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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.
MTV saw its ratings surge Thursday night as it brought back a popular reality show for its season premiere, Entertainment Weekly reported. The episode was watched by 8.4 million viewers. The show is “Jersey Shore,” which became the channel’s most-watched…
Joan Rivers and daughter Melissa Rivers say they’re through covering red carpet arrivals at awards shows, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Among the reasons they cite: Publicists have become too uptight about the insults that have been the mother-daughter team’s…
With this week’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas showcasing high-tech tweaks on the TV model such as Google TV, veteran industry reporter Tim Goodman, writing in The Hollywood Reporter, warns that the changes that are on the way for…
A new law in California may spell trouble for fake celebrity Twitter and Facebook accounts, reports EW.com’s PopWatch blog. The law prohibits impersonating another individual online for the reason of "harming, intimidating, threatening or defrauding a person," the story notes….
ABC launched a new season of “Wipeout” Thursday night and came away with a win for the night in the 18-49 demo, while CBS won the battle for most total viewers with a prime-time lineup of fresh sitcoms and dramas,…
The Queen of Soul, who is known to value her privacy, has been reluctant to talk about her recent health problems, but the one thing she did say in her latest interview is that the issue has been resolved, JET…
AT&T is cutting the price on Apple’s iPhone 3GS in half, offering the devices for $49, down from $99, for users on contracts, Bloomberg News reports. According to the article, the price cut goes into effect today, Jan. 7. However…
Oprah Winfrey was asked at the TCA Press Tour whether Anderson Cooper, who is working on a daytime show to debut this fall, could replace her, and Winfrey responded with an emphatic "no," reports the Los Angeles Times’ Show Tracker…
"ABC has made its first comedy pilot pickups this season, ordering "Man Up," from "100 Questions" creator Chris Moynihan and "Smothered," from Friends alums An"drew Reich and Ted Cohen" Deadline.com reports. According to the story, "The ABC Studios/Tagline-produced ‘Man Up’…
TVWeek Open Mic blogger Chuck Ross wins unexpected support from a media mogul in countering Oprah’s attack on today’s TV programming. Plus some more thoughts about OWN. To read this provocative blog entry, please click here.