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.

Social Media Is a Venue, Not a Strategy: Kutcher and Sheen Have Identical Social ‘Strategy,’ But Only One Is Winning

Antony YoungSpecial to Advertising Age Barely a day goes past when social media doesn’t grab a headline. Marketers eager to join the social-media surge have been challenging their agencies to rethink how they communicate their brands in this more participative…

Popular Podcast Host Has TV Show in the Works, With Ed Asner, Ken Jeong in Pilot

The host of a popular podcast has created a pilot presentation for a television show based on his life, reports New York Magazine’s Vulture blog. Comedian Marc Maron announced plans for the show on his podcast “WTF,” according to the…

TV Station Going Independent After Fox Pulls Affiliation

After Fox said in May it would give its network affiliation to another station in the No. 113 market, the former Fox station says it now plans to become independent, reports B&C. The station is KTRV-TV in Boise, Idaho, which…

Mobile TV Advertising to Reach $1.4 Billion by 2015, PricewaterhouseCoopers Projects; Tablets and Smartphones to Fuel Digital Growth for Newspapers and TV

By Nat IvesAdvertising Age Magazines may be the media sector most visibly jumping into tablet computers like the iPad, but tablets will affect other major media as well. Tablets are poised to help U.S. newspapers increase paid digital circulation to…

Longtime ‘CSI’ Star Arrested

A longtime regular on CBS’s "CSI" was arrested in Los Angeles earlier this week after reportedly driving his car into several parked vehicles in the early morning hours, reports E! Online. Actor Gary Dourdan, who played Warrick Brown on the…

McGraw-Hill Puts TV Stations Up for Sale

McGraw-Hill has announced that it wants to divest its broadcasting group and has retained Morgan Stanley to make that happen, B&C reported. The company said in a statement that its four stations "are in desirable markets and should be attractive…

Time Warner Chief Proposes Sweeping Solution to Online Streaming Debate

Speaking today at Cable Show 2011 in Chicago, Time Warner Chairman and CEO Jeff Bewkes proposed a simple solution to current content and distribution issues: Make all content available on all devices, all the time, Multichannel News reported. Bewkes has…

Brillstein TV President Peter Traugott Jumps to Universal

The former president of television for Brillstein Entertainment Partners, Peter Traugott, got an offer he couldn’t refuse and has jumped to Universal Media Studios, reports TheWrap.com. Traugott said in a statement that the lure of working with NBC Entertainment Chairman…

Monday Ratings: ABC Prevails as Reality Shows Top Stanley Cup

ABC’s reality lineup–two hours of “The Bachelorette” and an hour of “Extreme Makeover: Weight Loss Edition’–was strong enough to beat NBC’s Stanley Cup Finals, Game 6, on a night when the other networks aired mostly repeat programming, TVbytheNumbers.com reported. ABC…

‘Game of Thrones’ Star Stabbed in Bar Fight

One of the stars of HBO’s "Game of Thrones" was stabbed in a bar fight in North London last weekend, reports the Daily Mail. The injuries were superficial and the actor, Sean Bean, refused to go to the hospital. His…