Chuck Ross

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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.

Want to Avoid Those Online Ads? YouTube Readies Skippable Ads–Where Advertiser Isn’t Charged

YouTube plans to introduce new advertising choices that will allow viewers to pick one of three different ads to watch–or to skip the ad altogether, in which case the advertiser isn’t charged, reports Irina Slutsky in Advertising Age. Called TrueView,…

Cartoon Net Cancels Show

Cartoon Network has decided not to pick up a second season of a show that was groundbreaking for the cable net, Deadline.com reports. The show is “Unnatural History,” the network’s first one-hour live-action drama series. The show, a sort of…

Final Two ‘Harry Potter’ Films Find a TV Home

Even if the weekend box office results for the penultimate "Harry Potter" film–"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1"–had not shattered records for the series, ABC Family would have probably purchased the rights to it and the final picture…

Syfy Reveals Plans to Burn Off Remaining Episodes of ‘Caprica’ After Campaign Fails to Save Show

Fans of the Syfy series "Caprica" conducted a campaign to save the show, only to have Syfy cancel it anyway. Today those fans have to be disheartened to learn that the network will eliminate the remaining unaired episodes in a…

Stars of NFL Dominate Sunday Ratings

Peyton Manning, Tom Brady, Michael Vick and Eli Manning were among the marquee stars of the National Football League who delivered big Nielsen ratings Sunday, according to TVbytheNumbers.com. NBC and CBS each benefited from football broadcasts, with NBC winning the…

More Uncertainty for NBC? Analyzing the Clues Contained in Comcast’s New Lineup of Execs

The new executive lineup for NBC Universal announced by Comcast is telling in a number of ways, writes Bill Carter in The New York Times. First, it shows that the cable division is the "crown jewel" of NBC Universal, according…

YouTube Readies New Ad Units That Users Can Skip–New Units Will Give Consumers Choice, Even if That Choice Is to Opt Out

By Irina Slutsky Advertising Age Whether it’s walking out of the room, fast-forwarding on a DVR or paying for premium cable, consumers are used to having choice with ads on TV. Soon, they’ll have a different kind of choice on…

DirecTV Apparently Won’t Be Saving Any More Canceled Network Shows

"Friday Night Lights" and "Damages" are the end of the line as far as DirecTV’s efforts to save canceled dramas from other networks, reports TVbytheNumbers.com. The story cites a Variety report indicating the powers that be at DirecTV have decided…

Some Frosting: Food Network Cancels Series After 10 Seasons on Air

The Food Network has canceled one of its signature shows after a 10-year run, reports The Hollywood Reporter, with a contribution from the Associated Press "Ace of Cakes," a reality show about Baltimore’s Charm City Cakes bakery, has been canceled, the article says. …

As Hollywood Remembers Ronni Chasen in Memorial Over the Weekend, A Report Surfaces that Chasen Herself Recently Thought She was Being Followed

An artilce by Hollie McKay on the Fox News website says that even as Hollwood was remembering publicist Ronnie Chasen formally in services over the weekend, a report surfaced that Chasen herself thought she was being followed in recent weeks. The…