Chuck Ross

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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.

VH1 Shooting Reality Show Focused on Wrestlers’ Wives

VH1 has a new reality show in the works, a takeoff on "Basketball Wives" set in the world of professional wrestling, reports TMZ.com. "Wrestler Wives" will feature the women involved with WWE pros and center on the Booker T wrestling…

CBS’s ‘Academy of Country Music Awards’ Broadcast Rules Sunday Ratings

CBS easily won the Sunday night ratings, getting a strong performance from the “Academy of Country Music Awards,” TVbytheNumbers.com reported. CBS averaged a 2.9 rating for the night in the 18-49 demo, topping ABC (2.2 average), NBC (2.1) and Fox…

WICT Taking Applications for Betsy Magness Leadership Institute

Women in Cable Telecommunications has announced that applications for the Betsy Magness Leadership Institute’s Classes XXIV and XXV are being accepted through May 13, 2011. The institute is named in honor of Betsy Magness, who helped build TCI into a…

CBS Matches Last Year’s Numbers for ‘March Madness’ Semifinal Basketball Games

Saturday’s CBS coverage of the two semifinal games in the “March Madness” NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament attracted about the same viewership as last year’s games, TV Guide reported. The two games averaged 15.4 million total viewers. Mike Aresco, CBS Sports…

Guest Blog: You Are There, as Charlie Sheen Implodes in Motown

[Editor’s Note: Bill Shea is the Enterprise Editor of Crain’s Detroit Business and as a reporter also covers entertainment and media. He also writes a blog for Crain’s Detroit Business, and it was on that blog where this piece first…

Charlie Sheen Booed in Detroit, Cheered in Chicago. Plus, You Are There at Sheen’s Detroit Show–an Eyewitness Account as Sheen Violently Torpedoes Himself

Charlie Sheen’s “Violent Torpedo of Truth” tour got off to a disastrous start Saturday night in Detroit, where the former “Two and a Half Men” star was heckled and loudly booed virtually from start to finish, according to The Detroit…

Katie Couric Reportedly Leaving ‘CBS Evening News’

Less than five years after she became the first sole woman to anchor a network evening newscast, Katie Couric is leaving her job at "CBS Evening News," reports the Associated Press. Couric is expected to debut a syndicated talk show…

ESPN Announces Name for New Network

ESPN has finally announced the name for its new Texas-based network. The network, which, as previously announced, will cover the University of Texas with a network on-air 24 hours a day, will be called the "Longhorn Network." The longhorn is a breed…

Another TV Station in a Top 20 Market Leaving PBS

Another public television station in a top 20 market is leaving the PBS fold, reports Elizabeth Jensen in The New York Times’ Media Decoder blog. The station is WMFE-TV in Orlando, Fla., which is being purshased by an undisclosed buyer….

Appearance by Snooki at Rutgers–With $32,000 Price Tag–Angers Parents of Students

Parents of Rutgers students are upset over the decision to pay $32,000 to Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi for a visit to the New Jersey university, reports the New York Post. About 2,000 students attended the "Jersey Shore" star’s Thursday night discussions,…