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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.
Comcast is pulling the plug on a three-year-old original Web content unit of NBCUniversal, reports Andrew Hampp in Advertising Age. NBC Universal Digital Studio has been shuttered, the story reports. The Digital Studio aimed to create branded entertainment such as…
NBC is overhauling a high-profile comedy project, and has let go three cast members–almost half the cast–reports TVLine.com. The show is the upcoming "Are You There, Vodka? It’s Me, Chelsea," based on Chelsea Handler’s best-selling comic memoir. The show has…
NBC announced that it was “simply outbid” for the rights to an event that the network has carried for 43 years, the Associated Press reports. ESPN is nearing a deal with Wimbledon that would bring an end to NBC’s association…
Daniel Radcliffe, who stars as Harry Potter in one of the most successful film series of all time, has opened up in a new interview with GQ in which he reveals that he has struggled with alcohol, including drinking a…
Lady Gaga will join the lineup of a popular competition show during the next few weeks, reports EW.com’s Music Mix blog. The show is Fox’s "So You Think You Can Dance," where the pop star will appear as a judge…
For the second year in a row, the annual Major League Eating contest at Coney Island, televised by ESPN, was marked by controversy–and once again it involved former champion Takeru Kobayashi, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The ESPN telecast July…
Dina Lohan, the mother of troubled starlet Lindsay Lohan, is in talks to appear on a hit reality show, reports the New York Post’s Page Six. The show is ABC’s dancing competition "Dancing With the Stars," according to the story….
Fox News anchor Gregg Jarrett jumped in to apologize to viewers on Monday morning after the network aired a Casey Anthony trial prosecution rebuttal that included a jailhouse recording that used the "F" word five times, reports TVNewser.com. The recording….
A young member of the Kennedy clan is launching an acting career and has been cast in Aaron Sorkin’s HBO project "More as This Story Develops," reports the New York Post’s Page Six. Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s daughter Kathleen "Kick"…
Hackers apparently took over a Fox News Twitter account early on July 4 and sent out tweets that claimed President Obama had been fatally shot while campaigning in Iowa, reports The New York Times. Six messages were removed around noon…