Chuck Ross

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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.

NBC Rides Talent Competitions to Dominant Win in Tuesday Ratings

NBC powered to a huge ratings win Tuesday night behind “America’s Got Talent” and “The Voice,” TVbytheNumbers.com reports. NBC finished the night with a 3.9 average rating in adults 18-49, trouncing ABC (1.6 average), Univision (1.3), Fox (1.3) and CBS…

MGM Names President of International TV Distribution and Acquisitions

MGM announced today that it has promoted one of its executives to president of International Television Distribution and Acquisitions. The job goes to Chris Ottinger, who previously was executive VP of Worldwide Television for the studio. The promotion was announced…

Sheen Has What’s Left of His ‘Two and a Half Men’ Wages Docked for Child Support

A Los Angeles Superior Court judge has ordered Charlie Sheen’s former employers at Warner Bros. to dock Sheen’s wages each month for child support payments, the AP reports. Judge Hank Goldberg ordered the salary the actor is still receiving for…

Rocker Tells Presidential Candidate to Stop Playing His Song

A Rock and Roll Hall of Famer has had his management team send a cease and desist letter to one of the contenders for the 2012 presidential election, requesting that she stop using his song at her campaign appearances, Rolling…

Step Aside, Thursday–There’s a New Hot Night for TV Advertisers

Thursday appears to be falling from advertisers’ good graces as another night rises up the charts in terms of viewership for commercials, reports Brian Steinberg in Advertising Age. Sunday night will as usual be the night that draws the biggest…

Is Thursday Night Still Working for the Weekend? Ad Age Survey Predicts Sunday Still Has the Most Ad Viewership, but Another Night May Prove to Be the New No. 2

By Brian SteinbergAdvertising Age Thursday night — long a ratings smorgasbord and one of the best ways to reach consumers thinking about their weekends — may be yesterday’s news. A survey of ad buyers’ predictions of broadcast shows’ commercial ratings…

Broadcast News Does Something It Hasn’t Done in 10 Years

Big news in the world–including the killing of Osama bin Laden, the royal wedding and Japan’s disastrous earthquake and tsunami–translated to good news for the broadcast networks, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The networks accomplished something in the second quarter…

How Is MSNBC Doing in the Ratings Without Olbermann?

Ratings are in for MSNBC and the other cable news networks for the first full quarter since its highest-rated host, Keith Olbermann, abruptly left the network, reports the New York Times’ Media Decoder blog, and it appears that the channel…

War Between Sirius CEO Mel Karmazin and Howard Stern, Who Were Once Close. Says Stern’s Agent: ‘Karmazin has said that if he had been CEO at the time, he would have given Stern much less…but then Sirius would not have gotten Stern’

The Mel Karmazin/Howard Stern lovefest began decades ago, when Karmazin became a big booster of the shockjock after NBC radio fired him in 1985. But now it’s war between Karmazin and Stern, reports Deadline.com. According to the article, "[I]t’s getting personal in…

Former ESPN Personality to Stand Trial for Stalking, Assault

A judge has ruled that a former ESPN personality must stand trail on felony stalking and assault charges, reports the Los Angeles Times’ L.A. Now blog. Judge Mark Windham of Los Angeles Superior Court ruled Tuesday that there was enough…