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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 overrun of the Giants-Packers game was enough to push Fox to a win in adults 18-49 on a night when NBC lost its NFL game to a snowstorm and the bulk of the prime-time schedule consisted of reruns, TVbytheNumbers.com…
Singer Teena Marie has died, possibly from a grand mal seizure while taking a nap, TMZ reports. She was 54. The R&B star had suffered other seizures, including a grand mal about a month before her death, the story reports….
Concert promoters smarting from feeble ticket sales in 2010 are poised to reduce prices in the new year, Rolling Stone reports. The 2010 summer touring season–a traditional boom time for the live music business–was marked by poor sales, empty seats…
Playboy founder Hugh Hefner has confirmed that he and his girlfriend, Playmate Crystal Harris, have gotten engaged, MTV reports. Hefner, 84, posted on his Twitter page on Dec. 24: "After the movie tonight, Crystal & I exchanged gifts. I gave…
Research firm SNL Kagan says 2010 was a good year for the business news cable channels, the New York Post reports. The market-leading business news network remains CNBC, which had an 11% rise from last year with expectations of $273…
Julian Assange, the embattled founder of WikiLeaks, has signed a $1.3 million deal involving publishers in the U.S. and the U.K. to write his autobiography, Digital Trends reports. The deal is for $800,000 from Alfred A. Knopf in the U.S….
The star of a hit CBS show is working out the details of a $30 million deal with the show’s producer, Warner Bros. Television, reports Deadline.com. The deal would give Simon Baker, star of “The Mentalist,” one more year added…
Comcast’s goal of getting government approval for its $30 billion merger with NBC Universal got a boost when Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski proposed to approve the deal–as long as the companies agree to conditions, the Los Angeles Times’…
Richard Chamberlain, who played the title role in television’s "Dr. Kildare" and himself only came out of the closet in 2003, tells The Advocate Magazine that he wouldn’t advise a "gay leading man-type actor to come out. "There’s still a…
New York’s local stations are preparing for some changes in their news teams starting Jan. 3, as one station prepares for an anchor to return and another gets ready for a new lead anchor, the New York Daily News reports….