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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.
Netflix announced today that it will offer a streaming only plan for $7.99 a month, CNNMoney reports. According to the article, "The new plan, priced at $7.99 per month, allows customers to instantly watch unlimited TV episodes and movies streamed…
The first actor cast in ‘Lost’ has been cast in J.J. Abrams’ lastest TV effort, reports Nellie Andreeva at Deadline.com. It’s Jorge Garcia, who played Hurley on "Lost." In the new show, a Fox pilot called "Alcatraz," Garcia will play…
Laurie Bembenek, a former Playboy bunny and convicted murderer whose story was twice the focus of television movies, has died, reports the New York Post. She was 52. Bembenek died from complications of hepatitis C and kidney failure, the story…
The executive producer of the ABC hit "Dancing witht the Stars," Conrad Green, "insists he’s shocked – shocked – to discover the Palin family could have such a polarizing effect on the American public, over a simple little dance-competition show,…
Is scripted programming on Friday evenings is doomed, following ABC’s non-scripted line-up securing top ratings for a second consecutive week? That’s the question Deadline.com’s Nellie Andreeva asks. Last week, "20/20" was the highest-rated Friday program, after the network’s "Primetime" won on…
ABC affilates are now making some of their commercial time available to ABC, B&C reports. Accroding to the article, "Affiliates will offer the network 16 units, mostly in prime. The first week involves The Bachelor, No Ordinary Family and The…
Mykalai Kontilai, the businessman who bought the 31-year old PBS-distributed "Nightly Business Report" in August, has big plans for the program, including negotiations for a daily radio show and talks to distribute the program into almost 200 countries, reports one of…
Capri Anderson, the woman who escorted Charlie Sheen on the night the actor trashed a pricey New York hotel room and ended up in the hospital, says that while Sheen was allegedly rude all night, she wasn’t scared until she…
A karaoke competition show on cable has been renewed, reports Deadline.com. CMT’s "The Singing Bee" will come back for season three, the report says. The karaoke singing competition is from Juma Entertainment and Gurin Co. and is hosted by Melissa Peterman,…