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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.
The Screen Actors Guild said on Sunday that it’s investigating alleged financial impropriety by a former manager, reports the Los Angeles Times’ Company Town blog. According to the article, a person familiar with the investigation said the alleged impropriety involved…
Friends of murdered publicist Ronni Chasen say they’re concerned about the police investigation into the crime, noting that there are too many unanswered questions for them to be convinced the crime is solved, reports the Los Angeles Times’ Harriet Ryan…
Since Pepsi passed on a sponsorship of "American Idol" back when the singing competition was unknown to U.S. viewers, the soft-drink company doesn’t want to make the same mistake again, reports Deadline.com. With Simon Cowell gearing up for the U.S….
The stars are aligning to wrap up TNT’s acclaimed series "The Closer" next year. First, star Kyra Sedgwick’s contract will come to an end after season seven, which will begin in the spring of 2011. At the end of that…
A new show from J.J. Abrams and Fox has tapped veteran actor Sam Neill to star with Sarah Jones in the project about a team of FBI agents tracking down missing prisoners, reports Deadline.com. Neill will play Emerson Hauser, the chief…
CBS News writers will be getting an annual 2% pay increase for those working in television and radio on local and national levels in New York, Chicago, Washington and Los Angeles, reports the Los Angeles Times’ Company Town blog. The…
Over the next two years DirecTV plans on selling local ads in 50 markets, prognosticating that will bring in up to $400 millon in ad revenue, Multichannl News’ Todd Spangler reports. The ads will appear on about 50 channels, the…
For those in Southern California and in particular in the entertainment industry, the Ronni Chasen killing hit home. Now that Beverly Hills police have declared that they have essentially solved the case, TVWeek blogger Hillary Atkin reviews the latest twists…
Michael Patrick King, the creator of HBO’s "Sex & the City," has developed a new sitcom with comic Whitney Cummings called "Two Broke Girls,” which has been snatched up by CBS, reports Deadline.com. The story reports fevered bidding for this…
In a survey by Needham & Company asking which television networks viewers ”must have available online for you to turn off your TV subscription,” only one cable news network cracked the top 20, reports TVNewser.com. CNN was tied for 12th…