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.

Report: Apple Paying Music Labels Up to $150 Million to Kick Off iCloud Service

"Apple will fork over between $100 million and $150 million in advance payments to the four major music labels in order to get its iCloud off the ground, three separate sources told The Post," reports our good friend Claire Atkinson…

DirecTV Says It Won’t Charge for NFL Package Until Labor Issues Are Resolved

DirecTV told its NFL Sunday Ticket subscribers that it’s offering to take some of the risk out of the next football season, which is in question because of a labor dispute, reports B&C. DirecTV said it won’t charge customers until…

Disney.com Website Getting an Overhaul to Deliver Content Directly to Consumers

Disney.com will soon be overhauled to provide television shows, games and movies diectly to consumers, Disney President and CEO Rogert Iger said Thursday at a digital conference, reports the Los Angeles Times’ Company Town blog. Entertainment will be available through…

Fox Completes Upfront, Secures $1.98B to $1.99B in Commitments–Advertiser Appetites Whetted by ‘X Factor,’ ‘New Girl’

By Brian SteinbergAdvertising Age News Corp.’s Fox said Thursday it has completed the bulk of its sales for the upfront marketplace, with advertiser interest in the network’s fall schedule fueled in large part by the much-anticipated U.S. launch of "X…

Focus on Laughs at 36th Gracie Awards

The Alliance for Women in Media presented the 36th annual Gracie Awards recently in Beverly Hills, and TVWeek Open Mic blogger Hillary Atkin says the event would have made its namesake, Gracie Allen, proud. Click here to read Atkin’s account…

Glenn Beck Gets Date for His Farewell Fox News Show

Fox News host Glenn Beck has a date for the final episode of his show, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The last day the show will air is June 30, the story says. While Beck said in April that he…

New TNT Legal Dramedy Opens With a Thud

The new TNT legal dramedy "Franklin & Bash" debuted with soft ratings Wednesday night, drawing 2.7 million viewers for its premiere, reports Deadline.com. That’s lower than the debuts of other recent TNT series, including "Rizzoli & Isles," which premiered with…

Quick: What TV Show Had Contestants Eating The Grossest Bugs? That’s Right, ‘Fear Factor.’ NBC is Reviving This Once Reviled and Popular Show

NBC has ordered 10 new episodes of "Fear Factor," which was originally on the network from 2001 to 2006, according to a number of media reports. The story was first reported on Thursday, June 2, 2011 when a casting notice…

More Details About Next Week’s Apple iCloud Service Announcement. Speculation that the Service Might Be Free to Begin and Then $25 a Year

The Apple Insider, culling articles by other pubs, writes that Apple’s iCloud service might start out for free and then be $25 a year. The idea behind iCloud is that users would store their music, movies and TV shows on…

Solve This Real Mystery: Perhaps You Know Who Took These Pictures of Marilyn Monroe in L.A. in the Early 1950s

A $2 folder of negatives purchased at a garage sale in 1980 has yielded a treasure trove of never-before-seen photos of a young Marilyn Monroe–and raised questions about who took them and what they were for, CNN.com reported. The site…