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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.
BBC Worldwide Networks’ president is leaving the company as it restructures, Deadline.com reports. BBC announced today that Jana Bennett will exit the company. Bennett has been heading up BBC Worldwide since February. She was previously director of BBC Vision, responsible…
ABC probably wishes the NBA Finals would have gone longer than five games, with Thursday night’s deciding game wrapping up the highest-rated NBA championship series in eight years, Deadline.com reports. ABC used the opportunity Thursday to stomp on the prime-time…
Details have surfaced about the arrest of one of the stars of a popular cable reality series, which we reported yesterday. The Orlando Sentinel reports that Noces Joseph LaFont, who is known as Trapper Joe on the History series “Swamp…
Food Network has picked up a second season of a series featuring a superstar country singer, B&C reports. The show is "Trisha’s Southern Kitchen," a cooking show starring Trisha Yearwood. Bob Tuschman, Food Network’s GM and senior VP — and…
One of the fixtures of morning television has reportedly turned down a "big contract" to replace Ann Curry as co-host on NBC’s "Today," reports TMZ.com. The website reports that Meredith Vieira — who co-anchored “Today” for six years and also…
NBC News’ major franchises are losing ground to rivals, with the network’s news division appearing "adrift" for the first time in more than a decade, report Bill Carter and Brian Stelter in The New York Times. The most visible problem…
The focus on “Today” co-host Ann Curry in recent days has been all about her presumed departure from the show — including speculation about who will replace her, as previously reported. But Curry herself has a different perspective on her…
A Fox News host vented some ill will on the air, targeting the host of a show on rival cable news network MSNBC, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Neil Cavuto, speaking Wednesday on Fox News Channel’s “Your World with Neil…
Was it a shaving accident, as his reps say, or something more intentional? Sporting what looked like either a Band-Aid or surgical tape behind his ear, talent competition guru Simon Cowell sparked rumors that he had a facelift, reports the…