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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.
Television comedy writer and producer Aron Abrams died Saturday at the age of 50, reports Deadline.com. Abrams, who wrote for "3rd Rock from the Sun," "Everybody Hates Chris," “King of the Hill” and "Grounded for Life," among other shows, was…
AT&T is planning rate hikes on the monthly pricing for its U-verse TV packages in February 2011, reports B&C. The hike for various packages will range from 2.4% to 10.2%, the article reports. The prices of regular monthly U-verse TV…
A reporter for the Orange County Register, Kevin Ding, has accused ESPN broadcaster Will Selva of stealing several phrases from his newspaper column, SportsNewser.com reports. Ding joked about the incident on his blog, saying it wasn’t his best lead-in column…
While the broadcast networks aired reruns and endured a dismal night of ratings earlier this week–and Spanish-language broadcaster Univision topped all the English-language broadcast nets in the key18-49 demo–cable was putting on its blockbuster show of 2010, according to The…
The upcoming broadcast of the Golden Globes may be the last unless dick clark productions and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association succeed in negotiating a new contract, reports TheWrap. The 2011 broadcast marks the end of the contract between the…
Nellie Andreeva at Deadline.com asks whether a game show curse is following the host of Fox’s "Million Dollar Money Drop," after the show flubbed the answer to a question that cost a couple $800,000. The story points out that host…
One of the stars of "The Sopranos" became a blizzard hero to a stuck motorist in his West Village neighborhood in Manhattan, reports the New York Post’s Page Six. Beefy actor James Gandolfini, who played Tony Soprano on the HBO…
Kids won’t be able to find out how to get to Sesame Street any longer from KCET-TV, which will air a whole new slate of children’s programming beginning Saturday, when it ends its PBS affiliation, reports Yvonne Villarreal in the…
A report from tech security company McAfee, cited in the Los Angeles Times’ Technology blog, says the focus of cybercriminals in 2011 will likely be newer devices such as Google TV, Internet-connected TV sets and Apple products such as iPads….
One of the big questions for Comcast after it closes on its merger with NBC Universal will be whether to bid at the International Olympic Committee’s auction for media rights to the 2014 and 2016 games, writes The New York…