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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.
With bids for Olympic television rights due next month, NBC Universal’s Olympics chief Dick Ebersol is trying to convince his new bosses at Comcast to pony up for rights to air the 2014 and 2016 Olympic games, reports the New…
One of the stars of HBO’s "True Blood" walked away from a 360-degree flip in a racetrack accident Friday, reports the Long Beach, Calif., Press-Telegram. Stephen Moyer, who plays Bill Compton in “True Blood,” was competing in a qualifying session…
CBS has awarded Chief Executive Leslie Moonves one of the richest pay packages in corporate America, reports the Los Angeles Times’ Company Town blog. His package for 2010 totaled $57.7 million, according to the story. Moonves, 61, was paid $3.5…
Cable advertising will rise 10.8% this year, making it one of the fastest-growing media segments and far outpacing broadcast television’s expected 2.4% ad growth, reports B&C, citing a report from media agency Magna Global. "Increasingly, large advertisers with reach and…
The casting department at Fox is getting a reorganization, after two high-level executives said Friday they plan to step down, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Marcia Shulman, who has been at Fox for 11 years, is leaving her post as…
Robert MacNeil–the “MacNeil” in PBS’s long-running “MacNeil/Lehrer Report”–will return to “PBS NewsHour” for the first time since he retired in 1995 as a co-anchor of the show, reports TVNewser.com. MacNeil will report on the six-part "Autism Now," a comprehensive look…
BET has renewed one comedy series and is expected to renew another one that has been paired with it, Deadline.com reported. The cable channel renewed “The Game” and expected to renew freshman comedy "Let’s Stay Together," according to the story….
AMC, the home of "Mad Men," is going to air a reality show giving a behind-the-scenes look at what goes on at advertising agencies in their quest to find iconic taglines, reports the Los Angeles Times’ ShowTracker blog. Called "The…
NBC’s popular show "The Apprentice" may be at stake if host Donald Trump decides to run for president, because of network concerns that other candidates could request equal airtime, Bill Carter and Brian Stelter report in The New York Times….
HBO has given the green light to a series starring one of the former stars of the sitcom hit "Seinfeld,’ our friend Nellie Andreeva reports for Deadline.com. According to the article. "Julia Louis-Dreyfus is returning to primetime, this time on…