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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.
Hyro-gliff, a company linked to Charlie Sheen, has filed applications to trademark 22 catchphrases uttered by the former "Two and a Half Men" star during his media campaign last month, reports RadarOnline.com. The phrases include "Duh, Winning," "Tiger Blood," and…
Efforts to find a replacement for Charlie Sheen on "Two and a Half Men" may be dead, and co-star Jon Cryer may be looking for a new job, reports AOL’s PopEater, in its Naughty but Nice blog. Cryer is currently…
Last week Univision attracted more prime-time viewers than NBC, marking the second time in four weeks that the Spanish-language network beat one of the top English-speaking broadcast networks, reports the Los Angeles Times’ Company Town blog. The results may reflect…
In a first-ever, milestone deal, Netflix has bought the syndication rights to the AMC cult/critical favorite "Mad Men," reports the Los Angeles Times Company Town blog. The series has also won multiple Emmys, including Best Drama. According to the article,…
An investigative TV journalist who was with ABC News and is now with CBS News denied a report that he was an informant for the FBI when he was with ABC, The New York Times reports. According to the article,…
CBS Sports and Turner Sports have reported ratings for the combined NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament coverage on CBS, TBS, TNT and truTV, declaring that the tournament was the most-watched since 2005. “March Madness” coverage averaged 10.2 million total viewers, with…
Former CNN stalwart Larry King, who recently vacated his seat as the cable news channel’s 9 p.m. host, will be making a return to television, reports TVNewser.com. King has been tapped to interview Tavis Smiley on PBS this week. The…
If one is to believe all that one reads, it seems clear that Katie Couric may become a daytime talk show host once she ends her contract–in June–as the anchor of the "CBS Evening News." TVWeek Open Mic blogger Chuck…
Twentieth Television announced today that its animated sitcom “Futurama” has been sold in 90% of the U.S. market for its broadcast premiere as a syndicated weekend show, set for September 2011. Among the major station groups that are on board…
Discovery announced today that it has rebranded one of its channels, complete with a snazzy new morphing logo, TheWrap.com reports. The channel is Science Channel, which will now be known simply as Science. The new logo is called Morph. Effective…