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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.
CNN is considering a popular comedian who was a regular on “Saturday Night Live” and a former host of "Talk Soup" as possible hosts for its 7 p.m. time slot, reports the New York Post’s Page Six. The contenders are…
With the contracts of both Matt Lauer and Katie Couric soon to expire, the two had some fun bantering when Couric returned to the "Today" show this morning (Wednesday, April 13, 2011), and sat for an interview conducted by Lauer. Couric was on the…
A respected research analyst who follows Apple says "Apple’s push into the living room ‘is likely to include a new device,’ although he adds that he isn’t sure what it will be. ‘We would guess a TV or a new…
Viewership for the controversial miniseries "The Kennedys" peaked Sunday with the finale on ReelzChannel, when it was watched by 1.4 million viewers, reports Joe Adalian in New York Magazine’s Vulture blog. In the end, despite months of publicity leading up…
A federal appeals court upheld an earlier decision from a lower court that A&E Television Networks must pay about $4 million to real estate investor Richard Davis as a share in the profits from "Flip This House," reports the Los…
Even though the NFL is in a labor dispute between the owners and players, threatening the next football season, CBS has released its schedule for the 2011 preseason, reports the Los Angeles Times’ Show Tracker blog. The network did not…
BET has tapped a former star of The CW’s comedy "Girlfriends" to star in a new comedy called "Reed Between the Lines," reports the Los Angeles Times’ Show Tracker blog. Tracee Ellis Ross will star as a psychologist who gets…
File it under the heading "Why didn’t we think of this before?" Twenty years in, Comedy Central hosted its first awards telecast Sunday night, inaugurating its Comedy Awards even as its corporate cousins MTV, VH1, Nickelodeon, TV Land and Spike…
Univision Communications is considering starting three new cable channels and is talking with pay-TV operators, reports Bloomberg. Univision wants to debut a network dedicated to telenovelas later this year; a sports-focused channel in 2012; and a potential 24-hour news network,…
ABC Family has greenlighted its fifth original scripted series this year, according to The Hollywood Reporter’s the Live Feed blog. The show is "Jane by Design," which was formerly called "What Would Jane Do." The show focuses on a 16-year…