Chuck Ross

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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.

NBC May Drop Olympics, Other Sports as New Boss Signals Belt-Tightening

Steve Burke, the new CEO of NBC Universal, indicated in the latest Comcast earnings announcement that the future of the new Comcast subsidiary will include cost-cutting that may mean NBC will no longer broadcast the Olympics, reports StudioBriefing.net. Burke commented…

CBS Faces Questions About Its Handling of Assault on Lara Logan–Did Network Try to Suppress the Story? And Why Did CNN Blur Faces of Men in Logan Photo?

CBS is under scrutiny over its handling of the story of an attack on its correspondent Lara Logan, who was sexually assaulted Feb. 11 by a mob while covering the fall of Hosni Mubarak in Cairo. The network is being…

Two ‘Glee’ Stars Land Spots in White House Concert Event

Two cast members from Fox’s hit musical series "Glee" have been invited to join a high-profile event set to take place at the White House, reports TVLine.com. Mark Salling and Amber Riley, also known as Puckerman and Mercedes on “Glee,”…

Former Teen Heartthrob Sentenced After Plea in DUI Case

The former star of a popular family TV show, an ex-teen heartthrob and recording artist, entered a plea of no contest Wednesday to a charge of driving under the influence, the AP reported. Former "Partridge Family" star David Cassidy will…

Letterman Takes the Blame for Lohan Mixup

David Letterman apologized on his show Wednesday night to Lindsay Lohan and her family, taking the blame for a mixup in which it was announced that Lohan would present a Top 10 List on the show while Lohan herself had…

Pay TV Service, a Joint Venture of Paramount, MGM and Lionsgate, Lands Its First Live Sports Event–a Heavyweight Title Fight

The upcoming heavyweight championship boxing match in Germany will be carried to U.S. TV viewers via a pay TV service that is owned by Paramount Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and Lionsgate, B&C reports. The March 19 fight between Vitali Klitschko and…

‘Survivor’ Premieres With a Whimper, Can’t Touch ‘Idol’ in Wednesday Ratings

Fox’s "American Idol" maintained a comfortable lead in the Wednesday night Nielsen ratings race, unfazed by the premiere of CBS’s latest installment of "Survivor," reports TVbytheNumbers.com. The “Survivor” premiere was not just the show’s lowest-rated season premiere ever in the…

Another U.S. Journalist Attacked in Middle East–This Time It’s An ABC News Correspondent

There’s been yet another case of an American journalist being attacked while covering the turmoil in the Middle East, reports The New York Times’ Media Decoder blog. ABC News correspondent Miguel Marquez was beaten on Wednesday while covering protests in…

Obama Demands Roundup of Lara Logan’s Attackers

President Barack Obama is demanding justice from the Egyptian government in the attack on CBS News correspondent Lara Logan, the New York Post reports. The White House has told the Egyptian government it wants the men who attacked Logan to…

Tech Commentator: Watson Won on ‘Jeopardy!’ Because the Exhibition ‘was set up in a blatantly unfair way to favor the computer.’ Also, He Says About IBM’s Watson–Which Trounced Its Human Opponents–‘All very rudimentary work for a computer’

While many of us may be impressed at the trouncing IBM’s supercomputer Watson gave to "Jeopardy!" champs Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter this week, the director of the Government Computer News (GCN) labs was unimpressed. Writing today, Feb. 17, 2011 on GCN’s…