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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.
The man who originated the voice of Gumby, along with being a familiar voice in a wide range of TV commercials, has died, Newsday reports. Dick Beals, who also voiced the commercial character Speedy Alka-Seltzer, was 85. Beals died Tuesday…
"The Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA), a coalition of the nation’s leading media and marketing trade associations and companies, raised concern today about Microsoft’s decision to embed Do Not Track functionality as a default setting in version 10 of its Internet…
Steven Moffat, the main man behind UK’s "Dr. Who" and the PBS hit "Sherlock," has concerns about CBS’s upcoming Holmes drama, "Elementary," reports Blastr.com. Like Moffat’s version of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s iconic detective, the Sherlock in "Elementary" is set…
Teenage singing sensation Justin Bieber, currently on tour in France, suffered a concussion Thursday, People magazine reports. Bieber, 18, had what is being described as a mild concussion after smashing into a glass wall backstage during his Paris concert, the…
The star of a successful ABC drama series plans to leave the show, Deadline.com reports. After appearing as Dr. Addison Montgomery for seven years — the first two on “Grey’s Anatomy” and the last five as the central character on…
Martin Short has spoken out about an on-air incident in which Kathie Lee Gifford asked him about his dead wife, unaware that she had passed away in 2010, E! Online reports. Short accepted Gifford’s apology for the incident, the story…
Russell Brand wants his estranged wife Katy Perry to eliminate footage of their relationship from her upcoming autobiographical documentary, “Part of Me,” the U.K.’s The Sun reports. Perry’s response: fuhgeddaboudit. Perry is reportedly keeping the “warts ‘n’ all” footage of…
A superhero who has been a mainstay of the DC Comics lineup for more than 70 years is being re-envisioned as part of a reboot — and the new version is gay, the New York Post reports. The superhero is…
Turner Broadcasting CEO Phil Kent said he’s "very unhappy" with CNN’s prime-time ratings, and described some of the damage as "self-inflicted," reports Jon Lafayette at B&C. He also blamed part of the ratings slide on environmental causes, the story adds….