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.

Uh-Oh: A Lot of Folks Didn’t Want Their MTV. Thursday Night’s VMAs Lost More Than Half Its Audience Compared to the 2011 VMAs

"Somebody does not want their MTV," writes Dominic Patten at Deadline.com. Patten continues, "Despite being the top show on cable last night, the network’s Video Music Awards lost more than half its audience compared with the 2011 show, which drew…

Clint Eastwood Tells The Carmel Pine Cone Newspaper How It Came to Pass, Just Minutes Before He Appeared on Stage, That He Would Talk to an Empty Chair

Clint Eastwood is the former mayor of Carmel, Calif., and he spoke to that town’s newspaper this week — The Carmel Pine Cone (est. 1915) — about his unconventional address before the Republican National Convention on Aug. 30, 2012. Reports…

NBC Series That Has Been a Ratings Standout for the Network Sinks to Historic Low — So How Did NBC Win the Night?

An NBC series that has been one of the network’s few bright spots in the ratings in recent seasons sank to a historic low Thursday night, according to Nielsen overnights. TVbytheNumbers.com reports that “America’s Got Talent” fell to a 1.8…

Fox News Chief Roger Ailes May Seek Huge Pay Hike From News Corp.

News Corp. is reportedly in talks with Fox News chief Roger Ailes on a new multiyear deal, reports Gabriel Sherman at New York Magazine. A deal hasn’t yet been struck, although it’s thought that Ailes, 72, could ask for a…

Video: Tom Brokaw Gets Back to Work, Talks About the ‘Dumb Mistake’ That Sent Him to the Hospital

Tom Brokaw returned to the airwaves Thursday after a health scare that sent him to the hospital. It turned out to be, in his words, a “dumb mistake,” as he accidentally took some Ambien and found himself making “less sense…

Big 12 Expands Rights Deals With Fox, ESPN

The Big 12 Conference has signed deals with Fox Sports Media Group and ESPN that extend and broaden the college conference’s partnerships with both media groups. The two media companies will share broadcast and cable rights to Big 12 football,…

Thumbs Up! Academy Award Winners Martin Scorsese and Steven Zaillian (‘Schindler’s List’ Screenplay) to Executive Produce the Life Story of Roger Ebert

Oscar-winning director Martin Scorsese and Steven Zaillian, who won an Academy Award for writing the script for "Schindler’s List," are partnering to executive produce the story of Roger Ebert, who may be the most well-known movie critic in the U.S.,…