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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.
Lara Spencer, co-anchor of the syndicated entertainment news show "The Insider," is returning to ABC’s "Good Morning America" after an absence of seven years, reports TVNewser.com. Spencer will be the lifestyle anchor for "GMA," covering such topics as family, health,…
Fox’s “American Idol” continued to dip in the ratings, down 9% Wednesday in the 18-49 demo from a week ago and also down 9% from the comparable episode last season, TVbytheNumbers.com reported. But its numbers were still easily strong enough…
A cup-ple things didn’t seem right on-air at WLNE, the ABC affiliate in Providence, Rhode Island, on Tuesday night, March 15, 2011, at 7 p.m. The station’s 7 p.m. newscast wasn’t on. Instead, WLNE ran an infomercial for the Genie…
The album ranked the 25th greatest of all time by Rolling Stone magazine will get the "Glee" treatment in a future episode, reports TVLine.com. It was an album full of dreams. It made loving fun, Later, members of the band…
College-bound kids were startled by an essay prompt in the SAT administered last Saturday, March 12, 2011, which asked them to write about reality television, reports The New York Times. The problem, according to the piece, is that some students…
Viacom and Discovery Communications are among the cable-network companies who are disputing Time Warner Cable’s right to stream their programming through its new iPad app, saying the cable operator doesn’t have the right with its existing contracts, reports the New…
"Total advertising expenditures increased 6.5 percent in 2010 and finished the year at $131.1 billion. … Ad spending during the fourth quarter of 2010 was up 7.0 percent versus last year, propelled by the long-tail of small advertisers outside the…
CBS’ comedy pilot "Vince Uncensored," which stars Michael Chiklis, will be directed by a sitcom acting veteran, reports Deadline.com. The director of the pilot will be Kelsey Grammer. While Grammer is known for his TV roles on "Frasier" and "Cheers," he…
The USA Network has named two executives as co-presidents of the cable channel, reports The Hollywood Reporter. The two are Jeff Wachtel and Chris McCumber, promoted from head of original programming, and chief of marketing and brand strategy, respectively. According to…
It’s been the battle of the soda giants: Coca Cola ("The Pause That Refreshes" in an old slogan) Vs. Pepsi ("For Those Who Think Young" in an old slogan) to be one of the sponsor’s of Simon Cowell’s upcoming "The…