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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.
Both NBC and Fox benefited from NFL programming Sunday, with NBC finishing the night as the top network in the ratings, TVbytheNumbers.com reported. The story noted that the numbers are likely to change due to the nature of live sports…
The latest addition to HLN’s prime-time lineup is a noted reality TV doctor who is also an M.D. in real life. The network announced this morning that Dr. Drew Pinsky will be joining HLN with a new program set to…
TBS announced that its new Conan O’Brien talk show ranked No. 1 in young adults among late-night talk shows during its second week. The network crunched the numbers after complete Live + Same Day data became available for Nov. 11-15….
The upcoming syndicated talk show from CNN’s Anderson Cooper is getting off to a fast start as it locks in markets for an apparent fall 2011 launch, B&C reports. The one-hour show from the host of “Anderson Cooper 360” is…
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced that it has picked two co-hosts for the 83rd Academy Awards, scheduled to be broadcast Feb. 27. The hosts will be hot young stars Anne Hathaway and James Franco, E!…
When you’ve been the No. 1 daytime drama for 22 years in a row, you’re probably not sweating whether you’ll be given a renewal by the network. So it’s no surprise that CBS has picked up "The Young and the…
Makers of Google TV’s hardware cut prices for the new devices by as much as 25% over the weekend, which is either a sign that the service is in trouble just a month after its debut or merely a marketing…
One of the best-known and well-liked programming executives in the TV business has a new job. John Ford has been named President of Programming for the ION Media Networks. Ford was suprisingly pushed-out of Discovery Communications a year ago in…
ABC News’ Diane Sawyer is upset with her "ABC World News" producers having her in the wrong place when news breaks, reports the New York Post’s Page Six, attributing the item to a "source." According to the Post, "The source…
A satirical story from the Onion–with the headline "The Onion: Frustrated Obama Sends Nation Rambling 75,000-Word E-Mail"–appeared on Fox News’ Fox Nation section of its Website on Friday, apparently confusing some readers, reports TheWrap.com. Appearing alongside serious articles, such as…