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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.
MTV has greenlighted two spinoffs from its hit reality show “Jersey Shore,” with three of the show’s popular stars to be featured, Deadline.com reports. Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi and Jenni “JWoww” Farley will share the spotlight in one show, while Paul…
An executive known for working primarily in high-profile media positions most of her career has lost her latest gig, reports Crain’s New York Business. Cathie Black, well-known in media circles as the former chairman of Hearst Magazines and, earlier in her career,…
New York authorities have arrested two suspects in the shooting death of DJ Megatron, the New York Daily News reported. William Williams, 21, and Richard Cromwell, 20, were reportedly ID’d by video surveillance equipment at the scene of the killing…
The Fox Network announced that it is giving a freshman show–part of its “Animation Domination” Sunday night lineup–a second season, Deadline.com reports. The show is "Bob’s Burgers," which apparently has been compatible with "The Simpsons," "Family Guy" and "Cleveland Show"…
The Ovation network has acquired the rights to rebroadcast Fox’s "So You Think You Can Dance," reports The New York Times. Beginning in August 2011, Ovation will air the season six and season seven episodes of the competition reality series….
Christian Slater’s new Fox sitcom, “Breaking In,” opened to solid ratings Wednesday night, scoring a 3.5 average in adults 18-49 and 9.9 million total viewers, TVbytheNumbers.com reported. Of course, the show’s lead-in was “American Idol,” which dominated the night, as…
Simon Cowell’s upcoming Fox singing competition show “The X Factor’–which he has repeatedly said will not be like “American Idol”–has taken a step apparently designed to help distinguish it from “Idol,” revealing that the show will have two hosts, according…
Vince McMahon has been positioning his WWE empire as something more than a wrestling operation, and he just announced another step in that process, the Los Angeles Times reported. WWE is changing its name, sort of. WWE will no longer…
Dish Network has won court approval for its $320 million acquisition of Blockbuster following a bankruptcy auction, Bloomberg reported. “The proposed sale is fair and reasonable,” U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Burton Lifland said today in Manhattan, adding that the Dish offer…
Alec Baldwin caused a stir when he commented Wednesday that “30 Rock” would end its run after next season, as reported earlier. Now the actor appears to be doing his best to “unring that bell.” Baldwin provided a clarification of…