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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.
A new AMC drama series has dropped significantly in the ratings since its debut in early November, reports Joe Adalian in New York Magazine’s Vulture blog. "Hell on Wheels" slipped Sunday to 1.58 million viewers younger than 50, down from…
Can’t get enough of the two Oscar-winning "Godfather" movies? Or do you just love "Planet Earth"? It’s time once again to become part couch potato and take in the myriad marathons and specials on TV this Thanksgiving Holiday Weekend. Our…
Radio shock jock Howard Stern has reportedly put a hefty price tag on himself as negotiations advance with "America’s Got Talent" — and part of the deal, if Stern gets his way, will include moving the show to New York…
NBC continues to move forward on a project from a popular comedian that was the subject of a bidding war between NBC and ABC. After giving a pilot commitment to the show from Sarah Silverman, as reported earlier, now the…
A study by Internet management and security company SplashData has compiled the worst passwords of the year, based on data from hackers, Time reports. No. 1 on the list: “password.” (Its variation, “passw0rd,” created by changing the letter o to…
TVWeeek will publish all of its daily e-newsletters today, Wednesday, November 23, 2011: TVBizWire, Daily Viral Video and E-Daily. We’re off tomorrow, Thanksgiving Day, and Friday. We’ll be back in the saddle on regular schedule come Monday. And, as always, if news…
A poll by New Jersey’s Fairleigh Dickinson University implies that people who watch Fox News are less informed than people who watch no news, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The survey of 612 New Jersey residents found that only 49%…
Monday’s first installment of ABC’s morning show without Regis Philbin — which by the way has a new name — drew healthy ratings, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The show, now anchored by Philbin’s former co-host, Kelly Ripa, and now…
How far has NBC’s regularly scheduled lineup of prime-time shows sunk? Well, last week its evening "Nightly News," averaging 9.1 million viewers, beat almost everything offered on NBC’s prime-time schedule, reports David Bauder at the Associated Press. Excluding “Sunday Night Football” and…
This video was seen live as it happened. According to the YouTube description accompanying the video: A helicopter has crashed in central Auckland while installing the Telecom Christmas tree. The seven-storey-high tree was being put up near the Te Wero…