Chuck Ross

Author Page

38,865 Entries

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 Chief Legal Analyst Plans to Switch Networks

NBC chief legal analyst Dan Abrams plans to jump to a rival network, reports the New York Post. The story says that ABC is offering Abrams a job as a legal analyst on "Good Morning America" and the chance to…

AT&T Rebrands Its VOD Service as It Battles Netflix, Redbox

AT&T, positioning itself against rental competitors Netflix and Redbox, is rebranding its video-on-demand service as "U-verse Movies" to stress the availability of new releases, reports Multichannel News. The service previously had been branded U-verse On Demand, the article notes. The…

Golden Globes Will Go On Despite Lawsuit, Says Hollywood Foreign Press Association

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association is saying not to worry about what its lawyers told a judge last week in the United States District Court for the Central District of California about next year’s Golden Globes being in jeopardy, reports…

‘Spartacus’ Prequel Looks Like a Hit for Starz, With Big Jump in Viewers for Premiere

"Spartacus: Gods of the Arena" premiered to almost 1.1 million viewers on Starz, marking a 66% jump from the debut for the network’s bloody gladiator drama "Spartacus: Blood and Sand," reports TVbytheNumbers.com. "Spartacus: Blood and Sand" drew 659,000 viewers when…

Super Bowl Advertisers Going the Sweepstakes Route, Giving Away Cars; Plus: Free Pizza If the Game Goes Into OT

More advertisers are launching sweepstakes offers in connection with their Super Bowl advertising buys as a way of engaging fans, reports The New York Times’ Media Decoder blog. BMW and Mercedes-Benz are planning giveaways, with BMW offering a two-year lease…

Celebrity Attorney Gloria Allred Gets a Court Show

Entertainment Studios, a producer of syndicated programming for television stations, said it’s working with celebrity attorney Gloria Allred on a TV program called "We the People With Gloria Allred." Allred said in a statement issued by Entertainment Studios that she…

Microsoft Files Trade Complaint Against TiVo

Microsoft has filed a U.S. trade complaint seeking to keep TiVo from importing television set-top boxes from Mexico, reports Bloomberg News. The claim is based on patent infringement. The four patents in the case involve program schedules and selection, a…

New Reality Show Focuses on Wives, Girlfriends of Polo Stars

The Discovery Channel is shooting a show that will follow the girlfriends and wives of several well-known Palm Beach polo players, reports the New York Post’s Page Six. Called "Palm Beach Polo Girls," the show tracks Brandon Phillips’ wife, Erica,…

KCET Sees Hefty Drop in Ratings After Split From PBS

Without its PBS affiliation, KCET-TV’s prime-time ratings have suffered, the Los Angeles Times’ ShowTracker blog reports. The station’s prime-time viewership is down 38% in the first three weeks of January compared with the same weeks a year earlier, according to…

Jeff Zucker, Who Leaves NBC Universal This Friday, Does Exit Interview at NATPE, Praises Olbermann

Jeff Zucker, the outgoing CEO of NBC Universal who leaves the company this Friday, Jan. 28, 2011, had an exit interview today in Miami at the annunal NATPE connvention, reports Alex Ben Block in The Hollywood Reporter. According to the…