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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.
Walt Disney Chief Executive Robert Iger pointed the finger for high cable subscription rates, the New York Post reports. Iger said regional sports networks are the main culprits, stressing that ESPN is not to blame, the story reports. ESPN has…
More than half of the advertising inventory for the 2013 Super Bowl broadcast has already been sold by CBS, reports Brian Steinberg in Advertising Age. The broadcast may reach sell-out levels of close to 80% in the next few weeks,…
The NBC comedy "Up All Night" has tapped a new executive producer, with Universal TV signing an overall deal with comedy writer and producer DJ Nash, reports Deadline.com. "Up All Night" was renewed for a second season with a 13-episode…
The month of May has produced some of the worst ratings for cable news networks, a surprise development given the presidential campaigns that are heating up, reports Bill Carter in The New York Times’ Media Decoder. Fox News saw the…
Fox Business News, after dropping three series from its prime-time lineup earlier this year, will debut a new program, "Money with Melissa Francis," June 4, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The show will air daily at 5 p.m., and the…
TiVo warned investors that legal expenses could lead to a wider loss than analysts have expected, reports Bloomberg. The forecast came as digital video recorder pioneer TiVo reported a first-quarter loss of $20.8 million due to higher hardware costs, the…
Tyler Perry took to his website to deny a report that Whitney Houston’s daughter Bobbi Kristina walked off the set of "Tyler Perry’s For Better or Worse," according to The Hollywood Reporter. "I woke up this morning to my publicist…
The married Hollywood power couple who co-founded Amblin Entertainment with Steven Spielberg have signed a major deal with CBS, reports Deadlne.com. According to the story, the couple–Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall — "are making a foray into television with a…
A cable miniseries has been pulling in unprecedented ratings, and its second night drew viewer numbers that were almost as big as the record-breaking premiere. As we reported yesterday, History’s “Hatfields & McCoys” set a record for ad-supported cable, excluding…
A towering figure in American music, who has been called one of the most important guitar players of the 20th century, has died. The Los Angeles Times reports that Doc Watson died Tuesday at 89. Doc Watson Arthel Lane “Doc”…