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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.
One of the first writers for "Saturday Night Live," who helped create the show’s Coneheads, has died, reports The New York Times. Tom Davis was 59. Davis’ cause of death was throat and neck cancer. Referring to death in the…
Aaron Sorkin’s HBO drama "The Newsroom" has replaced many of the show’s writers for the second season, reports The Daily. Most of the writers on the show, which is about a Keith Olbermann-type news host, have been fired, according to…
MSNBC has taken issue with a comment made on Fox News about MSNBC host Al Sharpton, TVNewser.com reports. The comment occurred during Sean Hannity’s Fox News interview with accused Trayvon Martin shooter George Zimmerman. According to the story, Hannity asked…
Three U.S. senators will have guest-starring roles in an episode of "Parks and Recreation" this fall, reports The New York Times’ Arts Beat. The comedy, which stars Amy Poehler as an Indiana government employee who gets elected to Pawnee’s city…
DirecTV’s 20 million subscribers will again have access to Viacom’s 17 channels after the satellite company and the cable programmer settled their dispute, USA Today reports. DirecTV said in a news release that Viacom “has returned all affected networks,” according…
Time Warner Cable and Hearst Television have agreed to a retransmission consent deal that will end a blackout that started July 10, reports B&C. The Hearst TV stations pulled their signals from Time Warner Cable at midnight on July 10,…
Yahoo will pay its new chief executive up to $100 million in compensation, stock, bonus and retention awards over five years, reports The Wall Street Journal. Marissa Mayer will receive about $5.4 million from Yahoo for the rest of 2012,…
The ABC drama "Revenge" has cast film and TV actress Jennifer Jason Leigh, fresh off a story arc on Showtime’s “Weeds,” in a recurring role, reports Deadline.com. Leigh will play the mother of the show’s lead character, Emily Thorne, who…
NBCUniversal has announced a reorganization of its news operations, combining NBC News, CNBC, MSNBC and the Weather Channel under the new NBCUniversal News Group, Deadline.com reports. The company named Pat Fili-Krushel as chairman of the new division, with NBC News’…
High-profile reality shows on three broadcast networks found the ratings waters toxic on Wednesday night, based on Nielsen overnights. The numbers brought bad news for CBS’s “Big Brother,” Fox’s “So You Think You Can Dance” and NBC’s “America’s Got Talent.”…