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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.
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak told Bloomberg News he will buy shares in Facebook’s initial stock offering no matter what the price. “I don’t care what the opening price is," Wozniak said. He described founder Mark Zuckerberg as a "real acute"…
Fox isn’t expected to overhaul its schedule, and will likely stick to a plan to create an all-comedy Tuesday night, reports Deadline.com. The network, which will announce its fall schedule later today, will debut a Tuesday night schedule featuring the…
Carroll Hall Shelby, best known now for his high-performance Shelby Cobras and Shelby Mustangs, has died at age 89, USA Today reports. The Texan had been in a Dallas hospital suffering from pneumonia, the story says. Recounting the Shelby’s life,…
Several broadcast networks squeezed in programming announcements Friday afternoon ahead of the upfronts, including series pickups as well as series renewals and cancellations. This matieral has been culled from various articles posted by our friends at Deadline.com. Among the headlines,…
A jury has come in with a verdict in the trial of William Balfour, 31, who had been accused of killing the mother, brother and 7-year-old nephew of Oscar-winning actress and singer Jennifer Hudson. "Balfour has been convicted on all…
"Two big cases addressing marriage rights for gays and lesbians are on track to reach the U.S. Supreme Court as soon as this year, keeping the focus on an issue President Barack Obama reignited with his endorsement this week," reports…
NBC has resolved much of the mystery surrounding the fates of a number of its shows, announcing renewals today for several series, E! News reports. The network will bring back “Parks and Recreation,” “Whitney” and “Up All Night,” the story…
The family of the late singer Whitney Houston has received an order for a reality show, the Los Angeles Times reports. The order comes from Lifetime, which will track Houston’s family members in 10 one-hour episodes of “The Houston Family…
Two NBC comedy series had their lowest-rated finales ever Thursday night, as the trend on most of the broadcast networks was down, TVbytheNumbers.com reports. According to Nielsen overnights, NBC’s “The Office” scored a modest 2.2 average rating in the key…
A TV personality who’s a regular on reality television — and who’s also a regular in the legal system — is back behind bars, MSNBC reports. Amber Portwood, a star of MTV’s “Teen Mom,” was arrested Thursday in Indiana for…