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.

Netflix Projects Slowdown in Growth of Video Streaming

Netflix, after reporting its first loss since 2005, projected a slowdown in the growth of its U.S. streaming customers, reports Bloomberg. The company’s shares plunged 17% Monday after projecting the slowdown, the story notes. Netflix expects to end the second…

Coaches on NBC’s ‘The Voice’ Close In on Raises

NBC is close to new deals with "The Voice" coaches Adam Levine, Cee-Lo, Blake Shelton and Christina Aguilera, reports Deadline.com. All four will be receiving bigger salaries, with Levine, Cee-Lo and Shelton moving into the high seven-figure range for a…

HBO Cancels Series for the Second Time

It appears that HBO means it this time. The pay-cable channel has decided to cancel a series — and it’s a series HBO has canceled before, HitFix.com reports. The series is the animated "The Life and Times of Tim." The…

Bill O’Reilly Goes After ‘Glee’

Fox News host Bill O’Reilly vented on his show "The O’Reilly Factor" last week about the most recent episode of Fox’s "Glee," the New York Daily News reports. O’Reilly took offense at a plot point about a young man, played…

Fox’s ’25th Anniversary Special’ Is a Ratings Bust — But It’s Not Alone

Fox’s heavily promoted ‘25th Anniversary Special,’ accompanied by special airings of the pilots for the network’s seminal shows “The Simpsons” and “Married … With Children,” failed to pump life into the Sunday ratings. When all was said and done, none…

Did ‘Titanic’ Help Rouse Ailing Bee Gee From Coma?

Ailing Bee Gees singer Robin Gibb, 62, was reportedly joking and laughing today after coming out of a 12-day coma, as we reported earlier. Gibb reportedly suffered pneumonia during what has been described as a hard recovery from cancer. His…

Lindsay Lohan Locks In Role of Screen Legend

It has been rumored for months, but now it’s official: Lindsay Lohan has signed with Lifetime to play the lead in the cable channel’s upcoming biopic “Liz & Dick,” Deadline.com reports. We reported back in February that Lohan apparently had…

Moonves Names Co-Presidents of CBS Films

Leslie Moonves, president and CEO of CBS Corp., has named two executives as co-presidents of CBS Films. Deadline.com reports that Wolfgang Hammer and Terry Press have been given the titles. The story reports: “This cements a structure that has worked…

Syfy Already Pitching ‘Defiance,’ Coordinated TV Series and Video Game — It Won’t Be Introduced for a Year, but Complicated Project Requires Bringing in Marketers Early

By Jeanine PoggiAdvertising Age Syfy is already pitching advertisers on integrations into "Defiance," the coordinated TV series and multiplayer online game that it plans to introduce in April 2013. The complicated nature of the project, in which plot points will…

Syfy Pushes to Line Up Integrated Advertisers for Upcoming Multiplatform Series

Syfy is getting an early start on lining up advertisers to integrate into an upcoming series, Advertising Age reports. The series is “Defiance,” which will be a coordinated TV series and multiplayer online game. “Defiance,” set to debut in April…