rain Man") will executive produce the new…