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.

Two Stalwarts of Liberal Talk Radio Join Morning Lineup at Cable Network (No, It’s Not MSNBC)

Two radio talk shows from the left side of the political spectrum will be simulcast on cable. The two personalities are Bill Press and Stephanie Miller. Both of their morning radio shows are coming to the Current cable channel this…

Oprah Slates Interview With Whitney Houston’s Daughter and Family Members

Oprah Winfrey has scheduled a sit-down interview with Bobbi Kristina Brown, the daughter of the late Whitney Houston, TV Guide reports. The telecast will also feature interviews with Patricia Houston, Whitney Houston’s sister-in-law and manager, and the singer’s brother, Gary…

Cable Keeps Cranking Out Auction, Pawn, Bargain-Hunting and Repo Shows, but Are Advertisers Ready to Say Enough Already?

Cable Networks are ready to present their programming to advertisers in the upfront, but there’s at least one problem: All the shows are starting to look the same, Advertising Age reports. The trend has been toward look-alike auction, pawn, bargain-hunting…

Talk About Visual Influence: Oscar-Winning Artist Who Created the Look of ‘Star Wars,’ ‘E.T.’ and ‘Close Encounters of the Third Kind’ Dies. He Also Designed the Look of the Original ‘Battlestar Galactica’ on TV

An Oscar-winning conceptual designer and illustrator who is credited with creating the look of the original “Star Wars” trilogy has died, Entertainment Weekly reports. Ralph McQuarrie, 82, died Saturday in Berkeley, Calif., from complications arising out of his long battle with Parkinson’s disease,…

Video: Charlie Sheen Puts His Bad-Boy Image to Good Use

Subject of Documentary Series Executed in Texas

The reported ringleader of a Texas prison break who was a focus of an upcoming four-part TV documentary series has been executed in Texas, Realscreen reports. George Rivas is a subject of the Investigation Discovery series “On Death Row,” from…

Lindsay Lohan’s ‘SNL’ Appearance Pumps Up Ratings; Video: Lohan’s ‘SNL’ Opening

Lindsay Lohan’s appearance as host of “Saturday Night Live” was a ratings success for NBC, delivering the show’s second-best numbers of the season in metered-market households, NBC reports. The show pulled a 5.5/14 household number in metered markets, second only…

Fox Tweaks Prime-Time Schedule

Fox has announced that it’s moving one show and holding off on the start of another one, Deadline.com reports. The network will yank "The Finder" from Thursdays and move it to Fridays for the remainder of the season, the story…

Daytime Drama Emmy Winners Will Come From This List. Lots of Emotion This Year Because This Is the Last Time Actors and Actresses From the Canceled Soaps ‘All My Children’ and ‘One Life to Live’ Can Win

It’s soon time for the Daytime Emmys, and the New York-based National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, in cooperation with the Los Angeles-based Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, has announced the list of actors and actresses on the…

39th Annual Daytime Entertainment Emmy Awards: Complete List of Pre-Nominations for Drama Performer

Here’s the press release issued today, March 2, 2012, by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences containing the full list of drama performer pre-nominations for the 39th annual Daytime Emmy Awards. The National Academy of Television Arts &…