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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.
A well-known TV personality who has been developing a talk show for Oprah Winfrey’s OWN network has had a change of heart about the ratings-challenged cable net and is jumping ship, Fox News reports. Jenny McCarthy has decided to develop…
Time Warner Cable revealed that its cable TV subscriptions shrank considerably during the second quarter, while it added broadband customers and saw a 35% surge in business services revenue, Multichannel News reports. Cable subs fell by 128,000, according to the…
A senior producer on “CBS Evening News” has decided to get in on the musical chairs taking place between the CBS and NBC news divisions. Katie Boyle is making the jump from “Evening News” to NBC, where she will be…
The former Pacific-10 Conference, now the Pac-12, is forming its own national and regional sports network, reports Deadline.com. The network, which will include six regional channels along with a national channel, will launch in August 2012, broadcasting basketball, football and…
Amid reports that BET was canceling one of its shows, the network issued a statement saying the show is just going on hiatus, says Multichannel News. According to the article, "The Mo’Nique Show" which is "the first late-night show hosted by…
Reed MIDEM announced the MIPCOM 2011 Personality of the Year today, and for the first time the honor is going to a woman. The honoree is Anne Sweeney, Disney/ABC Television Group president and Disney Media Networks co-chair. The 27th annual…
Another member of the Kardashian family will appear on ABC’s “Dancing With the Stars,” following in the footsteps of Kim Kardashian, TMZ.com reports. Rob Kardashian, one of the stars of "Keeping Up With the Kardashians," will be the second member…
Denise Richards, the former wife of actor Charlie Sheen, has offered her insights into Sheen’s well-publicized meltdown at the Plaza Hotel in New York last year, reports US Magazine. Richards said she went to dinner with Sheen and his "friends,"…
The premiere of a movie about the Electric Daisy Carnival Experience — billed as the film version of a rave — turned into a riot on Hollywood Blvd. on Wednesday night, July 27, 2011, the website of KTLA-TV reports. According…
Hugh Hefner’s runaway bride, Crystal Harris, revealed some unflattering details about the founder of Playboy when she appeared on Howard Stern’s radio show, reports the New York Post’s Page Six. "Hef doesn’t really take off his clothes. I have never…