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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 ratings are in for Week 1 of Oprah Winfrey’s OWN Network, which launched New Year’s Day. The Hollywood Reporter says that, according to final ratings, the network cumulatively drew 18.5 million viewers during its premiere week, which ended Jan….
The ESPN broadcast of the BCS National Championship kept the networks from aggressively going after the prime-time Nielsen ratings, according to TVbytheNumbers.com. ABC counterprogrammed its Disney corporate cousin ESPN with original episodes of “The Bachelor” and “Castle” and came away…
ESPN’s telecast Monday night of the Tostitos BCS National Championship college football game, in which the Auburn Tigers won the title by defeating the Oregon Ducks, is the most-watched cable show ever, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The game attracted…
The Fox live-action sitcom "Raising Hope" has been given a second-season renewal by the network, reports Deadline.com. This is the first new 2010 show to get a second-season pickup. The announcement about the Greg Garcia comedy was made Tuesday morning…
The consensus “feel-good story of the year,” about homeless man Ted Williams being discovered on the streets and springboarding into a broadcasting career, has hit a speedbump, reports the AP. According to L.A. police, Williams and his daughter got into…
After Saturday’s shooting in Arizona, which left six people dead and U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords among the wounded, Fox News chief Roger Ailes asked the cable network’s staff to "tone it down" and ditch the "bombast," reports GlobalGrind.com, a site…
In the wake of Saturday’s deadly shooting in Arizona, U.S. Rep. Jim Clyburn, the third-ranking Democrat in Congress, has called for a reassessment of the parameters of free speech, reports The Post and Courier in Charleston, S.C. Clyburn said he…
After a miniseries about the Kennedy family was pulled from the History Channel, Michael Prupas, the chief executive of Muse Entertainment, which produced the miniseries, said several U.S. networks have expressed interest in the program, reports The New York Times’…
The show in question is "Don’t Trust the Bitch in Apt. 23," a pilot written by former "American Dad!" writer and producer David Hemingson and current "Dad" executive producer Nahnatchka Khan. Deadline.com says it’s close to getting picked up by ABC….
Richard Hatch, the first winner of CBS’s reality TV hit "Survivor," has been found guilty of violating terms of his probation on tax evasion charges by not filing amended tax returns or making payments to the Internal Revenue Service, reports…