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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.
Univision Communications and Grupo Televisa have extended their long-term program license agreement through 2025, reports B&C. The companies also signed a program license agreement giving Televisa the rights to broadcast Univision content in Mexico, the story notes. The agreement completes…
Mary Alice White, the former housekeeper of one of the stars of Food Network, has confessed to stealing from her boss and has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for her crime, reports The Huffington Post. In court, White…
On a slow Monday night for the broadcast networks, NBC’s season finale of "The Sing-Off" and preview of a new sitcom failed to made much of a splash in the Nielsen overnights, reports TVbytheNumbers.com. But the combination was enough to…
When Pee-Wee Herman first made a big splash almost 30 years ago, it was thanks to an HBO special based on his club act. Now Herman’s latest big hit, the Broadway production of "The Pee-Wee Herman Show," will be broadcast…
Paris Hilton can’t seem to avoid drama, even though the latest incident presumably had nothing to do with her. She was among a group of passengers whose travel plans were disrupted today by a weapon scare on a plane at…
Lindsay Lohan has been named as a suspect in a criminal investigation into an incident at a rehab facility, TMZ.com reports, citing law enforcement sources. The investigation concerns an alleged battery against a Betty Ford staffer, who reportedly wants Lohan…
While his syndicated talk show is receiving good interest from television stations, Anderson Cooper’s prime-time program on CNN isn’t faring well with viewers, reports Nellie Andreeva at Deadline.com. 2010 is wrapping up as "Anderson Cooper 360’s" lowest-rated year ever in…
CBS and "Alan Berger, [Katie] Couric’s agent at Creative Artists Agency in Los Angeles, began talks in early December," reports Bloomberg News. The story notes, "Both sides recognize Couric’s salary must be reduced for her to remain at CBS, one…
Netflix Chief Executive Reed Hastings has publicly asked a hedge fund manager to stop placing bets against his company, reports Bloomberg News. Hastings wrote a posting on the Seeking Alpha Website responding to a report by Whitney Tilson, a co-founder…
As Simon Cowell readies a U.S. version of "The X Factor" for a fall debut, the U.K. show is facing an investigation from the country’s media regulator Ofcom after more than 4,000 complaints were made over dance routines from Christina…