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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.
It turns out that the so-called “Slutty Pumpkin” — first mentioned years ago on CBS’s hit sitcom “How I Met Your Mother” — is the better half of one of Hollywood’s headline-grabbing power couples, former TVWeek staffer Joe Adalian writes…
A rock star (or pop star, depending on your point of view) with a long string of No. 1 hits under his belt as half of one of the biggest musical acts of the 1970s is bringing his Web-based show…
A star who won an Emmy portraying a tormented character on HBO’s “The Sopranos” will see if her luck improves on CBS’s “CSI: Miami,” Entertainment Weekly reports. Drea de Matteo, known for playing the beleaguered Adriana on “Sopranos," will resurface…
Showtime announced that it has filled its top communications position, Deadline.com reports. Taking the job of executive VP, Corporate Communictions, is longtime public relations executive Trisha Cardoso. Cardoso takes over the position previously held by Richard Licata, who left Showtime…
It’s apparently supposed to be a best-kept corporate secret, but the cat’s out of the bag now. Quietly working his way up the ranks at CBS News is the grandson of legendary CBS anchorman Walter Cronkite, Politico.com reports. Walter Cronkite…
Fox’s much-hyped premiere of “The X Factor” Wednesday night earned solid overnight ratings, but a show that aired opposite it stole the headlines, TVbytheNumbers.com reports. “X Factor” also failed to reach the heights of the show it’s most often being…
Kudos to Eric Jackson over at Forbes for his stunningly impressive article "The Top 10 Lessons Steve Jobs Can Teach Us – If We’ll Listen." Easily the best business article we’ve read this year, and a must-read for anyone hoping…
It’s Forbes’ annual list of the 400 richest Americans. And according to an article about the list in The Hollywood Reporter, "The first media mogul on the list released Wednesday is Michael Bloomberg, who is No. 12 with $19.5 billion."…
After four women — Jill Zarin, Alex McCord, Cindy Barshop and Kelly Bensimon — were dumped by Bravo for a new season of "The Real Housewives of New York City," the network is bringing in three new women to take…
If you’re a movie lover, and that’s the reason you subscribe to Netflix, there’s even more bad news from the company that seems to love torpedoing itself in recent weeks. Netflix Chief Financial Officer David Wells says that most future content…