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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.
Discovery Communications CEO David Zaslav says the company needs an incentive if it is to embrace the TV everywhere concept, writes our friend David Goetzl in MediaDailyNews. According to the article, "It may be a while and take some serious…
As FX President John Landgraf canceled "Terriers" he explained that the low ratings for the show were not the fault of the marketing campaign, reports Deadline.com According to the article, "A lot had been said about the marketing campaign for…
The brother and sister-in-law of comedian Dane Cook have been ordered to repay him $12 million, reports TV Guide. Cook’s half-brother, Darryl McCauley, and his wife, Erika McCauley, were accused of embezzling money from Cook when Darryl acted as Cook’s…
One of TVWeek Open Mic blogger Hillary Atkin’s favorite shows this season has been HBO’s "Broadwalk Empire." In her latest entry she explains why the show has been brilliant. And yes, there are spoilers galore if you haven’t seen the…
Oprah Winfrey has gone back to the 1800s for her latest book club selection. It’s a dual selection by the all-time master of popular fiction—and an author who Oprah said she hasn’t read before. On today’s show–Monday, Dec, 6, 2010–Oprah…
The latest addition to the Fox pilot "Outnumbered" is an actor who carved out a stoner identity as part of a popular counterculture comedy team in the 1970s before going on to a solid career in television and film, reports…
Neil Patrick Harris, one of the stars of CBS’s "How I Met Your Mother" and a veteran host of award shows–including the Tonys and the Emmys–will be adding another award gig to his resume, reports the AP. Spike TV announced…
The NFL delivered strong Nielsen numbers Sunday for both Fox, with its late game overrun, and NBC, with a prime-time showdown between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Baltimore Ravens, reports TVbytheNumbers.com. NBC easily won the night overall, finishing with a…
Larry Cohen, the filmmaker brother ("It’s Alive," many others) of murdered Hollywood publicist Ronni Chasen, thinks the man who killed himself when police went to question him about the murder probably had nothing to do with it,The New York Times…
The New York Times, in an editorial, called on the government to impose certain conditions if it is to approve Comcast’s takeover of NBC Universal, writes John Eggerton in Multichannel News. According to Multichannel, the Times’ editorial, published today, Monday,…