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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.
A new type of mobile-phone ad may soon hit your mobile device, reports The Wall Street Journal. (Note: The WSJ is behind a pay wall and not all readers may be able to access this article.) Called "intercept campaigning," the…
Rovi Corp., which provides interactive television guides for cable and satellite services, has agreed to buy Sonic Solutions, which provides streaming services of shows and movies, for $775 million, reports Bloomberg News. The goal of the combined company is to…
Netflix may be heading for a fall–at least in terms of its share price, according to The Wall Street Journal’s Brett Arends. (Please note that the WSJ is behind a pay wall and not all readers may be able to…
Nielsen Holdings may prove to be one of the big initial stock offerings of 2011, as the media-measurement company is preparing for a $1.7 billion IPO as early as January, CNBC.com reports. Nielsen has been waiting for more than six…
The East Coast blizzard is earning all kinds of cutesy nicknames, such as the "brrricane," but the result for TV is that Sunday’s Philadelphia Eagles-Minnesota Vikings game was postponed until Tuesday and local national TV news reporters and crews have…
Deadline.com reports that ABC’s rebroadcast of the Jim Carrey film "Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas" won Thursday night as the highest-rated program with viewers between the ages of 18 and 49. ‘The Grinch" earned a 2.1 rating with…
As Los Angeles-area residents prepare for a shift in their local PBS outlet, the programming choices made by KOCE-TV, the Orange County station that will become the city’s main PBS outlet on Sunday, are raising some eyebrows, reports Elizabeth Jensen…
Nielsen research shows that wealthier consumers tend to be users of digital-video recorders, reports MediaPost.com’s MediaDailyNews. Adults in homes with incomes of $75,000 or more account for almost half of all DVR users, the story says. And adults in homes…
By Chuck Ross TVWeek has spoken to Arthur Fry, the retired 3M employee who is the co-inventor of the Post-it, and his history of the Post-it is in direct contradiction to the written statement made Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2010, by…
The first spinoff of "Jersey Shore" has been announced–and the star isn’t Snooki or The Situation, reports the New York Daily News. DJ Pauly D has scored the first spinoff of MTV’s hit show, the story notes. He beat out…