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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 possible sale of online-streaming site Hulu is at risk of running aground even as bids continue to come in, Reuters reports. The news service reports: “Among the issues are conflicts over complicated digital rights, a wide bid-ask gap, and…
Early returns on the 63rd Annual Primetime Emmys, televised Sunday night on Fox, are not particularly encouraging, TVbytheNumbers.com reports. The broadcast averaged 12.4 million total viewers, the second-lowest tally on record, according to the report. Only the 2008 show on…
One of the iconic figures of broadcast news for more than three decades is said to be in talks with NBC News to join its upcoming newsmagazine “Rock Center with Brian Williams,” TVNewser reports. Citing a Wall Street Journal report,…
A former star of “Lost,” who was involved in a recent incident on a bus in which he was accused of striking the driver during an altercation, will not be charged, reports the AP. Cleveland prosecutors have decided “after a…
"EW.com and Deadline.com report that Alec Baldwin ("30 Rock") pulled out of [Sunday’s Emmys broadcast ] after Fox cut a joke in his pretaped segment about News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch," the Philadelphia Daily News reports. The article continues, "Fox, which…
In the wake of a Primetime Emmys ceremony Sunday night with more than its share of memorable moments, a report in the L.A. Times singles out three as the most buzzworthy. Charlie Sheen’s appearance, in which he wished well to…
CBS Chief Executive Leslie Moonves defended his wife, Julie Chen, against allegations that she threw his name around to threaten her co-hosts on “The Talk," reports Newsweek.com. Responding to a report that Chen allegedly told co-hosts, "My husband can fire…
A new survey breaks down which broadcast networks and which cable networks reach the most viewers in affluent households, reports Jon Lafayette in B&C. ABC came in at No. 1 among broadcast networks, reaching the most viewers in affluent households,…
ABC’s “Modern Family” was the big winner of the night and AMC’s “Mad Men” continued its stranglehold on TV’s top drama prize at Sunday night’s 63rd Primetime Emmy Awards, broadcast live from Hollywood on Fox. “Modern Family” won the Emmy…
ABC Family announced the cancellation of one show along with a number of other programming moves, according to the Los Angeles Times’ Show Tracker blog. “State of Georgia,” the network’s new comedy starring former “Cosby” kid Raven-Symone, has been canceled…