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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 Comcast pushing to have its take-over of NBC Universal finalized by year’s end, talks have intensified between Comcast and U.S. regulators, Reuters reports. The biggest issues concern net neutrality, program acquisition and program carriage, the article says. Says the…
Dan Rather will publish a memoir about his career in a book called "Summing Up" that’s due to be released in spring 2012,reports the New York Times’ Media Decoder blog. Rather, 79, said in a statement that "with the changing…
Real Estate Mogul Sam Zell, the real estate mogul who led an $8.2 billion leveraged buyout of Tribune in 2007 and became its chairman, said he’ll leave the company after it exits bankruptcy, reports CNBC. Zell told the cable business…
AMC has been raking in awards and critical praise for its original series in recent years, and now the network is going to try a different tack, according to The Hollywood Reporter. After succeeding with scripted series such as “Mad…
CBS’s comedy block led by "Two and a Half Men" helped push the Tiffany Network to a slim victory over ABC in the 18-49 demo Monday night, while ABC, behind “Dancing With the Stars,” was an easy winner in total…
Veteran Hollywood publicist Ronni Chasen was killed in a shooting in the early hours of Tuesday morning after attending an after-party for the premiere of the Cher movie “Burlesque,” the L.A. Times reports. Chasen, 64, was reportedly shot multiple times…
ABC announced Tuesday that Barbara Walters will have a post-Thanksgiving Day special in which she will interview President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, the AP reports. Walters will conduct the interview on Tuesday, Nov. 23, at the White House,…
The box office star best known as Beetlejuce in the film of the same name has signed a comprehensive cable development deal, Variety reports. [Note: Some Variety articles are behind a firewall and you may be asked to pay to see…
A talk show host who has already written three bestsellers has been given her own book imprint by her publisher, reports Mike Fleming at Deadline.com. The author is Chelsea Handler, who hosts E! Entertainment’s “Chelsea Lately.” Hachette Book Group USA’s…
CBS’s "Medium" has been teetering on the brink of cancellation since last year, but when the network slotted it into the new season, it seemed that the show had been given a reprieve. However, according to Entertainment Weekly, the star…