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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.
Sarah Palin, LeBron James, Justin Bieber, Betty White, Jennifer Lopez and the cast of MTV’s ‘Jersey Shore’ have something in common–they are all among Barbara Walters’ “10 Most Fascinating People of 2010,” ABC News reports. Walters revealed most of the…
CBS News announced today that it is making big changes to the “Early Show,” including replacing the anchors, Maggie Rodriguez and Harry Smith, with the Saturday anchors, Chris Wragge and Erica Hill, according to The New York Times. Marysol Castro,…
Plans for the pricey Kardashian Prepaid MasterCard have apparently screeched to a halt after the card was widely criticized, ABCNews.com reported. Among the issues that alarmed the critics: the card’s hefty $99.95 annual fee. A lawyer for Kim, Khloe and…
The host of a popular cable news show called in to her show last night to explain that her week-long absence was due to an emergency surgical procedure that may have been cancer, reports TVNewser.com. HLN personality Nancy Grace explained…
Dan Aykroyd, one of the original stars of "Saturday Night Live" and half of the Blues Brothers with John Belushi, is scheduled to make a TV appearance that might be seen as a sort of Blues Brothers reunion, Entertainment Weekly…
The next tech company to jump into delivering a television service may be Microsoft, which has held talks with television networks to create a subscription-based TV service on its Xbox video game console, reports Reuters. The service would compete with…
This is pretty wild–a TV show that has become part of the popular lexicon over the past 20 years is entering broadcast syndication for the first time ever. Law & Order" has been sold by NBC Universal Domestic Television Distribution…
Shares of Netflix hit a record $200 on Monday, Nov. 29, 2010, giving the online-video and DVD rental service entry into an exclusive club of companies with expensive shares and high market value,reports Bloomberg News. Netflix is now one of…
Ryan Seacrest has expanded his deal with Clear Channel Communications, according to a number of media outlets. The New York Times reports that the new deal extends Seacrest’s contract for three years and is worth $60 million. According to the…
Houston station KIAH-TV will debut a novel news format in January designed by Lee Abrams, the former Tribune Co. chief innovation officer who resigned in October after sending an inappropriate company-wide email, reports the Houston Chronicle. In a series of…