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.

A TVWeek Public Service: Given the Tough Winter, We Thought You’d Like To Know What Punxsutawney Phil, the Groundhog, Had to Say Today, the 125th Groundhog Day (In case you don’t like Phil’s prediction, we’ve included a clip from the Bill Murray version)

Bill Murray version:

If the Piers Morgan We See on CNN Were a Contestant on ‘America’s Got Talent’ He’d Probably Have to Interrupt Himself With the Buzzer and Get the Big Red X. That’s Because His Ratings on CNN Are Now No Better Than Larry King’s, Whom He Replaced

Piers Morgan’s interview show on CNN last week finished third with an average of 978,000 viewers; almost identical ratings compared with the ratings Larry King was getting in the time slot a year earlier, writes Deadline.com’s Nellie Andreeva in a piece entitled "CNN Hires…

Report: Martin Sheen and Wife Trying Desperately To Gain Control Over Son Charlie’s Life So They Can Help Him

"Charlie Sheen’s family is growing increasingly concerned about his well being, and is quietly discussing going to court to gain conservatorship over him," says RadarOnline.com in an exclusive report. According to the article, "A source tells us: ‘Charlie looks awful… he…

Not About TV, But the Most Incredible Story of the Day: Dogs Really ARE Our Best Friends. Study Shows Dogs Can Be A Great Tool in Detecting Colon Cancer in Humans! You Gotta Read This!

"Researchers from Kyushu University and colleagues report that a specially trained 8-year-old female Labrador retriever named Marine is able to detect colorectal cancer among patients with up to 98 percent accuracy, reports Bloomberg BusinessWeek. We’ll summarize this for you, put…

With January Ratings Plunge, Question Arises as to Whether Glenn Beck Is Losing His Touch

A January ratings plunge for Glenn Beck’s show on Fox News leads to the question of whether the talk show host is losing his popularity, writes Nellie Andreeva at Deadline.com. "Glenn Beck" averaged 1.8 million viewers in January, representing a…

With the Weather So Bad in Much of the Country, The Weather Channel Shatters Records

WIth the weather so bad in so much of the U.S., on Monday, Jan. 31, 2011, "The Weather Channel (TWC) set a new one day digital record and plans the most live coverage ever in the network’s history," TWC announced. The…

Whoa! Is Russell of ‘Survivor’ Fame a Much Bigger Villain Than We Thought? We Know He Was Playing the Other Players. Was He Also Playing Mark Burnett and the Producers of the Show?

Jim Early, a blogger who was sued last year by "Survivor" producer Mark Burnett and CBS, alleges his source for leaking secret information about the show was "Survivor" villain Russell Hantz, the New York Post reports. "Survivor" cast members must…