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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.
Bristol Palin, a finalist on “Dancing With the Stars,” tells E! Online that support from the Tea Party isn’t keeping her on the show. Instead, she says it’s her own hard work that’s doing the trick. "I work my butt…
Viewers watching PBS’s broadcast of Tina Fey’s acceptance speech for the Mark Twain prize may not have seen her full comments, reports New York Magazine’s Vulture blog. According to the blog, viewers didn’t get to hear her make some additional…
The producers of "South Park," including Viacom and Comedy Central, are being sued for allegedly stealing a video from YouTube, reports the Hollywood Reporter’s THR, Esq. The video in questions, "What What In the Butt)" is sung by Samwell, was produced…
Sarah Palin’s tweet that included a word that previously did not exist has beat out the term "gleeks" and other words to become the New Oxford American Dictionary’s 2010 ‘word of the year,’ according to The New York Times’ Bits…
NBC shuffled its primetime schedule, including moving Thursday night’s "30 Rock" to 10 p.m., reflecting the network’s concern about its ratings in the 10 p.m. slot, reports Bill Carter in the New York Times .Thursdays will add "Perfect Couples" at…
"Sarah Palin’s Alaska" broke TLC’s ratings records, with the debut drawing 5 million viewers, reports THR’s Live Feed blog. That made the first episode, aired on Sunday night, the most watched program debut in TLC’s history, the story notes. TLC,…
Steve Jobs and Apple have finally landed The Beatles for the iTunes store. That’s the big annoucement Apple made moments ago at 7 a.m. PT. Beatles tunes will sell for $1.29 each. The Beatles and their Apple label (no relation to…
Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt had some damning words for the top broadcast networks during a keynote speech at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, reports Mediaweek. Schmidt portrayed the broadcast networks as standing in the way of innovation…
Facebook is introducing an email service for its users, bringing it in steeper competition with Google, Yahoo and Microsoft, reports Bloomberg News. All users will receive an @facebook.com email address, Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said on Monday. The new…
Senator Bernie Sanders, an Independent from Vermont, has written a letter to the Federal Communications Commission’s five commissioners in which he asks them to block the NBC Universal-Comcast merger,reports Bill Carter in the New York Times’ Media Decoder blog. "The…