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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 soap opera star was the subject of an angry tweet by a sitcom star who apparently felt spurned when the soap star backed out of a cameo on the sitcom, Deadline.com reports. When Eric Braeden, star of the CBS…
Judging by the dismal ratings for ESPN’s broadcast of the 2010 Heisman Trophy presentation, most people either didn’t care or didn’t want to watch Auburn’s Cam Newton, the odds-on favorite to win, receive the honor, according to SportsNewser.com. The ratings…
Larry’ King’s final talk show on CCN after 25 years may best be remembered for its collection of awkward moments, from King’s mis-timed introduction of guest Bill Maher ("these words are not easy to say–Bill Maher is the host…") to…
A former star of "Melrose Place" was indicted in New Jersey on charges of aggravated manslaughter and assault by auto after she was involved in a deadly crash earlier this year, reports TMZ.com. Amy Locane, who played Sandy on the…
"Digital whistleblower and Wikileaks founder Julian Assange was Time’s readers’ choice to be the magazine’s 2010 Person of the Year with 382,206 votes, but [Time’s Managing Editor, Rick] Stengel said he considered the long-term impact of the Harvard-dropout-turned-social-network-mogul [Mark Zuckerberg]—not just…
With KCET no longer a PBS outlet in Los Angeles, one of the signature PBS shows will not be available to be seen by most Angelenos by tuning into public TV. But the show will still be able to be…
By Chuck Ross In between watching sports and last minute holiday shopping, we have a terrific movie recommendation for you to watch at home this weekend. With the death of Blake Edwards this week, we dove into his film oeuvre…
Local television advertising sales jumped by 31.7% in the third quarter compared with a year earlier, far outpacing network television ad sales, which grew at just 2.7%, reports B&C. The numbers come from a survey from TVB and Kantar Media,…
There’s a new showrunner coming on board for the sixth season of "Dexter," reports Nellie Andreeva at Deadline.com. The show’s executive producer Scott Buck will succeed Chip Johannessen, who ran the series last season, the article notes. The fifth season…
The runner-up in last season’s "American Idol," Crystal Bowersox, is on track to outsell the season’s champ, Lee DeWyze, in first-week album sales, the New York Post reports. Bowersox’s first album, "Farmer’s Daughter," sold as many as 50,000 copies in…