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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.
An advertiser that suspended a campaign featuring Alec Baldwin after the "30 Rock" star had a bad moment on an American Airlines flight last month has reinstated the campaign, reports the New York Post. Supermarket giant Wegmans ran the campaign…
Netflix appears to be back in the good graces of investors after releasing new data on streaming video usage, reports the Los Angeles Times’ Company Town blog. The company’s shares had their biggest gain in almost a year Wednesday, when…
A new series that drew protests from activist groups almost as soon as it was announced finally made it to the air Tuesday, and the ratings were less than spectacular, reports Joe Adalian in New York Magazine’s Vulture blog. The…
"The Shield" creator Shawn Ryan and film writer Karl Gajdusek are close to receiving a pilot order from ABC for a new project, reports Deadline.com. The project, “Last Resort,” is a thriller focusing on the crew of a U.S. nuclear…
Another year, another wild creature named after a TV figure. Following the 2011 naming of a mushroom after SpongeBob SquarePants, a newly discovered crab has been dubbed "The Hoff," after "Baywatch" star David Hasselhoff, reports Escapist.com. The new type of…
2011 was a big year for bonehead tweets, with Alec Baldwin, Gilbert Gottried and Ice-T just a few of the high-profile Twitter users to make memorable blunders. The Hollywood Reporter recently compiled a list of the 11 most ill-fated tweets…
A weekday show that has been a fixture of daytime television has been canceled, USA Today reports. The show is Hallmark Channel’s “The Martha Stewart Show.” The cable channel announced that it will pull the plug on the show this…
CBS has found a new anchor for the Sunday editions of its "Evening News" broadcasts. The network will move Jeff Glor, who has been news anchor for “The Early Show” for the past year, into the spot, B&C reports. Glor…
In total about $16 million was spent on political TV ads in Iowa for the Iowa Caucuses, according to The Atlantic Monthly. The most money was spent on behalf of Rick Perry, both by his campagn and a SuperPac–a total…
Fast national results from Nielsen for Tuesday night’s coverage of the Iowa caucuses in the Republican presidential primary show Fox News Channel well ahead of its competition in the ratings. CNN was solidly in second place, with MSNBC third. Figures…