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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.
With Rosie O’Donnell’s OWN talk show canceled, as we reported over the weekend, a longtime critic of O’Donnell took the opportunity to rub it in, TMZ.com reports. Donald Trump, who has had a high-profile feud with O’Donnell for some time,…
A new ABC drama continues to perform well on Sundays, finishing last night as the top-rated show of prime time in Nielsen overnights, TVbytheNumbers.com reports. “Once Upon a Time” had a 2.9 average rating in the 18-49 demo to lead…
MTV has announced that a controversial reality show will end with its fourth season, which is expected to air this summer, reports USWeekly.com. The show is "Teen Mom," which will end the installment featuring the four original cast members. "Season…
A woman who inspired a 1970 TV cartoon series has died, reports TheWrap.com. The inspiration for lead singer and guitarist Josie McCoy of “Josie and the Pussycats,” Josie DeCarlo, died in her sleep, the story reports. The Hanna-Barbera character was…
CBS has tapped a correspondent for Oprah Winfrey’s OWN cable network as the host of a new reality show, reports TVNewser.com. OWN’s Lisa Ling, a former ABC and CNN correspondent, will host a show called "The Job," the story says….
Reversing a decade-long ratings decline, the broadcast news divisions of ABC, CBS and NBC added viewers in 2011, according to The Hollywood Reporter, citing the Project for Excellence in Journalism’s State of the Media report. Total viewership across the three…
The director of the “Kony 2012” video — part of a campaign against a Ugandan warlord that has gone viral in recent weeks, as previously reported — was detained by police in San Diego after what’s being described as a…
George Clooney’s girlfriend is reportedly in talks to join "The X Factor," according to the New York Post’s Page Six. The talks with Stacy Keibler are secret and are going on while the show continues to negotiate with pop star…
Nielsen and media agency GroupM announced a pioneering collaboration today that will develop a new measurement service integrating media planning and measurement across television and the Internet. The companies announced: “The goal is to overcome challenges posed by separate media…
Coverage of the “March Madness” NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship through Saturday’s telecasts received the event’s best ratings in 18 years, Multichannel News reports. Tournament programming on TBS, CBS, TNT and TruTV through March 17 pulled in a collective 5.3 U.S….