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.

‘X Factor’ Signs Its Second Major Advertiser–So Whose Products Will We Probably Be Seeing on the Show?

Fox’s upcoming singing competition "X Factor" has signed its second major advertiser, and that advertiser can be expected to place products in the programming, reports Brian Steinberg in Advertising Age. The show signed General Motors as a larger sponsor, marking…

CBS’s Opening Bid for Upfront: 18% Price Hikes–Rival Networks Ignore Fox Deals, Move to Maximize Sellers’ Market

By Brian SteinbergAdvertising Age CBS is pushing against advertisers’ stance that they shouldn’t be paying solid double-digit increases for TV time in the fall. The Tiffany Network is making an initial request for price hikes around 18% in the cost…

Marketer Pulls Ads From Raunchy Anti-Gay Talk Show as Stations Drop Program

Amid a campaign by the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation and the National Hispanic Media Coalition, AT&T has dropped advertising from the talk show "Jose Luis Sin Censura," according to The Hollywood Reporter. Two stations–WSVN-TV in Miami and KCTU-TV…

Video: NBA Great Retires. He Had His Best Years–Three NBA Titles–With the Lakers

One of the legendary players of the National Basketball Association has announced his retirement. Having recently completed his 19th season in the league, Shaquille O’Neal, 39, who won three NBA championships with the Los Angeles Lakers, has decided to retire….

Lance Armstrong Demands On-Air Apology From CBS Over ’60 Minutes’ Drug Report

Seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong has sent a letter to Jeff Fager, CBS News chairman, demanding an on-air apology for the "60 Minutes" report in which another cyclist accused Armstrong of having used performance enhancing drugs while in…

NBC Talent Competitions Set Ratings Records; ABC Scores With NBA Finals

NBC got a shot in the ratings arm from Tuesday night’s two-hour season premiere of “America’s Got Talent” and a new installment of the network’s breakout singing competition “The Voice,” TVbytheNumbers.com reported. “Talent” had its most-watched season premiere ever with…

Exec Behind ’24,’ ‘Dark Angel’ and ‘Firefly’ Takes Key Programming Post With Syfy

Syfy announced today that it has appointed Scott Vila to the newly created position of vice president, current programming, scripted. Vila, who had a hand in water cooler hits “24,” “Dark Angel” and “Firefly,” will report to Erik Storey, senior…

Today’s Must-Read: Next Week Apple Will Introduce the iCloud. Check Out This Piece, ‘Will Apple Redefine the Cloud?’

As insiders chew on the implications of Apple’s sudden moves into the cloud computing space, tech writer Lance Ulanoff says in a piece in PCMag that Apple’s Steve Jobs has effectively claimed cloud technology–rapidly becoming known as iCloud–as his company’s…

NBC Fills Key Positions on New Brian Williams Prime-Time Newsmag

NBC has announced a pair of key personnel moves as it assembles the team for the upcoming prime-time newsmagazine being built around Brian Williams. Rome Hartman, a veteran BBC America executive producer, is leaving that network to join NBC as…

‘Grey’s Anatomy’ Star Backpedals After Indicating He’s Leaving Show

After a story in an Italian magazine in which Patrick Dempsey revealed that next season’s "Grey’s Anatomy" would be his last, the actor clarified his comment, saying that he isn’t necessarily leaving, according to E! Online. Dempsey’s press rep told…