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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 cost to former "Frasier" star Kelsey Grammer to end his marriage to Camille–currently starring as one of Bravo’s "Real Housewives of Beverly Hills"–will be a whopping $50 million, reports TMZ.com. Their 13-year marriage did not include a pre-nup, exposing…
On a Monday night when the major broadcast networks aired nothing but reruns and settled for subpar viewer totals, Spanish-language broadcaster Univision was able to pull off an outright win for the night in the adults 18-49 demo, TVbytheNumbers.com reports….
In a new poll by real estate marketplace Zillow.com asking Americans who they would want living next door to them, the least desirable neighbors are the people in the reality TV series "Jersey Shore," reports Reuters.com. The person they would…
Oscar-winning director Ron Howard plans to adapt Stephen King’s seven-part novel "The Dark Tower" as a series of feature films and a television show, reports The Washington Post. Howard has been working on the big project with producer Brian Grazer…
After months of speculation about his status at MSNBC, both the network and political reporter/anchorman David Shuster confirmed today that Shuster is no longer with the company, The Huffington Post reports. MSNBC suspended Shuster indefinitely in April, reportedly because he…
Sarah Palin used Sunday’s episode of TLC’s "Sarah Palin’s Alaska" to "refudiate" what the Oxford University Press called 2010’s word of the year, reports the New York Daily News. The former governor of Alaska complained to her husband on the…
According to a forecast from media research forecaster Futurescape, in five years almost 40% of televisions sets produced for the U.S. market will have Internet connections and services, reports MediaPost’s MediaDailyNews. The forecast indicates that about 43 million U.S. television…
The star of a cable reality show was arrested and placed in an Indiana jail for an alleged attack on the father of her child, reports TMZ.com. Amber Portwood, the star of MTV’s “Teen Mom,” allegedly attacked Gary Shirley three…
The couple wrongly bumped off Fox’s "Million Dollar Money Drop" aren’t sure whether they’ll accept the show’s offer to return, the New York Post reports, adding that the show might not even be around for a second season. Gabe Okoye…
Apple is accused in a lawsuit filed Dec. 23 of allowing applications for iPhones and iPads to send users’ personal information to advertising networks without the users’ consent, reports Bloomberg News. The complaint was filed in federal court in San…