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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.
A frontrunner has already emerged to replace Joe Uva, the current president and CEO of Univision who, surprisingly, announced on Monday, March 14, 2011, that he is leaving the company in three weeks when his contract expires, according to Anthony…
Oscar nominee and Golden Globe winner Chloe Sevigny is working on a project with HBO that will turn the story of accused murderer Lizzie Borden into a four-hour miniseries, reports Deadline.com. Borden was acquitted in 1893 of killing her father…
It’s official: Michael Powell, the former chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, has been selected to run one of the cable industry’s most important organizations. Powell has been selected as the new president of the National Cable & Telecommunications Association, reports…
In order to get Richard Hatch back for the rest of the run of NBC’s "Celebrity Apprentice," host Donald Trump imight be willing to help pay off his IRS debt, reports People magazine. "On Monday, the Providence Journal reported that…
Demand for the just-released iPad 2 has been enormous, and Apple is taking longer than expected to fill orders. The wait time for a new iPad is now four to five weeks, PC Magazine reports. The device first went on…
The Emmy Award-winning producer and novelist Al Morgan, who served as the producer of NBC’s "Today" from 1961 until 1968, has died, reports The New York Times. Morgan died March 3 at his home in Brattleboro, Vt., the story says….
If football games are canceled next season, ESPN may be the TV network that is "least affected financially, despite its reliance on sports," according to Moody’s Investors Service in a report cited by The Hollywood Reporter. That’s because ESPN’s fans…
It surfaced today that well-respected syndication veteran Ed Wilson is part of the team that’s helping Katie Couric decide whether to do a syndication talk show in 2012. Separately, it was also reported today, Monday, March 14, 2011, that Twentieth,…
Comic Gilbert Gottfried, who has often pushed the envelope with his humor, pushed too hard in recent days and has lost his job as the voice of the Aflac duck, according to a number of media reports. Wrote EW.com’s Inside…
CNN and Fox News saw huge jumps in viewers and online visitors as people sought out coverage of the earthquake that has devastated parts of Japan, reports the Los Angeles Times’ ShowTracker blog. The story says CNN’s viewer numbers jumped…