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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.
Katie Couric is considering jumping to ABC after her “CBS Evening News” contract expires in the next couple of weeks, Bloomberg reports. The 54-year-old anchor is expected to announce later this week that she is leaving “Evening News.” The insiders…
One by one, celebrities who have expressed frustration with Donald Trump’s birther campaign have become targets of the “Celebrity Apprentice” host’s acid tongue. Whoopi Goldberg and Jerry Seinfeld, among others, have found themselves on the bad side of the would-be…
The media has ramped up the coverage of this week’s royal wedding between Prince William and Kate Middleton, but most of America doesn’t care, reports The New York Times. According to a New York Times/CBS News poll, just 6% said…
A veteran showrunner and multiple Emmy-winning director has joined FX’s flagship drama to both executive produce and direct, reports Deadline.com. Paris Barclay is making the move to "Sons of Anarchy" after spending the past three seasons as executive producer and…
One of the most charismatic stars of CBS’s long-running "Survivor" franchise has snagged a new reality show, People magazine reports. Rob Mariano, better known as Boston Rob, has a show on the History Channel called "Around the World in 80…
NBC’s “Celebrity Apprentice” was up 12% from a week ago in the 18-49 demo Sunday night, TVbytheNumbers.com reported, perhaps helped by the recent media campaign by its host, Donald Trump. For the night overall, the ratings crown was a split…
America’s hottest magazine–topping the list of the industry’s most successful and influential magazines over the past year, according to Adweek–is Food Network Magazine. The rankings are based on a mix of financial measurements and influence stats derived from media profile,…
A film critic known for his stint at The New York Times as well as his dreadlocks has been dropped by Movieline, his latest employer, after just three months, reports TheWrap.com. The critic is Elvis Mitchell, and the latest news…
The man who developed the compact disc and helped Sony expand into a media, entertainment and software leader, Norio Ohga, died Saturday, April 23, at the age of 81, according to The Hollywood Reporter. When Sony purchased Columbia Pictures in…
NBC has canceled a prime-time show whose performance has been so poor that it stood out even with almost the entire network lineup performing poorly–and it only took two episodes for NBC to pull the plug, reports the Futon Critic….