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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.
With "Glee" performing very nicely, thank you–up 38% in ratings in the 18-49 demo so far this year–Fox will not move it from its Tuesday night slot come January. Instead, "American Idol" will move to Wednesday and Thursday nights, Fox…
Tjhe president and CEO of the National Cable & Telecommunications Association announced today that he will be stepping down from his post, Multichannel News reports. Kyle McSlarrow, 50, who has served atop NCTA since March 2005, hopes to find a…
A study released this week by Nielsen concludes that U.S. residents are watching an average of more than 143 hours of TV each month, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The figure is “essentially flat compared to the same period a…
CBS edged out ABC in another close battle for Thursday night ratings supremacy, and once again it was the two networks’ powerhouse shows–CBS’s “Big Bang Theory” and ABC’s “Grey’s Anatomy”–leading the way, TVbytheNumbers.com reports. For the night, CBS came out…
Three shows have been renewed by the Syfy network, according to Entertainment Weekly. The shows are "Ghost Hunters International," "Hollywood Treasure" and "Fact or Fakes: Paranormal Files." “Ghost Hunters International" is the most successful of the three shows, drawing nearly…
Internet activist Julian Assange is being sought in connection with a rape case that has been under investigation in Sweden for three months, and Swedish authorities have issued a warrant for his arrest, The Wall Street Journal reports. Assange is…
First, MSNBC suspended Keith Olbermann (for two days) for political donations, and now the network has suspended another high-profile on-air personality for the same infraction, Deadline.com reports. This time it’s Joe Scarborough, the host of "Morning Joe," according to the…
A new animated pilot from ShadowMachine, which has been ordered by Comedy Central, is being planned as a showcase for animated shorts, reports Deadline.com. The project will be an umbrella program in which a variety of original animated comedy shorts…
The producer of ABC’s "This Week With Christiane Amanpour," Ian Cameron, has announced that he’s leaving the show, the AP reports. Cameron, who is married to Susan Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, is leaving ABC News entirely…
The working theory of the Beverly Hills police is that the murder of Ronnie Chasen "was planned in advance and not the result of road rage or a carjacking gone awry," report Daniel Miller and Bill Higgins in The Hollywood…