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Chuck Ross

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 Complete List of Primetime TV Nominees for the 17th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards. Released Dec. 16th 2010

To see ALL of the nominees, movies followed by TV, please click here. PRIMETIME TELEVISION Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Movie or MiniseriesJOHN GOODMAN / “You Don’t Know Jack”Total nominations in this category:  1Previous Actors®:  0Total…

‘Hey, Turn the Effin Volume Down!’: It’s Now the Law that TV Broadcasters Have One Year to Make Sure Commercials Aren’t So Loud. We Think It Should Be Forever Known as the Streisand Statute

Television broadcasters and cable operators have one year to comply with the Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation Act (or CALM), after President Barack Obama signed the act into law, reports B&C. The law directs the Federal Communications Commission to regulate the…

Comcast-NBC Universal Deal Gets Support of Asian-American Groups

The proposed Comcast-NBC Universal merger has received support from five Asian-American organizations after Comcast agreed to expand Asian-American programming in a 16-page memorandum of understanding, reports Mediaweek. The groups include the Asian American Justice Center, Organization of Chinese Americans, Japanese…

Seeking Original Content, YouTube Is In Talks to Buy Video Production Company

Google’s YouTube is in talks to buy a video production company, The New York Times reports. The company YouTube is targeting is Next New Networks, a web video production house, the article says. The proposed price wasn’t disclosed and the companies…

How Much are 140 Characters Worth? Investors Say $3.7 Billion (Which Breaks Down to $26.4 Million Per Character)

How much are 140 characters worth? In the case of Twitter, which received a new round of funding led by venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, it’s now valued at $3.7 billion, Bloomberg News reports. The social-networking service,…

You Have To Admire the Risks They Take At AMC. Their Latest: Giving A Full Series Order To a Post-Civil War Western

The post-Civil War Western "Hell on Wheels" received a full season order from AMC, adding to the network’s line-up of genre series, reports the Los Angeles Times’ ShowTracker blog. The show is about a Confederate soldier who goes west to…

Three Weeks From Tonight. MTV. The Third Season. Return With Them. To Jersey. To the Shore. This is the Official First Preview

Jersey Shore – MTV Shows

Unexpectedly, Facebook Likely to More than Double Ad Revenue This Year, To About $2 Billion. It’s On the Same Revenue Pace as Google. Interesting, Since Google Had a Clear Ad Strategy, While Many Were Not Sure of Facebook’s Utility For Ads When It Started

Facebook will more than double its revenue this year, reaching $2 billion in ad sales, a number higher than projected earlier, reports Bloomberg News. Facebook’s sales last year were between $700 million to $800 million, and its earlier projected revenue for…

Time-Shifted Viewing Through DVRs Is Up

Time-shifted viewing through DVRs is up this season, writes our good friend Wayne Friedman in the MediaDailyNews. The article says, "Brad Adgate, senior vice president and corporate media director for Horizon Media, says throughout the season so far there are…

With Success of ‘Sing-Off’ on NBC, Producer Joel Gallen Signs First-Look Deal with Sony Pictures TV

Joel Gallen, the executive producer of the NBC series "The Sing-Off", has signed a one-year first-look deal with Sony Pictures TV, the studio that’s producing the hit singing competition show, reports Deadline.com. Gallen moved into television series with MTV’s reality…