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Chuck Ross

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.

Veteran Actor Dies — He Had a Good Run as a TV Star in the ’60s and ’70s

An actor best known for starring in three television series from 1967 to 1974 has died. Wayne Maunder, who starred as Scott Lancer on the CBS Western series “Lancer” from 1968-1970, died Nov. 11, according to media reports. He was…

Special TVWeek Holiday Schedule for the Thanksgiving Weekend

TVWeek will have a special schedule in celebration of the Thanksgiving holiday. We will be putting out our regular mailings today, Wednesday, Nov. 21, 2018, and will be closed Thursday, Friday and through the weekend. We will be back on…

Trump Says He May Attend the White House Correspondents’ Dinner — But He May Be Disappointed

Encouraged by the decision by the White House Correspondents’ Association to scrap the tradition of having a comedian host the annual Correspondents’ Dinner next year, Donald Trump hinted that he may attend the event. Trump skipped the first two of…

One College Team Is a Big Draw for NBC

NBC is bringing in extra viewers thanks to a college team that’s having a good year. The network announced that its 2018 coverage of Notre Dame football is averaging 3.491 million viewers, up 40% over the 2017 season and NBC’s…

TV One Launches New Entertainment Network CLEO TV on January 19, 2019

Press release from TV One, Nov. 20, 2018: This January, TV One will launch CLEO TV, a new aspirational lifestyle and entertainment cable network targeting Millennial and Gen X women of color. Derived from the name Cleopatra, one of the…

One of the Quirkiest TV Hits Ever on Path For Revival (Hint: ‘Moose burger or caribou dog?’)

“CBS is in the very early stages of development on a revival of the mid-1990s” dramedy “Northern Exposure,” reports our good friend Joe Adalian on Vulture.com. Series star Rob Morrow will be “onboard to reprise his Emmy-nominated role as Dr….

Lou Dobbs on Fox: ‘Isn’t there a time where you have to tell a District Court judge to go to Hell?’

On Monday night Lou Dobbs, the host of “Lou Dobbs Tonight” on the Fox Business Network, said, “Let’s be honest. “Isn’t there a time where you have to tell a District Court judge to go to Hell? … That was…

Report: Megyn Kelly and NBC Close to Finalizing Settlement

Megyn Kelly and NBC are said to be close to a settlement deal valued at $30 million. The New York Post’s Page Six reports that the deal will pay Kelly the full value of the time remaining on her three-year…

Sign of the Times: Venerable 80-Year-Old Magazine — With Nearly 2 Million Print Subscribers — Is Going Online Only

A magazine that has been a fixture at newsstands and supermarket checkout aisles is shutting down its print edition and going online-only. Financial Times reports that Conde Nast has made the decision to end the print edition of Glamour. Samantha…

Report: Amazon Bids for Disney’s 22 Regional Sports Networks

Amazon is submitting a bid for all 22 of the regional sports television networks that The Walt Disney Co. recently acquired from 21st Century Fox, according to a report by CNBC. Other bidders for the networks include Apollo Global Management,…