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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.
KTTV, a Fox owned-and-operated TV station in Los Angeles, has obtained a copy of the coroner’s report about the murder of film publicist Ronni Chasen. On Wednesday night, November 24th, during its newscast the station aired a segment based on what was in the…
Google wants to make its next fortune from apps, according to Business Insider. Primarily they will do it by "attracting more more mid-size businesses," the article says. The article adds, "According to Google Apps group product manager Rajen Sheth, who…
The final season of “The Oprah Winfrey Show,” with more than the usual share of big gets and special events, is a syndie hit, according to TVbytheNumbers.com, which reported numbers for syndication’s November sweeps. The show climbed to a 6.1…
Fox News host Bill O’Reilly was apparently not pleased by a joke aired on Sunday’s episode of “The Simpsons,” according to The Hollywood Reporter. The gag showed a Fox News helicopter emblazoned with the logo “Not Racist, But #1 With…
The team that reinvented "Pirates of the Caribbean," director Gore Verbinski and actor Johnny Depp, is reportedly collaborating on turning one of TV’s iconic characters, "The Lone Ranger," into a big-screen feature, reports Deadline.com. Not surprising, uber-producer Jerry Bruckheimer is…
ABC’s "Dancing With the Stars" was the top-rated show Monday night in the 18-49 demo, with CBS’s “Two and a Half Men” close behind, TVbytheNumbers.com reports. For the night overall, CBS came out on top in 18-49 with a 3.5…
A few weeks back it was rumored that one of the stars of “Seinfeld” might be lured back to television sooner than later, and today comes the official word that HBO has signed Julia Louis-Dreyfus to star in the pilot…
There’s slim to no chance that Fox will renew the ratings-challenged Will Arnett comedy "Running Wilde" for another season, but at least the network will air all 13 filmed episodes before the end of 2010, reports The Futon Critic. Fox…
With the curiosity factor gone, Sunday’s second episode of Sarah Palin’s TLC reality show, "Sarah Palin’s Alaska," lost almost half of the viewers who turned out for the show’s premiere a week earlier, according to Deadline.com. The show was down…
On of the supporting players on "Big Bang Theory" has gotten a sizable raise, reports Deadline.com. Simon Helberg, the actor who plays Howard Wolowitz on "The Big Bang Theory," has received a raise, with his per-episode salary more than tripling…