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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.
The former star of a reality series was released from the hospital Monday following a weeklong stay, with media outlets reporting sometimes conflicting explanations including a brain aneurysm, a drug overdose and a suicide attempt. According to some accounts, Tila…
ABC made ratings history with its telecast Sunday of an NBA game, ESPN and ABC Sports reported. The game between the Miami Heat and the Los Angeles Lakers was the networks’s most viewed non-Christmas Day regular-season NBA game in history….
NBC scored a big win in Monday’s prime-time ratings, with “The Voice” and “Smash” both posting solid gains, TVbytheNumbers.com reports. NBC easily won the night in the key 18-49 demo, averaging a 4.9 rating to trounce ABC (2.1 average), Fox…
The Super PACs have finally put to rest fears that they’re not in a spending mood this year. In the runup to today’s Super Tuesday elections, the political funding organizations loosened the purse strings and shelled out more than $6…
Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution announced that it has sold the broadcast television syndication rights for the sitcom “The Middle” in more than 92% of the U.S. Making the announcement today were company President Ken Werner and Executive Vice President/General…
The Academy of Television Arts and Sciences inducted eight new members — three of them posthumously — into its Hall of Fame last week, and TVWeek Open Mic writer Hillary Atkin was on hand to document the historic event. Click…
Fox has decided to pull the plug on one of its drama series, with the show’s producer planning to shop it to other networks, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The Steven Spielberg series “Terra Nova” has been the subject of…
The bloodbath continues for conservative talk host Rush Limbaugh’s radio show, which continues to lose advertisers — and now has lost two radio stations — in the wake of a verbal attack by the host on a law student who…
"Japanese researchers have invented a speech-jamming gadget that painlessly forces people into silence," Fox News reports. The article continues, "The device works by recording its target’s speech then firing their words back at them with a 0.2-second delay, which affects…
A rock superstar and his well-known family are being made into an animated series, Reuters reports. A Toronto-based animation studio — Cuppa Coffee Studios, which is also behind Comedy Central’s “Ugly Americans” — is working on a show that brings…