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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.
After AT&T said it would pay at least $215 million to settle a patent lawsuit over DVRs, TiVo’s shares jumped in after-hours trading, reports Bloomberg. AT&T will pay $51 million up front, with quarterly payments through June 2018 that will…
Whether "Terra Nova" gets renewed for a second season on Fox — along with the fate of the network’s long-running medical drama “House” — may depend on how the network’s midseason shows perform, reports Deadline.com. The situation is especially critical…
"American Idol" has been hit with a leak of a partial list of the show’s top 42 finalists, with the season premiere just two weeks away, reports the New York Post. (Spoiler alert.) Many names on the list are singers…
By Chuck Ross What a night! Mitt Romney squeaked out a victory over Rick Santorum in the Iowa Republican Caucuses by 8 votes out of about 122,000 total votes cast. Romney received 30,015 votes to Santorum’s 30,007. Ron Paul came…
A longtime sports broadcaster, who won an Emmy for an essay on the bombing at Olympic Park during the 1996 Atlanta Games, has died, Bloomberg reports. Jim Huber, 67, died Monday in Atlanta. Huber joined Turner Sports full time in…
Monday’s two-hour premiere of “The Bachelor” saw the latest installment of the ABC reality staple get off to a less than promising start for the network, with a 2.4 rating and 6 share in viewers 18-49 and 7.7 million viewers,…
Oprah Winfrey, who was buried in bad news throughout 2011 as her fledgling cable network struggled in the ratings, finally has some good news to celebrate. USA Today reports that the talk show diva’s new OWN series, “Oprah’s Next Chapter,”…
Along with an upcoming HBO documentary, Elton John has a biopic in the works based on his life, and he has revealed his choice for the actor who will play him. Sir Elton said during an interview with the Los…
The Producers Guild of America revealed the nominees today for its annual awards, which will be presented Jan. 21 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. Nominations for the 23rd Annual Producers Guild Awards were announced in television and motion picture categories…
Netflix has unveiled a new original series starring a member of Bruce Springsteen’s E-Street Band who played one of the main characters on HBO’s “The Sopranos.” Steven Van Zandt, who plays guitar for The Boss and played Tony Soprano’s sidekick…