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.

CW Announces 2011-2012 Prime-Time Schedule

May 19, 2011 (New York, New York) ─ The CW Network unveiled the schedule for its 2011-2012 season today at its annual upfront presentation for advertisers, affiliates and national media from Jazz at Lincoln Center. Electro hip-hop group LMFAO staged…

Oprah Gets Taken Down a Notch on Forbes’ Celebrity Power List–So Who Replaced Her at No. 1?

Oprah Winfrey lost her grip on the No. 1 spot on Forbes’ annual “Celebrity 100” power list, and the person who took her spot used social media, among other things, to rise to the top, Reuters reported. Moving into the…

Kutcher Opens Up as CBS’s New ‘Men’ Crew Debuts at Upfront

Ashton Kutcher had his public introduction today as a member of the “Two and a Half Men” cast, coming out on stage at CBS’s upfront presentation in New York and saying a few words about his new gig, Entertainment Weekly…

While Other Nets Overhaul Their Lineups, CBS Fine-Tunes

CBS, which presented its programming to advertisers at today’s upfront, is gently tweaking its lineup for fall, adding only five new shows and moving around a couple of favorites, Brian Steinberg writes in Advertising Age. The network will make a…

CBS Readies Just Five New Shows for Fall, Adds First-Run Episodes to Saturday Nights–Network Shifts ‘Good Wife’ and ‘CSI’ to Make Room for Freshman Offerings

By Brian SteinbergAdvertising Age CBS said it would shake up its schedule by moving two of its better-known shows to new berths in prime time next fall and would also test running original programming on Saturday night, a night the…

Wednesday Ratings: ‘The Voice’ Dips, but Still Powers NBC to a Win; Strong Finales for CBS’s ‘NCIS’

NBC got another strong performance from its breakout singing competition “The Voice,” scoring a narrow win in adults 18-49 for the night over CBS, which got good results from its two “NCIS” season finales, TVbytheNumbers.com reported. For the night, NBC…

New Deal With Turner Expands Dish Network Choices

Turner Broadcasting’s Cartoon Network, Adult Swim and TruTV will be available to Dish Network subscribers thanks to a new deal between the two companies, reports B&C. In a statement, Dave Shull, Dish senior vice president of programming, said, "Following on…