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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 Florida man charged with hacking into the email accounts of celebrities including Scarlett Johansson and Mila Kunis — and in some cases releasing intimate photos of the stars — gave a candid interview to Fox station WAWS-TV in Jacksonville…
CBS has been so dominant in the ratings for the young fall television season that it has accomplished something no network in history has ever done before, The New York Times reports. According to Nielsen figures for the first three…
Steve Harvey is one hot personality. Right now he’s got a popular radio show, and he’s breathed new life into the syndicated game show “Family Feud,” which originally hit the airwaves 35 years ago. Today it was announced that his daytime…
Hey, isn’t this false advertising? We heard there’s been a pilot orderd for a show titled "Guinness World Records Gone Wild," and thought we knew what it would be about. Knowing the huge popularity over time of the "Gone Wild"…
On a night when a rain-delayed baseball playoff game took Fox out of the running in the overnight ratings, ABC came away with a win for the night in the 18-49 demo, TVbytheNumbers.com reports. On the strength of another big…
Netflix flexed its muscles in the streaming-TV-content space, signing a multiyear deal to carry content from the CW, MSNBC reports. The agreement comes on the heels of a pact Netflix signed last week with AMC. The CW deal will add…
Veteran “Nightline” anchor Ted Koppel, rumored for weeks to be negotiating to join NBC’s new Brian Williams newsmagazine, is officially a part of the show, Bloomberg Businessweek reports. NBC News confirmed that the longtime ABC News mainstay will be a…
The first costume designer to win an Emmy died Tuesday in Los Angeles, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The Iranian-born Ray Aghayan, 83, died of unknown causes, the Archive of American Television announced. In his time as a leading designer,…
Grammy Award-winning singer Whitney Houston, who is said to be clean and sober now after years of troubles with drugs, was nearly thrown off a Delta airplane Wednesday, reports TMZ.com. Houston was on a Delta flight from Atlanta to Detroit…
A top NBC executive from its glory days, who had a hand in developing a string of hugely successful series for the network, is attached as executive producer on a new project for ABC, Deadline.com reports. Former NBC President Warren…