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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.
Verizon Communications is "very serious" about making an offer to purchase Netflix, according to a report from Bloomberg, citing an investment banker. Porter Bibb, managing partner at Mediatech Capital, said he’s "hearing rumblings from inside Verizon that they are very…
Bright House Media Strategies announced today that it has signed deals with Verizon FiOS TV, Comcast Spotlight and Viamedia/Knology that will help regional and national spot television advertisers place ads in the Tampa/St. Petersburg market. Bright House Media Strategies is…
Another cable network plans to crash the traditionally broadcast-only upfront week in New York, according to The Hollywood Reporter. USA’s upfront event will take place the evening of Thursday, May 17, 2012 at Lincoln Center, with cast members from its popular…
The horror series "Hemlock Grove" is close to a deal with Netflix, with producer and director Eli Roth making his first television foray, reports Deadline.com. Roth, who’s behind the "Hostel" film franchise, based the series on Brian McGreevy’s soon-to-be-published horror…
Television viewers could soon be watching more Palin family adventures, as Sarah Palin is working with producer Mark Burnett to pitch a reality series about her husband Todd’s snowmobile racing, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Palin and Burnett have had…
George Clooney and producing partner Grant Heslov will produce a feature film about the controversial 1960s CBS musical-comedy-variety show "The Smothers Brothers Hour," reports TheWrap.com. Smokehouse Pictures will team with Sony to adapt David Bianculli’s 2009 book centered on the…
CBS announced today that it will buy another station, a move that will give the network a duopoly in the nation’s No. 1 media market. CBS plans to buy New York station WLNY-TV. The network already owns WCBS-TV in the New…
The American Film Institute has picked its Top 10 television shows of 2011, and two freshman dramas are among the series making the cut, reports TVLine.com. Those two series are Showtime’s "Homeland" and HBO’s "Game of Thrones." The rest of…
Episodes of a 1960s TV show that were thought to be lost have just surfaced, The Guardian reports. The show is the cult favorite sci-fi series “Dr. Who,” which has been on the air again recently in a new version….
A former reality television star was put in her place twice in the past few days, but she also got a lot of publicity, which may be what she wanted. Examiner.com reports that Jill Zarin, who starred in the first…