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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.
Between this week and Sept. 11, more than 40 television specials are scheduled to air to mark the 10th anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001, reports the New York Post’s Michael Shain. The piece asks the question, "Is it all too…
Jerry Lewis won’t be returning to the muscular dystrophy fund-raiser this year, his spokeswoman says, denying a report published in the Las Vegas Review-Journal, according to Reuters. On Sunday the Las Vegas Review-Journal published a piece by Norm Clarke that…
Miramax has launched what is reportedly the largest-scale Facebook streaming movie app yet, expanding on the model tried previously by Paramount and Universal, paidContent.org reports. The Miramax eXperience went live with 20 titles available for rent in the U.S., along…
With local television advertising up by almost 25% in 2010 compared with a year earlier, television stations are expanding their local news broadcasts after years of cutting news staff, reports The New York Times‘ Brian Stelter. KSDK-TV, the NBC affiliate…
A well-known rapper was arrested over the weekend after he allegedly used Twitter posts to organize a flash mob at a mall in the Cleveland suburbs, CBS News reports. Rapper Machine Gun Kelly and two other people were arrested Saturday…
The new executive producer of "Blue Bloods" hinted at his plans for the second season of the CBS drama, reports TVGuide.com. Despite speculation that Ed Zuckerman, who used to work on shows such as "Law & Order” and “JAG," would…
Amid a dispute between his family and his estranged wife, "Real Housewives of Bevery Hills" husband Russell Armstrong will have two funeral services following his suicide last week, reports TheWrap.com. Armstrong’s family became angry as they waited for word from…
The CW is planning to expand beyond its traditional base of women 18 to 34 years old, with new shows "Ringer" and "Hart of Dixie" aimed at helping the network appeal to other age groups, reports B&C. "Our bread and…
Lindsay Lohan has filed a lawsuit against a popular rapper, claiming a reference to the actress in a hit song has caused her “irreparable harm,” TMZ.com reports. The line in Pitbull’s “Give Me Everything” is: “Hustlers move aside, so I’m…
A full-on food fight has broken out between a Food Network star and a Bravo and Travel Channel foodie, reports the New York Post. Food Network’s Paula Deen snapped back at Travel Channel’s Anthony Bourdain after he called her the…