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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.
In a first for a live Fox reality show, the network is making “The X Factor” available on VOD through major cable operators Comcast, Time Warner Cable and Cox Communications, Multichannel News reports. The VOD launch started Sept. 22, after…
Simon Cowell has his sights set on branching out into a new TV genre after one of his shows got beat by another show in Australia, The Sun reports. The talent competition guru plans to move into cooking shows, after…
Even though the new fall television season has just started, it’s possible to get a sense of which shows are on the cancellation track and which ones will survive, writes Joe Adalian in New York Magazine’s Vulture blog. On the…
Andrea Wong, the former CEO of Lifetime and before that a top executive at ABC, has gotten a major job at Sony. Or, more accurately, two jobs, reports our friend Nellie Andreeva at Deadline.com. One of the jobs is President…
An Alabama man who became an “accidental” Internet sensation last year has been arrested, TMZ.com reports. Antoine Dodson was reportedly stopped by police Sunday in his home town of Huntsville, Ala., for violating a local noise ordinance by playing his…
CBS’s "Two and a Half Men" is looking for ways to keep the momentum going after its high-rated season premiere, and an upcoming guest appearance could help, reports EW.com’s Inside TV blog. Joe Manganiello, who plays the werewolf Alcide on…
As "Dancing with the Stars" has matured, ABC’s six-year-old dancing competition has evolved to the point where it’s sometimes not so easy to tell who the show’s stars are: the "stars" or their dancing professional partners, writes Brooks Barnes in…
A new study spotlights an increasing threat to the already tough TV station business, Deadline.com reports. The study by Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism and the Pew Internet & American Life Project says local newscasts are at…
Turner Broadcasting is trying to sell "Conan" with a new pitch, reports Brian Steinberg in Advertising Age. That approach is "forget the TV ratings, look at his online popularity," Steinberg writes. It’s the natural response to the weakened ratings and…
One network broadcast dominated Sunday night’s ratings, according to early figures, racking up the best numbers of any show so far in fall 2011’s premiere week, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The big show was NBC’s “Sunday Night Football,” which…