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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.
As expected, the return of NBA superstar LeBron James to Cleveland in a Miami Heat uniform was a big ratings draw for TNT, which earned its second-highest NBA overnight of the season, TVbytheNumbers.com reports. The game drew a 4.2 household…
All three seasons of an Emmy Award-winning drama will be rebroadcast on AMC beginning Dec. 8, with back-to-back episodes every Wednesday night, the cable network has announced. The show is “Breaking Bad,” and AMC will go back to the beginning,…
New York Daily News gossip columnists George Rush and Joanna Molloy have filed a $30,000 lawsuit against MTV, VH1, their parent Viacom and two production companies for breach of contract, reports Deadline.com. According to the suit, Rush and Molloy pitched…
With Howard Stern’s Sirius XM radio deal running out soon, rumor has it the shock jock will take his show to Apple’s iTunes. At least that’s the story that was circulating on the Web today, when Rolling Stone, BizJournals.com, the…
ESPN veteran David Berson has been hired by CBS Sports as executive vice president of CBS Sports and president of CBS College Sports Network, reports SportsNewser.com. In a statement, Sean McManus, CBS News & Sports president, said, “David’s fresh perspective…
WIth the latest twist in the Ronni Chasen murder investigation having been a suspect, or person of interest, killing himself before he could be questioned, police are still trying to figure out a motive for her murder, according to various…
Some truly terrific cult classic TV series–including "The Larry Sanders Show," "Freaks and Geeks’ and "Action." to just name three–will be part of a new comedy block debuting in January. They’ll all be on IFC and its 90-minute comedy block…
Joan Gillman, executive vice president of media sales for Time Warner Cable, told a congressional subcommittee that if the government implements any kind of "do not track" regulation preventing companies from tracking user behavior on theWweb, it could hurt the vibrancy…
NBC "has bought a half-hour, single-camera project from the actor-comedian [Steve Carell] based on his early days working as a mail carrier in Littleton, Massachusetts," reports Michael Ausiello at Deadline.com. Separately, Nellie Andreeva, also at Deadline.com, reports that Carell and…
Just days after winning the "Dancing With the Stars" competition on ABC, actress Jennifer Grey has revealed that she was dancing hurt and will now have to have surgery, according to TV Guide. Grey suffered a ruptured disc in her…