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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.
The Memo: For nearly a year, we have worked hard to identify people from NBC Universal, Comcast and outside the two companies to form our new leadership team when the deal closes. Our goal has been to find people who…
Shares of Cablevision Systems hit a 52-week high Thursday after it said that it is once again considering separating its cable systems and cable networks operations – something it has mulled in different scenarios several times in recent years, reports…
One of the "Real Housewives of New York" has filed for Bankruptcy, in essence blaming actor John Travolta for her problems, the Wall St. Journal reports. [Some of the WSJ’s content is behind a fire wall, which means they ask for…
Given this season’s mediocre ratings, the television broadcast networks will keep around "many weaklings," while getting rid of seven of 21 new series by January, writes our friend Gary Levin at USA Today. Writes Levin, "Combined, the Big 4 networks…
At least one senator likes neither Fox News nor MSNBC, and wishes they’d both go away, reports Brian Stelter of The New York TImes. It’s Sen. Jay Rockefeller, a Democrat representing West Virginia. According to the article, here’s exactly what Sen….
With Bristol Palin’s continued success on "Dancing with the Stars" drawing complaints that the show is being swayed by voting from supporters of Sarah Palin, her mother, the show’s executive producer counters that the program’s voting system is "fair for…
Fox Broadcasting has decided who wil be its new president of ad sales,, replacing Jon Nesvig, who previoulsy said he will retire at the end of the year, reports Jon Lafayette at B&C. The new president of Fox ad sales will be Toby…
Hulu is reducing the price of its subscription service by 20%, heating up its competition with Netflix, reports Bloomberg News. Hulu Plus will now cost $7.99 per month, versus its pricing during the service’s trial period of $9.99 each month,…
ABC’s drama project "One Police Plaza" has tapped Angela Bassett to play New York City’s first female police commissioner on the show, reports Deadline.com. The project, from ABC studios and the studio-based Mark Gordon Co., is written by Linda Fairstein…