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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.
The former president of one of the broadcast networks, who was an iconic figure in the media world, has died, according to media reports. Daniel Burke, who rose from general manager of local TV station WTEN in Albany to become…
A CBS News correspondent who has been a fixture on the network for more than four decades is in the hospital in serious condition, the Associated Press reports. CBS said 92-year-old Andy Rooney, who gave his last essay on the…
MTV announced it is pulling the plug on a reality show that has been airing to modest ratings, reports EW.com’s Inside TV blog. The show is “The Buried Life,” which has been on the air for two seasons. The series…
Christiane Amanpour may be headed back to CNN after butting heads with her ABC News bosses, according to sources cited by the New York Post’s Page Six. But ABC is denying the report. Sources told the publication that "This Week"…
CBS announced that it is picking up two of its rookie dramas for full seasons, the Los Angeles Times reports in its Show Tracker blog. The shows are "Unforgettable” and “Person of Interest.” “Unforgettable” stars Poppy Montgomery as a police…
A show that many people consider to be one of the finest TV dramas of the 1980s will be remade by NBC, Deadline.com reports. The show is "Wiseguy," from Stephen J. Cannell. The network has bought a script commitment for…
One of the judges on Fox’s “American Idol” was injured in an accident Tuesday, resulting in stitches and emergency dental work, Reuters reports. Steven Tyler, who is in Paraguay for a concert by his band Aerosmith, was involved in what…
Where have all the viewers gone who love baseball. That’s the subject of a sports section cover story in USA Today and also published in other Gannett Newspapers, such as the Tucson Citizen. According to the article, by Bob Nightengale,…
A photographer is suing CBS after the network featured his photos of the mistress and child of former presidential candidate John Edwards, according to The Hollywood Reporter’s Hollywood, Esq. blog. Alan Zanger, a paparazzo, claims the network used the images…
NBC’s “Chuck,” which is ending its run this spring, revealed who will play a multiple-episode story arc as the show’s final villain, TVLine.com reports. The show has cast Scottish actor and "Braveheart" star Angus Macfadyen in the role, the story…