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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.
"The premise behind iCloud is simple but powerful: All your information is automatically kept up to date and synchronized across all the devices you own — PCs, Macs, the iPad and the iPhone." So writes Edward C. Baig at USA…
With plans for Katie Couric’s new ABC Daytime talk show becoming official this week, programmers are examining how to shuffle things around in the afternoon to make room for Couric. Something will have to give, and one obvious target is…
Tina Fey, the comedian who drew raves for her impersonation of former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin on “Saturday Night Live,” was mistakenly shown as Palin during a Fox News segment, reports Mediaite.com. The mistake is especially notable given that Palin…
Bidding has begun for the TV rights for the next four Olympics–starting with the Winter Games in Russion in 2014, reports our longtime friend Richard Sandomir in The New York Times. Fox Sports began the auction by offering to buy the rights for…
"Glenn Beck is planning to charge his fans a monthly subscription for his daily talk show online starting this summer, as he makes the move from being a Fox News host to the owner of his own Internet network," writes…
Another "Glee" star has signed a record deal, following in the footsteps of co-stars Matthew Morrison and Mark Salling, both of whom have released solo albums, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Naya Rivera, who plays the scheming Santana on “Glee,”…
The telecast of the MTV Movie Awards always seems to push the envelope, and this year’s edition–with its share of raunchy moments–was no exception.Find out whose envelope pushing worked and whose missed the mark in this analysis from TVWeek Open…
An informal poll of television executives and consultants finds that most have a ho-hum attitude about Katie Couric’s planned ABC daytime show, reports B&C. Several mentioned Jane Pauley, another former "Today" host who ventured into daytime television, with rocky results…
A cable reality show focused on bargain hunting will be back for a second season, reports EW.com’s Inside TV blog. The cable network TLC announced that it has renewed "Extreme Couponing." The show, which tracks people as they save large…
Los Angeles CBS affiliate KCBS-TV posted the North American itinerary for Britain’s Prince William and Kate Middleton, a scoop that was later taken down because of security issues, according to The Hollywood Reporter. A station spokesman said the outlet had…