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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.
News Corp. has become involved in yet another hacking incident, although this time the media company is at the other end of the hack, reports the Guardian. The Times of London and The Sun, both owned by News Corp., were…
Hulu is reportedly offering potential buyers a guarantee of five years of access to television shows from its media owners, according to Bloomberg. The offer includes two years of exclusivity for shows from its owners, which include Walt Disney, News…
The U.S. women’s national soccer team’s match against Japan in Sunday’s Women’s World Cup final was a loss for the U.S., but ESPN scored with its biggest audience ever for a soccer match, reports Multichannel News. The match drew 13.46…
Cable network TeenNick is dedicating a programming block to an era that it considers something of a golden age of television — at least to its targeted demographic of 18- to-34-year-olds, reports The New York Times‘ Brian Stelter. The era…
New York politician and former presidential candidate Al Sharpton is under consideration for his own MSNBC show, reports the New York Post. He would replace Cenk Uygur at 6 p.m., with the plan surfacing as Sharpton is in his third…
An Oscar winner has been tapped to replace Bette Midler in HBO’s telefilm project about music producer Phil Spector, reports Deadline.com. The role will be taken over by Helen Mirren. As previously reported, Midler pulled out of the biopic project…
Reports Mike Fleming at Deadline.com, "Universal has passed on going forward with the project, dealing a huge blow [to] the plan for Ron Howard to direct Akiva Goldsman’s script, with Brian Grazer, Goldsman and the author producing and Javier Bardem starring…
Following the exit of Christopher Meloni, another of the stars of NBC’s "Law & Order: SVU" has announced that he’s leaving the show, reports TVLine.com. In a live tweet for the USA Network "L&O: SVU" marathon, B.D. Wong said, "I…
A former News of the World journalist who blew the whistle on the phone-hacking scandal was found dead today at his home in the U.K., the Daily Mail reports. “Sean Hoare’s body was found on a extraordinary day when a…
VH1 has renewed a scripted show for a second season, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The series is the cable net’s first hourlong scripted show, “Single Ladies,” from executive producer Queen Latifah. The dramedy stars Stacey Dash, LisaRaye McCoy and…