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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.
This could be the last year for the Annual Screen Actors Guild show, which will be held on Jan. 20, writes Nellie Andreeva at Deadline.com. Hollywood may have a single actors’ union by the end of 2011 that would replace…
Janet Jackson’s 2004 Super Bowl performance, during which she partially revealed a breast, is still being battled over by the Federal Communications Commission and CBS, reports B&C. The FCC, which is backed by the Justice Department, argues that broadcasters give…
FilmOn founder Alki David says he plans to sue CBS and its CNET tech Web site, alleging the site allows "illegal distribution of DRM [digital rights management] removal software as well as the illegal distribution of file sharing software with…
Sir Elton John and his partner David Furnish became parents on Christmas Day, when they had a son born to a California surrogate, reports UsMagazine.com. The baby boy, Zachary Jackson Levon Furnish-John, weighed 7 pounds, 15 ounces, the story says….
With a new show that features a teen who was first seen on MTV’s "16 and Pregnant," the network is now facing accusations that it’s promoting abortion, reports the New York Post. The show, called "No Easy Decision," features 19-year-old…
Cable-television operators won a major victory on Monday when the Ohio Supreme Court ruled that a sales tax on satellite-TV customers doesn’t violate the interstate commerce law, reports the Dayton Daily News. Satellite-TV customers must pay a 5.5% sales tax,…
The rumor that Google has asked Logitech to suspend production of its Google TV set-top box, the Revue, isn’t true, according to the company, reports the Los Angeles Times’ Technology Blog. The Revue has been advertised on television with commercials…
Bud Greenspan, the prolific filmmaker who was best known for his coverage of the Olympics, died Saturday at the age of 84, the AP reported. Greenspan had been suffering from Parkinson’s disease. For sixty years, he chronicled the greatest athletes…
Lindsay Lohan’s accuser in an alleged battery incident at the Betty Ford Center has decided not to pursue the case, the L.A. Times reports. Medical technician Dawn Holland changed her mind after previously insisting that Lohan be charged with battery…
With the star power provided by LeBron James, Kobe Bryant, Chris Bosh and Dwyane Wade, the Christmas Day NBA showdown between the L.A. Lakers and Miami Heat was ABC’s highest-rated holiday contest since 2004, reports TVbytheNumbers.com. The game logged a…