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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.
Simon Cowell has a tabloid frenzy on his hands after a convicted criminal won a huge jackpot on a Cowell game show airing in the U.K., The Guardian reports. Cowell blamed "human error" for allowing Nathan Hageman to compete on…
One of the cast members of Fox’s “Glee” will see her screen time drastically reduced in the show’s third season, TVLine.com reports, in a story flagged with spoiler alerts. The cast member is Ashley Fink, who plays plus-sized student Lauren…
Mel Gibson, who infamously went on an anti-Semitic rant while drunk during a 2006 DUI arrest in Malibu, wants to bring the story of a Jewish hero to the big screen, Mike Fleming of Deadline.com reports. The headline of Fleming’s…
Lifetime has decided not to order a new season of one of its series, Deadline.com reports. The show is the freshman drama “The Protector,” which stars Ally Walker as a single mother who is also a Los Angeles Police Department…
A legendary comedian who grew up on West 121st Street in Manhattan may get the block named after him, the New York Post reports. Fans and family of George Carlin are petitioning the city to agree to the ceremonial renaming,…
Dish Network could be nearing a split with sports cable network ESPN over rights fees, reports the New York Post. Trouble started brewing when ESPN announced a $15.2 billion, eight-year rights extension deal with the NFL for "Monday Night Football,"…
Two major broadcast networks are skipping airing programming this Sunday, Sept. 11, tied to the 10-year anniversary of the 9/11/2001 terrorist attacks, reports The New York Times. The two networks are Fox and NBC. Furthermore, pay cabler HBO, which has a long history of…
Carol Bartz, who was dismissed from her position as Yahoo’s CEO on Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2011, says of the Yahoo board, "These people [f-word] me over." Bartz made her explosive remarks in an exclusive interview with Fortune magazine. According to the article,…
Sinclair Broadcast Group is purchasing television stations in four markets from Cerberus Capital Management in a $200 million purchase, B&C reports. The Four Points Media stations are KUTV-KMYU-TV, Salt Lake City; KEYE-TV, Austin; WTVX-WTCN-WWHB-TV, West Palm Beach; and WLWC-TV, Providence….
Oprah Winfey talked about the downside of having her own network during a live online chat Thursday on Facebook, the AP reports. Winfrey was interviewed for an hour by Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg in front of an audience…