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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.
With Los Angeles TV station KCET leaving PBS, talk show host Tavis Smiley has had to find a new PBS staton to host his show. He is shifting the co-producer of the weeknight PBS show to WNET.org starting Jan 1, 2011, reports…
The new Apple TV, available just since October, will hit sales of over one million this week, the company has announced. Here’s the take on this news by Jay Yarow of Business Insider: Apple "probably wants to rub Apple TVs…
Is Jeff Gaspin about to roar again? Could be. "Gaspin, who will soon exit NBC once its acquisition by Comcast Corp. is complete, would join several other experienced Hollywood hands on the MGM board, including former Pixar Chief Financial Officer…
Samsung has a new line of Internet-enabled TV sets, and ESPN will allow the sets to carry its popular Scorecenter mobile app, reports Mediaweek. According to the article, Samsung "has introduced the Samsung Apps store—essentially a TV version of Apple’s…
Keith Olbermann ended his self-imposed exile from Twitter, meaning that the host of MSNBC’s "Countdown" missed out on just three days of tweeting, reports the Los Angeles Times’ ShowTracker blog. The story points out that Olbermann’s Twitter exile lasted about…
After speculation that Hulu would raise money through an initial stock offering, those plans are now on hold, as its executives and board members weigh the service’s next steps, reports the Los Angeles Times’ CompanyTown blog. [The Wall St. Journal…
Tracy Morgan had a kidney transplant earlier this month and will miss taping some episodes of NBC’s "30 Rock" while he recuperates, reports EW.com’s InsideTV blog. Morgan’s absence will be written into the show as his character having had a…
Here are the new rules on Internet access that the Federal Communications Commission is expected to approve on Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2010, according to the Washington Post. Says the article, "Under the regulations, companies that carry the Internet into American…
One of the actors in one of the best sitcoms on TV in the mid 1970s through the early 1980s has died, Deadline.com reports. Steve Landesberg, who only turned 65 last month, has died of cancer, Deadline reports. A stand-up comic,…