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.

Radical Idea: Why Marketers Need to Devote Most of Their Face Time With Agencies Discussing Media, With Creative Just Taking Up the Last 10 Minutes of the Meeting

Plus, in today’s Media Planner e-Newsletter, please find a salute to TVWeek’s 2012 Media Buyer of the Year. To read that piece, please click here. Why Media Deserves Most of the Time in Your Meeting with Your Client By Antony…

Ryan Seacrest Reveals What He Will Be Doing on NBC

After weeks of rumors that Ryan Seacrest would be replacing Matt Lauer as host of NBC’s “Today” show, Seacrest sat down with Lauer on the show this morning and revealed what he really will be doing. The “American Idol” host…

71st Annual Peabody Award Winners Announced; Here’s the Complete List of Winners

Thirty-eight recipients of the 71st Annual Peabody Awards were announced today by the University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication. The winners, chosen by the Peabody board as the best in electronic media for the year 2011,…

Peabody Winners Announced — Honorees Include Series on HBO, Showtime and NBC, Along With a Syndication Staple. We Have the Complete List of Winners

The 71st Annual Peabody Awards were announced today by the University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, and among the 38 honorees were series on HBO, Showtime and NBC along with one of the big shows in…

HBO Drama Surges, Ranks as Most-Watched Scripted Show on Cable Last Week

HBO enjoyed a big season premiere for its latest hit drama series on Sunday, The New York Times reports in its Media Decoder blog. "Game of Thrones" returned for its second season, drawing 3.9 million viewers and ranking as the…

‘Community’ Creator Apologizes in Nasty Clash With Chevy Chase

"Community" creator Dan Harmon posted an apology on his blog for making the "horrible, childish, self-obsessed, unaware, naive and unprofessional decision to play someone’s voicemail to me," reports Deadline.com. That voicemail was from "Community" co-star Chevy Chase, who was upset…

World’s Largest Consumer Products Company Bans Netflix

The world’s largest consumer products company has blocked access to video-streaming site Netflix and the music-streaming site Pandora on company computers. Procter & Gamble wanted to find out why its computers were running slowly, and discovered that the culprit was…

NBC Apologizes for Trayvon Martin Report

NBC has apologized for a report in the Trayvon Martin shooting death, reports TheWrap.com. Specifically, the network apologized for its editing of a 911 call from the shooter, George Zimmerman, the story reports. "During our investigation it became evident that…

Yahoo to Cut 2,000 Jobs

Yahoo announced Wednesday that it plans to cut 2,000 jobs — 14% of its staff — as the company moves to cut costs and refocus its priorities, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The layoffs were expected, the story notes. Said…

Video: Olbermann Takes the Blame, Sort Of, in His Beef With Current TV

Keith Olbermann took at least part of the blame for his problems with Current TV in an appearance Tuesday night on “Late Show with David Letterman.” “I screwed up,” said the recently fired Current host. “I didn’t think the whole…