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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.
Showtime’s "Homeland" has a plan in place that addresses what to do with the series if real-world events come too close to the themes being handled in the show, reports the New York Post, citing Showtime executive David Nevins.The show’s…
Yahoo’s interim chief executive officer is leaving the company after its board passed him over for the permanent top job, instead hiring former Google executive Marissa Mayer, reports Bloomberg. Ross Levinsohn took on the interim role in May when ex-CEO…
Segment producers for "Attack of the Show" have filed a class-action suit against the G4 Network and owner NBCUniversal Media over pay, classification and what they claim are unfair businesses practices, reports Deadline.com. The lawsuit was filed by Sean Jordan,…
Oprah Winfrey’s sputtering OWN cable network “remains on track” to reach profitability during the second half of 2013, Discovery CEO David Zaslav said today, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Discovery is a partner in OWN. The company previously projected that…
CBS’s Leslie Moonves has waded into the debate over how NBCUniversal is covering the London Olympics, after a chorus of viewer complaints arose — especially online — over NBC’s strategy of tape-delaying of much of the coverage, B&C reports. Moonves…
A “daytime drama” is playing out at CBS’s top-rated daytime soap opera, where the executive producer and head writer has been ousted, Soap Central reports. “The Young and the Restless” is giving the boot to Maria Arena Bell and bringing…
A crooner who appeared in movie musicals during a career spanning more than half a century has died, the Associated Press reports. Tony Martin, who had hit records with “I Get Ideas,” ‘’To Each His Own,” ‘’Begin the Beguine” and…
CBS’s crime procedural "NCIS: Los Angeles" will feature the real-life mothers of four of the show’s cast members in a special Mother’s Day episode, TVLine.com reports. The moms of Chris O’Donnell, Daniela Ruah, Eric Christian Olsen and LL Cool J…
NBC announced a key executive move, naming a new EVP of alternative programming for NBC Entertainment, Deadline.com reports. The job is being filled by promoting Meredith Ahr. Ahr, who has been VP of alternative programming and development since 2007, will…
NBC’s Olympics coverage dominated the prime-time ratings Sunday, according to Nielsen overnights, with a new CBS show hit especially hard as it aired its time-period premiere against the juggernaut sports coverage from London. TVbytheNumbers.com reports that CBS’s new dating show…