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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 the winningest coach in major college football history became a casualty of an ugly scandal at Penn State, many of the university’s students vented their anger at the media, The New York Times reports. Penn State fired coach Joe…
A recently launched daytime talk program has been renewed for a second season, reports B&C. The show is Anderson Cooper’s "Anderson." One key to the pickup is that the show will now be airing on Fox’s WNYW in New York, instead…
A little more than a month after Hank Williams Jr. started a war with Disney, ESPN and others by making a Hitler reference, another well-known personality appears to have committed a similar faux-pas. In the latest incident, "The Chew" host…
CNN talk show host and NBC talent show judge Piers Morgan has been carrying a double workload for almost a year now, and he has had enough. Saying "juggling’s harder than it looks," Morgan announced he will quit the NBC…
A cable news host was booed by the audience during a Republican debate when she asked Herman Cain about "character issues" and whether the American people should hire him, reports TVNewser.com. After Wednesday’s debate, CNBC host Maria Bartiromo tweeted, "I…
The unofficial deadline for new television shows — when those that are going to become early casualties will have a pretty good idea of their fate — is Thanksgiving, reports USA Today. And that deadline is looming. New series usually…
Some TV viewers heard a Lady Gaga song during Wednesday’s nationwide test of the Emergency Alert System, The New York Times’ Media Decoder blog reports. Lady Gaga’s "Paparazzi" went out to some DirecTV subscribers during the first-ever national test of…
[Later in the debate Perry remembered: The Energy Department]
Michael Jackson’s estate is demanding that MSNBC cancel its scheduled airing of a documentary made with the cooperation of Dr. Conrad Murray, who was convicted earlier this week of involuntary manslaughter in the pop star’s death, reports the Los Angeles…
Following the sudden departure of "Tower Heist" director Brett Ratner as a producer of the Academy Awards, Oscar-winning producer Brian Grazer will take the job, reports the New York Post’s Page Six. Under Grazer’s control, the show may focus on…