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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.
Producers of Fox’s long-running “The Simpsons,” which is closing in on its 500th episode, have come up with a way to mark the occasion with the help of big-time fans of the show. In an attempt to break the Guinness…
ABC Family has announced the appointment of a new vice president, ABC Family Communications, Disney/ABC Television Group (DATG). Jori Petersen, formerly in charge of all media relations for ABC Daytime, SOAPNet and ABC Media Productions, has been given the job….
The Directors Guild of America today announced the five nominees for best director of 2011 in motion pictures, and despite indications that Steven Spielberg would be one of the five — for either "War Horse" or "The Adventures of Tintin"…
A multiple Emmy-winning actress who was a familiar face on TV from the 1970s through the 1990s has come out as a lesbian, People magazine reports. Kristy McNichol won two Emmys for the ABC drama series “Family” in the 1970s….
Tim Tebow’s first playoff game as quarterback of the Denver Broncos pulled in a massive viewing audience Sunday and spilled over into prime time, leading CBS to a huge win for the night, TVbytheNumbers.com reports. The Broncos’ overtime win over…
A well-known conservative polical pundit for CNN, NBC and NPR — who was a child actor on TV in the 1950s — has died at age 63. The pundit and former child actor, Tony Blankley, had been battling stomach cancer,…
A cable show that had its season premiere last week came in as the highest-rated telecast on cable this season in the 12-34 demo, New York Magazine’s Vulture blog reports. The show is last week’s fifth-season debut of MTV’s "Jersey…
A spinoff of the hit Fox series “Glee” is dead, and a “Glee” star whose character is graduating will be back for season four, according to The Hollywood Reporter. "Glee" star Cory Monteith said he will return for the show’s…
NBC Entertainment Chairman Bob Greenblatt spoke with candor at the semiannual Television Critics Association press tour about the network’s season so far, noting, "We had a really bad fall," reports Joe Adalian in New York Magazine’s Vulture blog. Greenblatt spoke…
The Los Angeles Dodgers may end up with a prominent home-town owner, reports the Los Angeles Times. That owner would be the Disney family. The family of the late Roy Disney, who had a net worth of $1.4 billion in…