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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 his network lost out to ABC in its bid for broadcast rights to the Country Music Awards, CBS Chief Executive Leslie Moonves reportedly has banned coverage of the event on "Entertainment Tonight," according to the New York Post’s Page…
After losing Eddie Murphy as host of the upcoming 84th Academy Awards, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences has announced that Billy Crystal will return to host the show. Murphy announced he was off the telecast soon after…
Kim Kardashian’s former publicist says he believes her wedding to Kris Humphries was staged, adding that he helped her stage other moments in her life, reports the New York Post’s Page Six. Jonathan Jaxson, who worked with Kardashian from 2007…
An advertiser has pulled its spending from two Penn State football games that are slated to air on ESPN, citing "allegations surrounding the Penn State football program," reports The Wall Street Journal. (Please note that the WSJ is behind a…
[To see Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry’s debate gaffe, wherein he can’t recall the government agency he wants closed, please click here. Below is his Letterman appearance explaining the gaffe.]
CBS’s "The Talk" has hit a season high in the ratings, not long after the debut of a new lineup for the morning chat show. The high mark follows the hiring of Aisha Tyler, an actress known for her work…
Sony Chief Executive Officer Howard Stringer said he will continue in his job and will turn around the Japanese electronics and entertainment company, reports Bloomberg. "I’m up for the fight,” Stringer, 69, said at an event this week in New…
CBS’s "The Early Show" has made two key hires as the low-rated morning show gets a makeover geared to hard news, reports Brian Stelter in The New York Times. The show announced the hiring of Charlie Rose and Gayle King,…
An actress known for her sexy roles in movies such as “Showgirls” and “Bound” is behind what sounds like an unlikely project that’s reportedly in development at Starz. The project is about the Ottoman Empire, and it’s based on an…
With plans in the works to move two recently canceled soap operas to an online network, one of the soaps has run into a hurdle, ABCSoapsInDepth.com reports. Plans to shift the former ABC soap opera “One Life to Live” continue…