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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.
Former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has revealed that his next project is a TV show called “The Governator,” Entertainment Weekly reports. The show is an animated superhero series, for which Schwarzenegger will provide the voice of the title character. The…
How’s this for a potential series-ending spectacular? Oprah Winfrey wants to give Donald Trump a makeover–including tackling That Hair–as part of her final run of shows in syndication, reports the New York Post. Oprah’s people have reportedly contacted The Donald’s…
Tim Allen’s new ABC comedy pilot continues to add star power, Deadline.com reports. Earlier this week it was announced that Allen’s wife in the multicamera project from writer Jack Burditt would be played by Nancy Travis, and today word surfaced…
As the March 31 deadline loomed, Cox Communications and LIN TV reached a retransmission consent fight in principle, just five hours before the stations were set to go dark on Cox’s systems, reports Multichannel News. Terms of the deal weren’t…
NBC has inked a deal with a hugely popular TV star to do a hidden-camera prank show with a twist, Entertainment Weekly reports in its Inside TV blog. Unlike Ashton Kutcher’s popular “Punk’d,” this one will feature senior citizens pulling…
Fox juggernaut “American Idol” was off 5% from a week ago in the 18-49 demo Wednesday, but numbers for the two-hour show were still more than enough to push Fox to a big win for the night, TVbytheNumbers.com reported. Fox…
With the fifth season of AMC’s “Mad Men” delayed by a dispute over, among other things, how much advertising to include in the telecasts, Advertising Age’s Brian Steinberg examines the show’s business model to determine what’s really behind the disagreement…
For Major League Baseball’s Opening Day today, an advertiser is unlocking a paywall for rabid baseball fans. Advertising Age reports that Volvo is presenting free streaming games on Apple devices for one month. MLB Advanced Media announced that access to MLB.TV…
A frontrunner has emerged in the battle to land Katie Couric once her current CBS contract expires, B&C reports. And that frontrunner is … CBS, the report says. The current betting, says the story, is that Couric would do a daytime…
‘Mad Men’ creator and showrunner Matt Weiner has checked in with his version of his contact negotiations to continue with the show. Weiner has released statements to a fan blog about the show called Basket of Kisses. According to the…