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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.
The big syndication winners in the February sweeps were Twentieth’s "Family Guy," Warner Bros.’ "TMZ" and CBS Television Distribution’s "Jeopardy!", with the latter being helped by the computer-versus-human battle created by IBM’s Watson, reports B&C. "Family Guy" jumped 25%, with…
NBC has ordered anohter round of one of its late night shows. "Last Call with Carson Daly" has been renewed for the 2011-12 season, reports EW.com’s Inside TV blog. he show airs weeknights from 1:35 a.m. to 2:05 a.m., the story…
Here are more syndication ratings from the February sweeps, courtesy our friend Paige Albiniak at B&C. Because last year in February the Olympics were going on, B&C made comparisons to November instead. According to the article, "Court was mostly steady…
"Google Inc. plans to start testing a mobile-payment service at stores in New York and San Francisco within four months, letting shoppers use their phones to ring up purchases, three people familiar with the project said, Bloomberg reports. The story added,…
If the National Football League cancels the 2011 season, DirecTV stands to lose out on up to $750 million in revenue, reports Bloomberg, citing analysts’ estimates. The largest U.S. satellite-TV provider brought in between $600 million to $750 million in…
Golden Globe winner Madeleine Stowe will co-star in and ABC pilot, reports Deadline.com. Stowe will play Victoria Grayson, in "ABC’s "Revenge," an updated take on the classic novel "The Count of Monte Cristo." Stowe’s character is the matriarch of the family who masterminded…
CNN has continued to draw viewers with its coverage of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan, reports the New York Times’ Media Decoder blog. The story says that Friday’s audience for the total day, 2.27 million, was CNN’s biggest draw…
Comedian Gilbert Gottfried, who was fired Monday as the voice of the Aflac duck, apologized today for Twitter jokes about the disastrous earthquake and tsunami in Japan, according to The Hollywood Reporter. "I sincerely apologize to anyone who was offended…
A former producer of CBS’s "Survivor," who has been accused of killing his wife while on vacation in Cancun, may be tried for the crime in Mexico, reports the AP. The producer is Bruce Beresford-Redman. "The U.S. Department of Justice…
A Golden Globe-winning, Emmy-nominated star of HBO’s old "Six Feet Under" series is joining Jenna Elfman to star in the ABC comedy pilot "Bad Mom," reports Deadline.com. Frances Conroy, who played Ruth O’Connor Fisher Sibley on "Six Feet Under," will…