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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.
Intensifying an existing competition between entertainment trade publications, the parent company of the entertainment news website Deadline.com sued the parent of The Hollywood Reporter, seeking more than $5 million in damages, reports the Los Angeles Times’ Company Town blog. Penske…
Ethan Hawke is making another run at series television after his Fox pilot "Exit Strategy" failed to get a series order in May, according to The Hollywood Reporter. This time Hawke is reportedly working on a cop drama, “Blue Tilt,”…
"Nielsen, [on Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2011] unveiled a push to turn the new online campaign ratings system it developed with Facebook into the online equivalent of the TV industry’s so-called ‘GRPs,’ or gross ratings points, which are Madison Avenue’s ‘currency’ for the…
Current TV has announced the hiring of a veteran TV exec as EVP of programming, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The channel has given the job to Shelley Lewis, who most recently exec produced the PBS newsmagazine “Need to Know,”…
A pair of 1970s television icons will come together as a couple on a sitcom that is about to roll out for its second season, TVLine.com reports. Oscar winner Shirley Jones, best known as the mother on "The Partridge Family,"…
Nielsen revealed this week that one 15-minute time slot is the most viewed part of prime time. The research firm said the period from 9:15 to 9:30 p.m. has the biggest audience, with almost 42% of Americans with TV sets…
The FBI is reportedly looking into the release of semi-nude photos of actress Scarlett Johansson that are believed to have been hacked from her phone, according to FoxNews.com. The photos, apparently taken by Johansson with her cell phone, surfaced today…
CNN’s partnership with the Tea Party to present the recent Republican presidential debate has many critics saying it’s at best an odd pairing and at worst something potentially more sinister. Yahoo’s news blog The Cutline cites The New York Times,…
ABC’s two-hour news special “Jacqueline Kennedy: In Her Own Words” performed solidly among older viewers Tuesday night, but NBC’s reality lineup, led by “America’s Got Talent,” and its season premiere of “Parenthood” combined to give the Peacock Network a win…
Humanitas has elected one of the most honored writers and producers in television as its new president, Deadline.com reports. The nonprofit organization, which supports and rewards television and film writers whose works “entertain, engage and enrich the viewing public,” elected…