Chuck Ross

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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.

No More ‘Mad Men’ or ‘Walking Dead’? Dish Tells Customers It Plans to Drop AMC and Other Cable Nets

Dish Network is telling customers it plans to drop AMC and several other cable networks amid a growing fight with AMC Networks, reports The New York Times’ Media Decoder. Dish said Friday that it has opted not to renew its…

Upfront Negotiations Likely to Be a ‘Summer Slog’

The upfront advertising market is likely to be a "summer slog," writes Brian Steinberg in Advertising Age. "Buyers are betting that economic factors crimping marketing budgets will force sellers to keep TV price hikes to a minimum. Dig below the…

Summer Slog Expected for TV Upfront — Bullish Sellers Mixed With Weak Economy Will Probably Produce Slight Increase

By Brian SteinbergAdvertising Age Don’t book an early vacation this summer. As this year’s annual talks for the sale of TV ad time start in earnest, at least one network is expected to make the case for another year of…

NBCUniversal Seeking to Sell Big Stake in A&E

Comcast’s NBCUniversal unit has exercised an option to sell a "substantial portion of its stake in A&E Television Networks, reports The Wall Street Journal. (Please note that The WSJ is a subscription site and not all readers may be able…

CBS’s ’60 Minutes’ Bucks the Age Trend — Its Viewers Are Getting Younger

The veteran CBS newsmagazine "60 Minutes" is proving aging isn’t inevitable on television, with its current season drawing more viewers 25 to 54 even as its total viewer rating remains the same, reports The New York Times. “It’s hard in…

LIN TV Buys Station Group for $330 Million

LIN Television announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to buy a TV station group for $330.4 million, Deadline.com reports. The group, owned by New Vision Television, has 13 network affiliates — including 10 affiliates of big 4 broadcast…

How Low Can It Go? NBC’s ‘Awake’ Hits a Number That’s Rarely Seen on a Major Broadcast Network

NBC’s troubled first-year fantasy crime drama “Awake” continues to lower the bar in the prime-time ratings. The series set a new low Thursday night in the key demo, TVbytheNumbers.com reports, sinking from last week’s already problematic 0.8 average rating to…